{"id":415150,"date":"2025-11-28T21:31:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=415150"},"modified":"2025-12-26T02:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:48:27","slug":"iea-publishes-climate-eras-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=415150","title":{"rendered":"IEA Publishes Climate Era\u2019s Obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Vijay Jayaraj<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The end is nigh \u2013 not for the world, but for the climate industrial complex. It has been a decline brought about mainly by the sheer reality of energy economics in the developing world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the \u201cWorld Energy Outlook 2025\u201d reads like an obituary for the fantasy of global decarbonization, acknowledging the undeniable truth that nations prioritizing prosperity must unapologetically embrace coal, oil and natural gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, the IEA and Western think tanks insisted that hydrocarbons were in structural decline, predicting a fatal drop in demand after 2030. Yet in the very document meant to track progress toward realizing an absurd net-zero objective, the IEA concedes that demand for oil and natural gas will continue to grow well beyond 2035 and may not peak until 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key insight of the IEA report is that emerging markets, excluding China, are becoming the primary drivers of growth in global energy consumption. This is a massive, structural shift. No longer will the trajectory of energy markets be dictated by the policies of Paris, Berlin or Washington but rather by the sovereign choices of nations whose citizens are desperate for better lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India is projected to see the fastest average increase in energy consumption among all emerging markets, rising by a robust 3% each year on average through the middle of the century. Oil and natural gas will meet a large percentage of this. India\u2019s oil use is projected to jump from 5.5 million barrels per day in 2024 to 8 million by 2035 to match growth in aviation, vehicle ownership and the manufacture of plastics and chemicals.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the real deal is India\u2019s and Indonesia\u2019s adoption of coal \u2013 until recently treated as a relic of the past. For the next 40 years, the dynamics of this fossil fuel will be shaped in the boardrooms of New Delhi and Jakarta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The demand for coal by India\u2019s industrial sector is projected to skyrocket by an astounding 60% by 2035. Nearly a quarter of new steel manufacturing globally is planned for India and Southeast Asia, with production in these regions to almost double by 2035.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indonesia\u2019s need for industrial coal is expected to increase by more than 45% over the same period. Factories, nickel smelters and chemical plants \u2013 the backbone of its manufacturing boom \u2013 are consuming more energy every quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the IEA\u2019s most revealing figures are for growth in per capita electricity demand. India\u2019s and Indonesia\u2019s are to grow by 80% and 70%, respectively, by 2035.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These surges are driven by air conditioning, appliances, urbanization and relentless population growth. Power-grid extensions in Indonesia have almost doubled, adding nearly 1 million kilometers of new lines within a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The IEA notes that India hit its 2030 target for non-fossil power capacity five years ahead of schedule, yet fossil fuels continue to provide the lion\u2019s share of flexible and dispatchable generation. Why? Because so-called renewables remain intermittent, and only fossil fuels, along with nuclear power, can hope to guarantee the kind of reliability that industry requires and modern society expects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For India and Indonesia \u2013 and many others \u2013 coal is a guarantor of industrial ascendancy; and it very well may prove to be a key ingredient in the development of data centers in the already tech-dominated cities of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For developing nations, the primary threats come from energy deprivation and economic stagnation, not ideological driven forecasts of a climate apocalypse. Serious leaders will not place their bets on unreliable technologies like wind and solar in pursuit of Western elites\u2019 fanciful \u201ccarbon-free\u201d utopia. Way too much is at stake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This commentary was first published by American Thinker <\/em>on November 17, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vijay Jayaraj is a Science and Research Associate at the <\/em>CO2<\/sub> Coalition<\/em><\/a>, Fairfax, Virginia. He holds an M.S. in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia and a postgraduate degree in energy management from Robert Gordon University, both in the U.K., and a bachelor\u2019s in engineering from Anna University, India.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The end is nigh \u2013 not for the world, but for the climate industrial complex. 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