Breakdown of Carbon Emissions by Source; 2003-2023
Recently in this space, Hatrack, posted about the Global Carbon Budget Project here: University Of Reading Study Projects Fossil Fuel Emissions Up Another 0.8% In 2024 @ 37.4 Billion Tons
Happily I was able to follow links (with Google Scholar assistance) to the full report, which is now under review before final publication:
Global Carbon Budget 2024
As is the case with the Lancet study of Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (Lancet Volume 396, Issue 10258, 17–23 October 2020, Pages 1223-1249), which I often post to show how many people are killed each year, as a result of the popularity of antinukism, by fossil fuel waste, (aka "air pollution" ), about 7 million, the authorship of the Global Carbon Budget is international and large, as any serious global study must be.
Data pages in support of the vast undertaking are here: The Global Carbon Project's fossil CO2 emissions dataset
I have downloaded files from this data set. For the purposes of putting the data up here, I used some Excel functions, including split screens, to make the page fit into a simple graphic, without any changes to the data itself, to be posted here:
We are now burning more coal, more gas, and more oil than ever and dumping the waste directly into the planetary atmosphere. Over the years here, I've heard lots of wishful thinking concerning the belief that coal use was being phased out, often attributed to so called "renewable energy" when, as the graphic shows, the temporary decline of coal in the mid 2010's (excluding the Covid outbreak) is almost certainly connected with a switch to the dangerous fossil fuel natural gas.
Coal is filthy, as is natural gas and petroleum, but they are reliable. The only form of energy that is both reliable and carbon dioxide free is the much maligned nuclear energy, which, as will be no surprise to anyone familiar with my writings, I regard as the last, best hope of humanity.
The often predicted so called "renewable energy" nirvana did not come, is not here, and won't come. The coinage I prefer to use for this is "Godotian." In the play, those waiting for Godot consider suicide when Godot doesn't come, suicide by hanging. The wait for the so called "renewable energy" nirvana is hanging all of us, and indeed the future of the entire planet.
Don't worry. Be happy. Buy stuff. Be sure to get your Christmas shopping in.
Happy holidays.