INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY 2016 REPORT ON KEY ENERGY STATISTICS
IMPORTANT POINTS FOR THE CLIMATE DEBATE
Contributed by Robert Lyman © 2016
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is perhaps the premier international authority in terms of collecting data on world energy supply and demand and producing analysis for policy makers. It posts its data online, and each year publishes a report on “key energy statistics”. The following, from the 2016 IEA report, are some notable statistics that call into question the theses that the countries of the world are dedicated to reducing fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions and that wind and solar energy sources will soon replace coal, oil and natural gas.
- The world total primary energy supply by fuel rose steadily from about 6,100 million tonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe) in 1971 to about 13,700 Mtoe by 2014.
- In 2014, the shares of primary energy supply by energy source were:…
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