by Valerie Richardson
Washington Times
Report says climate pledges, production ‘dangerously out of sync’
The world may be mired in an energy crunch, but the United Nations had a message Wednesday for major producers: Stop delivering so much coal, oil and natural gas.
The 2021 Production Gap Report found that the 15 biggest producers are expected to generate by 2030 more than double the amount of fossil fuels consistent with meeting the Paris agreement’s goal of keeping global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
The report by the U.N. Environment Programme and research institutes also said that global oil and gas output is expected to increase over the next two decades, with coal declining only slightly, which would widen the “production gap” between fossil-fuel development and the Paris climate benchmark…
Steve Milloy, JunkScience.com founder and senior policy fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, said that the “current global energy crisis shows why demand for fossil fuels will not decrease in the foreseeable future.”
“Solar, wind and other green-tech junk aren’t cheaper and don’t work well enough at this point to power growing populations and economies,” he said.
Mr. Milloy, part of former President Trump’s EPA transition team, also said the annual report has become “exceedingly propagandistic in nature.”
“Previous editions contained frank and highlighted assessments of total human emissions and the fact that emissions are increasing with no end in sight,” Mr. Milloy said. “That information has been dropped from this year’s report.”…
