Andrew Dessler is a professor of atmospheric sciences and the director of the Texas Center for Climate Studies at Texas A&M University. He recently published an op-ed piece for thethat leaves no room to doubt the fossil fuel industry is using every trick in the book to slow down, halt, or reverse the renewable energy revolution. He says that renewables are now clearly the cheapest source of electricity, which should mean they are pushing oil, methane, and coal out of the energy market.
Fossil fuel interests also donate piles of money to sympathetic politicians who then make false claims about renewable energy and push oil and gas on their constituents, even when renewable energy is cheaper. After the Texas blackout in 2021, which was caused in part by the failure of the natural gas system, politicians blamed renewable energy, and have since argued that more natural gas is needed to strengthen the state electrical grid. The Texas grid could certainly be made more robust.
In the current US grid, methane gas provides the primary balance for intermittent wind and solar, and we can keep using it that way — in very limited quantities — when we need it. Oneshowed that we could operate a grid that is 90% clean energy and 10% natural gas by 2035, which would produce energy for a cost similar to that of a grid with a continuation of current policies.Dessler warns that fossil fuel interests want to dictate how school children learn about the environment.
“Given that we’ve seen an unprecedented jump in global warmth over the last 11 months, it is not surprising to see worsening climate extremes so early in the year,” said University of Michigan environment dean Jonathan Overpeck. “If this record pace of warming continues, 2024 will likely be a record year of climate disasters and human suffering.”
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