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In his 1977 energy address, President Jimmy Carter called for a third energy transition based on strict conservation, renewed use of coal, and the development of permanent renewable energy sources like solar power.
In May, 63% of all new cars sold in China were plug-in vehicles.
In China, 56% of electricity is generated from coal.
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz asserts that on a global level, the rise of electric cars has effectively shifted mobility's energy source from oil to coal, rather than decarbonizing it.
Negative emissions technologies have become a central component of all net-zero scenarios published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The global food system, from deforestation to waste management, is responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz asserts that climate models showing simultaneous GDP growth and emissions reduction are not credible because they rely on unproven technologies like negative emissions.
Net-zero climate scenarios rely on approximately 10 gigatons of negative emissions, which accounts for about 25% of the total mitigation effort.
Historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, in his book 'More and More and More', argues that the world has never truly transitioned from one energy source to another, but has instead only added new fuel sources on top of existing ones.
A 1953 report by Palmer Coslett Putnam for the US Atomic Energy Commission discussed climate change and the limits of CO2 in the atmosphere as a key argument in favor of nuclear energy.
The 1953 report by Palmer Coslett Putnam included a graph illustrating the projected rise of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, linking it to the greenhouse effect from burning fossil fuels.
Nuclear lobbyists in the 1960s envisioned the energy transition as a process that would take place over three to four centuries, not the three to four decades discussed today.