A Tweet, a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and an article in the Scottish press illustrate the dangers of extremist energy ideology.

Folks obsessed with Twitter love to use it to pick fights and a couple of weeks ago some Aussie who apparently wants to be known as the down-under Josh Fox or “Frackman,” targeted a few tweets at me. We had a couple of exchanges regarding property values near fracking sites, which ended with him referring me to a YouTube video of himself on Aussie television, which I ignored.

He apparently wasn’t happy being ignored, so he subsequently posted a Tweet that did catch my attention, one falsely alleging “renewables now at 25% of global electricity generation” and linking to an IEA report as his evidence. This was a deliberate distortion of the facts and I called him out on it. But, why are these folks so determined to engage in such self-delusion? Well, it’s their extremist energy ideology. It doesn’t allow for facts.

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http://naturalgasnow.org/dangers-extremist-energy-ideology-self-delusion/