...is their confusion as to what a fact might be.
There are many sources of facts about coal consumption readily available, for instance, from the International Energy Agency. I refer to these numbers frequently in my writings here.
There are also many references to the scale of the expensive and useless so called "renewable energy" scam both in money squandered, which also amounts to trillions of dollars and in units of energy. The unit of energy is the Joule. On a macroscopic scale the SI prefix is used, i.e. the Exajoule.
Anyone interested in "facts" can look these numbers up readily.
It is also easy to look up how fast the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide is rising. I've posted the data here from the well documented, scientifically rigorous analytical chemists who work at the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory, many times, multiple times in the last few months as the disaster accelerates. The Observatory is of course threatened, but the data collected up to now is unambiguous.
Of course one does not need to be a rocket scientist like say one time Nazi Werner von Braun to understand what so called "renewable energy" advocacy is all about. It takes a minimal level of intelligence, some honesty (generally lacking in cultists), and readily available information a 5th grader could find in seconds of googling, to answer the following question:
Did Germany phase out climate change gas free energy, nuclear energy, or coal when it embraced solar and wind crap?
One would need to be intellectually weak or totally dishonest to claim they phased out coal. They embraced coal. The German carbon intensity for electricity is a disgrace. All future generations will pay for this decision to kill people.
I am very amused when cultists want to lecture me on what a "fact" might be, particularly when they offer "crocodile tears" bullshit about coal, about which they obviously couldn't care less. I'm unimpressed.
So called "renewable energy" was not originally embraced because of concern about climate or fossil fuels. That's a dishonest add on. It was embraced to attack nuclear energy, thus killing people and ultimately the planet in service to fear and ignorance.
Have a nice evening.