{"id":389076,"date":"2025-07-16T17:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=389076"},"modified":"2025-07-16T17:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:26:23","slug":"oil-gas-professionals-are-not-energy-transition-experts-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=389076","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOil\/gas professionals are NOT energy transition experts\u201d \u2026 Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"389099\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=389099\" 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href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2025\/07\/15\/oil-gas-professionals-are-not-energy-transition-experts-really\/\">Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guest \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobdylan.com\/songs\/subterranean-homesick-blues\/\">You don\u2019t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows<\/a>\u201d by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/author\/debunkhouse\/\">David Middleton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qX06DYfLtXo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u201cJul 9, 2025<br><em>Journalist Markham Hislop discusses one of his pet peeves: oil and gas professionals, especially engineers, who think because they have expertise in one area of the energy system that they are experts in ALL things energy.<\/em>\u201c<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The video is mind-numbing. It\u2019s just a closeup of Journalist Markham Hislop droning on and on about oil &amp; gas professionals not being qualified to discuss the energy transition because they aren\u2019t experts in energy transitions. Guess what Markham?&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/journalist\">Journalists<\/a>&nbsp;aren\u2019t experts in anything, with the occasional exception of journalism..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regarding the energy transition (or lack thereof): You don\u2019t need to be an \u201cenergy transition expert\u201d or even an \u201coil and gas professional\u201d \u2026 You just need to know how to download data and use Excel.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"436\" data-attachment-id=\"389080\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=389080\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-458.png?fit=720%2C436&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,436\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-458.png?fit=720%2C436&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-458.png?resize=720%2C436&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-389080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-458.png?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-458.png?resize=300%2C182&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Figure 1:\u00a0<strong>Data values:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/totalenergy\/data\/browser\/index.php?tbl=T01.03#\/?f=A\">Primary Energy Consumption by Source<\/a><em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/totalenergy\/data\/monthly\/xls\/Table_D1.xlsx\">Estimated primary energy consumption in the United States, selected years, 1635\u20131945<\/a>. Converted from quadrillion Btu to millions of barrels of oil equivalent (BOE).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s zero in on fossil fuels and renewables:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"436\" data-attachment-id=\"389083\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=389083\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-460.png?fit=720%2C436&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,436\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-460.png?fit=720%2C436&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-460.png?resize=720%2C436&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-389083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-460.png?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-460.png?resize=300%2C182&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Figure 2:\u00a0<strong>Data values:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/totalenergy\/data\/browser\/index.php?tbl=T01.03#\/?f=A\">Primary Energy Consumption by Source<\/a><em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/totalenergy\/data\/monthly\/xls\/Table_D1.xlsx\">Estimated primary energy consumption in the United States, selected years, 1635\u20131945<\/a>. Converted from quadrillion Btu to millions of barrels of oil equivalent (BOE).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Figures 1 and 2 are modified versions of graphs I used in this July 4 post:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2025\/07\/04\/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident-that-there-is-no-energy-transition\/\">\u201cWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that\u201d there is no energy transition!<\/a>\u00a0I was inspired to convert quadrillion Btu to something more American by this comment:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"648\" data-attachment-id=\"389087\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=389087\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-462.png?fit=951%2C853&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"951,853\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-462.png?fit=723%2C648&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-462.png?resize=723%2C648&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-389087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-462.png?w=951&amp;ssl=1 951w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-462.png?resize=300%2C269&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-462.png?resize=768%2C689&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Figure 3: D\u2019Oh!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"525\" data-attachment-id=\"389088\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=389088\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-463.png?fit=838%2C608&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"838,608\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-463.png?fit=723%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-463.png?resize=723%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-389088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-463.png?w=838&amp;ssl=1 838w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-463.png?resize=300%2C218&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-463.png?resize=768%2C557&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Figure 4: Did you know?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an oil &amp; gas professional, I don\u2019t know why I never thought to do this before. 100 quadrillion Btu might as well be eleventy gazillion joules under the sea\u2026 It\u2019s an unrelatable quantity. Now, 16 billion barrels of oil (or BOE) is something I can wrap my head around!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the extent that there has been an energy transition, it was from renewables to fossil fuels. It occurred very rapidly from 1860 to 1920.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"438\" data-attachment-id=\"389090\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=389090\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-464.png?fit=2048%2C1241&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1241\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-464.png?fit=723%2C438&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-464.png?resize=723%2C438&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-389090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-464.png?resize=1024%2C621&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-464.png?resize=300%2C182&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-464.png?resize=768%2C465&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-464.png?resize=1536%2C931&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-464.png?resize=1200%2C727&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-464.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-464.png?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Figure 5:\u00a0<strong>Data values:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/totalenergy\/data\/browser\/index.php?tbl=T01.03#\/?f=A\">Primary Energy Consumption by Source<\/a><em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/totalenergy\/data\/monthly\/xls\/Table_D1.xlsx\">Estimated primary energy consumption in the United States, selected years, 1635\u20131945<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s the full transcript of the video. I guessed at the paragraph breaks and I did not correct spelling errors or edit out the Uh\u2019s and Um\u2019s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I want to talk about a pet peeve of mine. This has bothered me for years and years and years and that is oil and gas professionals who think and claim to be experts on the energy transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now just because you\u2019ve got ex expertise in the oil and gas industry which is basically uh extracting and transporting molecules to you know uh refineries or to natural gas plants or whatever it is. uh that that somehow that makes you an expert on all things energy. Well, I\u2019m here to that is not the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I\u2019m going to illustrate my point with the dispute that I got into last uh last August with uh some folks who put together a course at the University of Alberta. So, somebody sent me a link to this course and it was on the energy transition and they said, you know, take a look check it out uh because we do a lot of energy transition work and reporting here at uh at Energy Media. So I did and I wrote a column and I said this course absolutely stinks. It\u2019s terrible and the instructor uh who shall go unnamed to protect the guilty is not qualified to do it. And so the reason the ar here\u2019s the argument though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uh this course posited that there\u2019s only two ways of looking at the energy system. The one is sort of the oil and gas forever the OPEC view which is you know oil and gas is going to be around forever. or the global south is going to increase uh consumption and whatever new energy sources uh are added like wind and solar uh it\u2019ll be added to not it won\u2019t displace existing uh energy from oil gas and primarily and from coal as well I guess and then the other worldview is climate change which is basically the world is you know the environmental groups climate groups argue this the the world is burning up we need to phase out oil and gas, switch to renewable energy and and uh and do away with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, and so the course basically argued that no, what we really need to do, what the energy transition means is decarbonizing oil and gas, reducing the emissions, eliminating the emissions from the production of oil and gas. Not the consumption, not the the actual combustion say of of gasoline in a internal combustion engine, which is where 80% of the emissions are produced. It\u2019s decarbonizing the production of these of those molecules. And what they\u2019ve what their cardinal sin here and I made this really clear in the column is that there is a third way of looking at the world and that is that uh electricity produced now primarily from a variety of sources uh wind solar hydro nuclear advanced geothermal all sorts of things. Uh and also coal and and natural gas when that\u2019ll be that\u2019ll take years before decades before we get rid of those entirely. But primarily you create electricity and then you have a whole new set of new technologies that turn that energy into work. So instead of an internal combustion engine, you have an electric uh vehicle motor. Uh instead of a gasoline tank, you\u2019ve got a battery. Instead of a gas furnace in your house, you\u2019ve got a a heat pump. Instead of a you know, that sort of thing. And and that\u2019s a completely different way of looking at it. It\u2019s the and in fact if you step outside of North America if you you know we interview experts in Europe and Asia and and that is the dominant way of looking at the energy transition. It\u2019s very much an electrification of the of the global economy on both the supply side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So you\u2019re you\u2019re you\u2019re increasing the amount of electricity that\u2019s gets produced in the power grid or or you know on your rooftop solar whatever and also adoption of new technologies like electric vehicles like battery storage like heat pumps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay. So that\u2019s those are the I would argue that there are only two real worldviews here. One is continue what the way we we\u2019re going uh just add more energy sources or electricity and electric demand devices technologies will replace the commodities oil, gas and coal and the devices like internal combustion engines that turn that commodity into energy and into work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay. So I wrote the column and the organizers of the course, one of them in particular was outraged, absolutely outraged, tore me a new one on on LinkedIn and said very very rude things and also and this is the key part of this is that complained to by basically by tagging me them in in the the LinkedIn post uh tagged our one of our our funders. We have two and this is one of the large uh foundations in in Canada because they were tagged was public. They felt obligated to check it out. Check out the accusation that I didn\u2019t know, you know, that I had somehow impuged the integrity of this course and of the instructor. So they sent one of their staff, the foundation did sent one of their staff to take the course and they did that, reported back to the board and what did they say? Markham is correct. Markhamm got it absolutely right. That that\u2019s exactly it. In fact, they kind of had a good chuckle over it. And and so here\u2019s my point. I is that these guys, they don\u2019t even know when they\u2019re wrong. And when it\u2019s pointed out to them that they\u2019re wrong, they simply go and don\u2019t listen to you and get all affronted. and and if you see them on social media, if you run into them uh in uh in real life, they\u2019re absolutely sure that they\u2019re correct. It\u2019s Dunning Krueger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re an oil and gas engineer, for example, what do you know about electricity generation in China and the manufacturing of batteries, electric vehicles, and heat pumps or how efficient they are or what the cost is or how fast if you don\u2019t look at the data, you don\u2019t know. And these guys never look at the data. It\u2019s astonishing to me that so many of them, and I\u2019ll point out Brett Wilson as one example, because he comments all the time on social media, in fact, on my Facebook threads all the time, and he says, \u201cNo, you\u2019re wrong.\u201d Well, where\u2019s the data, Brett? Well, he hasn\u2019t got any because all he just It\u2019s the It\u2019s the sure he\u2019s absolutely sure that he\u2019s right even though he\u2019s absolutely wrong. And this goes on on and on and on again. And it\u2019s and so uh I want to make the point here that when you\u2019re reading something or you\u2019re engaged in conversation uh in social media or maybe you\u2019re around the the dinner table, you\u2019re in in Calgary or Edmonton or someplace and you have family that works in the oil industry and they will say with absolute certainty, look, I work in the I work in the energy industry. I know these things. No, they don\u2019t. They absolutely don\u2019t. I I talk to policy makers. I talk to people in the industry. I interview them. I have conversations with them. Uh, you know, sort of off camera. None of them know any of the data. None of them do any of the work and the research to educate themselves on what\u2019s going on outside of North America. It\u2019s quite criminal. And these are the people who are setting Alberta oil and gas policy, energy policy. Some of them are having a tremendous influence at the federal level. and they don\u2019t know. They don\u2019t the the emails I get late at night from people who run oil companies or make policy in Alberta would curl your toes. They are they\u2019re that devoid of of evidence and and and information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, if there\u2019s anything you take, there\u2019s one I want to hammer this home over and over and over again, and that is oil and gas professionals aren\u2019t energy transition experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qX06DYfLtXo\">Energi Media<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I understood the transcript, he seems to think that oil &amp; gas professionals aren\u2019t energy transition experts because we think we will keep adding new sources of energy on top ot legacy sources. He seems to think that we are replacing fossil fuels with electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well\u2026 Neither Bjorn Lomborg, nor Vaclav Smil are oil and gas professionals and it looks like they disagree with Journalist Markham Hislop \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"371\" data-attachment-id=\"389093\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=389093\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-466.png?fit=2048%2C1052&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1052\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-466.png?fit=723%2C371&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-466.png?resize=723%2C371&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-389093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-466.png?resize=1024%2C526&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-466.png?resize=300%2C154&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-466.png?resize=768%2C395&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-466.png?resize=1536%2C789&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-466.png?resize=1200%2C616&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-466.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-466.png?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Figure 6: \u201cAll energy (not just electricity) per person in the world, 1800\u20132100, TPES (total primary energy supply) measured in kWh, denoting natural gas with \u201cgas.\u201d Historical data 1800\u20132017, SSP2 middle-of-the-road scenario for 2020\u20132100. 1800\u20131900 plus traditional biomass data up to 2017 from (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0040162520304157#bib0212\">Vaclav\u00a0Smil 2017<\/a>, 240\u201341); see also (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0040162520304157#bib0069\">Fouquet\u00a02009<\/a>). 1900\u20131979 from (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0040162520304157#bib0014\">Benichou\u00a02014<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0040162520304157#bib0059\">Etemad\u00a0and Luciani 1991<\/a>), 1971\u20132017 from (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0040162520304157#bib0104\">IEA\u00a02018<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0040162520304157#bib0105\">2019a<\/a>), 2020\u20132100 SSP2 including population from (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0040162520304157#bib0108\">IIASA\u00a02018<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0040162520304157#bib0200\">Riahi et al., 2017<\/a>), global population 1800\u20132017 from (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0040162520304157#bib0102\">HYDE\u00a02019<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0040162520304157#bib0202\">Roser\u00a0and Ortiz-Ospina 2019<\/a>). \u201cOther\u201d includes liquid biofuels, geothermal, solar thermal, modern biofuels, and waste. There are some minor discrepancies from the historical data to scenario data: SSP2 nuclear is inexplicably halved, SSP2 biomass seems to include all modern biofuels and possibly waste, and SSP2 solar is somewhat larger than IEA solar.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0040162520304157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bjorn Lomborg, 2020<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Just remember: Life is Good!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"525\" data-attachment-id=\"389094\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=389094\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-467.png?fit=2048%2C1487&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1487\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-467.png?fit=723%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-467.png?resize=723%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-389094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-467.png?resize=1024%2C744&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-467.png?resize=300%2C218&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-467.png?resize=768%2C558&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-467.png?resize=1536%2C1115&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-467.png?resize=1200%2C871&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-467.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-467.png?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Figure 7: Life Expectancy:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/life-expectancy#rising-life-expectancy-around-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Our World in Data<\/a>, Energy Consumption:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0040162520304157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bjorn Lomborg, 2020<\/a>\u00a0and CO<sub>2<\/sub><br>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodfortrees.org\/data\/esrl-co2\/mean:12\/compress:12\">Wood for Trees<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1029\/2006GL026152\">MacFarling Meure et al., 2006<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"348\" data-attachment-id=\"389097\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=389097\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-469.png?fit=620%2C348&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"620,348\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-469.png?fit=620%2C348&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-469.png?resize=620%2C348&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-389097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-469.png?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-469.png?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video is mind-numbing. It\u2019s just a closeup of Journalist Markham Hislop droning on and on about oil &#038; gas professionals not being qualified to discuss the energy transition because they aren\u2019t experts in energy transitions. Guess what Markham?\u00a0Journalists\u00a0aren\u2019t experts in anything, with the occasional exception of journalism..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":389099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818618,691818228,691818130],"class_list":{"0":"post-389076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-energy-transition","9":"tag-fossil-fuels","10":"tag-renewables","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0AQP6K2V4wG1Q45XmFDbnNBaqfyp6tGeEZ04jd6HxBb9qxDdy9UKAy2CHle-k2CTx41GxCimk2vq5zl_CH9qcJqQsBCxlxP7c44g4-FrpkcL0_BZBIYGxZg4I0RneUxYwrShc9i02PJ9RYAmNNcQ_U8u1LAwv7Q-1.jpeg?fit=1280%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1Ddq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":414487,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414487","url_meta":{"origin":389076,"position":0},"title":"A Sobering Reality: Global Fossil Fuel Demand Continues to Rise","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"24\/11\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Blackout News here reports\u00a0that despite ambitious international climate targets and the promise of a rapid energy transition; 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