The world is on the verge of disastrous climate change. This fact is well established. Why exactly are we supposed to rejoice at the news of more fossil fuel reserves?
The thing we need is for people to stop countering the change out of their short-term interest in lining their own pockets.
Not until we have an order-of-magnitude breakthrough in battery tech or some new form of storage
Germany raised it's electricity price almost 3 times since it started it's riddiculous renewable energy bs and they still are only ~25% renewables (And they offshored their heavy, energy intensive industry that just packed up and moved to China, to happily pollute even more than before)
There you have it. This is a viable alternative that's safe, and green.
Germany did exactly the wrong thing IMO. They should've expanded their nuclear capacity instead of shutting off perfectly good plans and starting to pollute the world (proxying through China, as you say).
Also, I thinking there's enough good momentum towards use of alt energy resources, that we're going the right direction.
The scientific consensus is that global warming is real. Climate change is happening now. The debate is about the details: how much warming there will be, how fast, and what the effects will be. This is a normal part of science, and how it's supposed to work. Regardless of the details, at this point, it is pretty clear by now that we are screwed even if we aren't quite sure how badly.
As far as I can tell, the only spin comes from idiot politicians invested in the status quo.
What, you thought this community was better? That smart people are smart?
Sorry - smart people are stupid too - their mistakes are just bigger. Who do you think designed the nazi war machine, idiots? Was Speer a dullard?
No. intelligent people believe just as much stupid crap as the next man. They choose to ignore their education in favour of emotion.
Yarr, down she goes. Creatures which dwell under rocks dislike the light.