Global fossil fuel use and CO2 emissions to rise through 2050, US EIA projects
By Paul Homewood
The US EIA have just published their latest International Energy Outlook:
In our International Energy Outlook 2023 (IEO2023), we project that global energy-related CO2 emissions will increase by 2050 in a number of IEO2023 cases as global population growth and higher living standards push growth in energy consumption beyond advances in energy efficiency.
In all IEO2023 cases, we expect global primary energy consumption to increase through 2050. Our expectations of global population growth, increased regional manufacturing, and higher living standards indicate that global energy consumption will grow faster than advances in energy efficiency. Non-fossil fuel-based resources, including nuclear and renewables, produce more energy through 2050, but in most of the IEO2023 cases we examined, that growth is not sufficient to reduce global energy-related CO2 emissions under current laws and regulations.
In our IEO2023, we explore long-term world energy trends and present an outlook for energy markets through 2050. We use different scenarios, called cases, to understand how varying assumptions about technological advancement and economic growth affect energy trends. The IEO2023 Reference case—which serves as a baseline, or benchmark—and six side cases consider only the laws and regulations adopted through March 2023. The six side cases in IEO2023 explore differing assumptions of economic growth, crude oil prices, and technology costs.
U.S. projections in IEO2023 are the published projections in the Annual Energy Outlook 2023 (AEO2023), which assumed that U.S. laws and regulations as of November 2022 remain unchanged.
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What is particularly significant is that emissions and consumption of fossil fuel remain effectively at least as high as now across all scenarios. The lowest in terms of fossil fuels is LM – Low Economic Growth Case.
The analysis is clearly deep, and I suspect a lot more realistic than the fantasies peddled by the IEA.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Of course the use of fuels that actually work, i.e. the so-called “fossil fuels” and nuclear will increase. There is nothing wrong with that. What IS wrong is the politicians attacking them.
Just as wrong as all the constant flogging of the declaration that wind and solar has become cheaper than fossil fuels while the people building and operating the wind and solar facilities are selling power at prices above that of fossil fuels while decrying their losses and demanding more subsidies and tax breaks to keep them from pulling out completely.
So what! Man made carbon dioxide has an insignificant effect on the climate, Throughout time, whenever global temperatures have risen, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have followed, not the other way around. Hence CO2 rises are a consequence of warming and NOT the cause of it. 90% of greenhouses gases consist of water vapour and clouds. Man made CO2 is just 0.04%.