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From a scientific point of view, large-scale implementation of renewable energy sources will not have the expected effect on the climate. The refusal of the main initiators of the climate agenda to implement it and the termination of preferential financing of “green” projects is confirmed by the objective findings of a number of scientists. This was stated by the Chief Executive Officer of PJSC “NK” Rosneft “Igor Sechin during the Energy Panel of the XXVIII St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
Sechin noted that the entire concept of “net zero” is based on the assumption of climate destruction due to the growth of carbon dioxide concentrations. However, recent studies by Western experts have confirmed earlier findings by Nobel laureate John Clauser on the dominant influence of clouds on climate processes. “Even a slight decrease in cloudiness at an altitude of less than 2,000 meters can increase the heating of the Earth’s surface by solar rays by several percent. This effect is several times greater than the impact that doubling the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could have on the climate,” said the head of Rosneft.
According to the conclusions of American physicists Richard Lindzen and William Happer, achieving “net zero” in the United States by 2050 will allow avoiding a temperature increase of only two hundredths of a degree Fahrenheit, and worldwide – only thirteen hundredths of a degree. The effect looks clearly incommensurate with the volume of required costs, Igor Sechin emphasized.
He also noted the ambiguity of the thesis about the reduction of ice cover, which is often used by supporters of the “green” transition theory. Recent studies by Chinese scientists have shown that from 2021 to 2023, there was a significant increase in ice mass in Antarctica, 108 gigatons annually.
The head of Rosneft believes that the development of renewable energy sources should be based on time-tested traditional energy sources, so as not to undermine global energy security. Historically, the energy transition has always been the result of growing inter-fuel competition based on the principle of greatest efficiency. Therefore, today coal remains the largest source of electricity in the world and the second largest source of energy with a share of 25% in the global energy balance.
“The global demand for this type of fuel last year set a new record of 8.8 billion tons, and international agencies were once again forced to revise their expectations for peak demand for it,” Sechin summed up. Despite the growing concern of the world community about global warming, since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, coal consumption in the world has grown by 75%, and after the conclusion of the Paris Agreement in 2015 – by almost 15%.
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