We fear this claim might not be entirely true

Bill McKibben tells us that:

We now live on a planet where the cheapest way to produce power is to point a sheet of glass at the sun

If it is true then that’s excellent, we’ve solved climate change. All we have to do now is wait. As extant plants come to the end of their working life they will - entirely naturally, with no other incentive nor action needed - be replaced by sheets of glass pointed at the sun.

As no one at all does in fact believe this to be true - not even Bill McKibben - then we do have to assume that the statement is either not true or not believed by anyone. Possibly not believed by anyone on the basis that it’s not true.

The background here is the pause in granting new LNG export licences in the US. Something we dealt with back a bit. It’s actually an internal to the US argument over who gets the profits from fracking, nothing else.

It is possible to go a step further in analysing this claim. So, all those/us Europeans eager to buy this American LNG that isn’t to be exported. Why are we eager to buy it? It has to be because it’s cheaper than putting up sheets of glass pointed at the sun, doesn’t it? And if that’s the only possible explanation for the demand for the LNG then that statement about sheets of glass cannot be true, can it?

As we’ve been pointing out for a couple of decades now there are interesting things to say and discuss about climate change. But assertions of untruths don’t help.