Still a fossil fuel world. If subsidy fatigue sets in for wind power, solar power, ethanol, electric vehicles, legacy nuclear plants continue to retire, carbon-based energies could reach, even exceed 90 percent of global primary energy consumption
After decades of climate-related debate and policy, it's still a fossil-fuel world. And judging from domestic and global politics, this will continue.
A base year to judge energy trends is 1988, the year climate scientist James Hansen sounded the alarm about the enhanced greenhouse effect, the result of manmade emissions of carbon dioxide and other warming gases.
