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What portion of all U.S. energy consumption was provided by wind energy in 2025?

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During 2025, wind provided 3.9% of all U.S. energy consumption, including 10.3% of all electricity production. Because wind speeds fluctuate and are sometimes not strong enough to drive turbines for days at a time, most wind power capacity must be backed up by other sources to generate electricity when the wind doesn’t blow. This is expensive and limits wind production in the U.S. and throughout the world. In Germany, which subsidizes wind and solar more aggressively than the U.S., the average price of household electricity is about 3.5 times that of the United States. Relying on wind as a major energy source can also contribute to electricity blackouts during dangerous weather conditions.

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Climate Crisis Predictions

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I–VT) claims that “WE MUST ADDRESS THE CLIMATE CRISIS” and combat “the stupidity of Trump,” who calls it a “hoax.”

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IN FACT, wide-ranging measures of human and environmental welfare related to climate change have stayed level or improved for the past 40–200 years, contrary to the predictions of prominent scientists and climate activists. Here are the specifics:

Contrary to a 1989 prediction that global warming “will be destructive to natural systems” like “plant” life, a 2025 paper in the journal Remote Sensing Applications found a “striking global greening trend, with a significant portion of the Earth’s terrestrial land surface showing increases in vegetation cover over the past four decades.”
Likewise, a study published by the journal Nature Climate Change in 2016 found “a persistent and widespread increase” in “greening” or plant growth “over 25% to 50% of the global vegetated area” from 1982 to 2014, “whereas less than 4% of the globe” had less greening over this period.
Contrary to a 1989 prediction that “forests would be adversely affected” by climate change, a report published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in 2018 found that the mass of above-ground organic plant materials in forests “has remained stable since the 1990s,” and most regions of the world are experiencing either positive or small-to-no changes in forest area or above-ground biomass.
Likewise, a study published by the journal Nature in 2018 found that global tree cover increased by 2.9% to 10.8% with 90% confidence from 1982 to 2016.
Contrary to a 1989 prediction that “entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000,” a study published by the journal Nature Climate Change in 2016 found that the net amount of land area on Earth grew by about 22,400 square miles from 1985 to 2015, and the net amount of coastal land area grew by about 5,200 square miles.
Contrary to a 1989 prediction that global warming will “disrupt agriculture” and “adversely” affect “food supplies,” the average daily food supply per person increased by 10% from 2000 to 2023, with gains of 7% in Africa, 22% in China, and 11% in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Contrary to a 1989 prediction that “rainfall patterns would likely be substantially altered” from global warming “by the year 2020” and cause “water shortages in some areas,” a study published in 2022 by a prestigious scholarly journal found that measures of rainfall “do not show any substantial changes at the global scale in at least the last 120 years,” and there is “a statistically significant decline of the percentage of land area affected by drought conditions” from 1950–2020.
Contrary to a 1992 prediction that “about 10 million people in Bangladesh will lose their homes and means of sustenance because of the rising sea level, due to global warming, in the next few decades,” the population of Bangladesh has grown by 42% since then.
Contrary to a 1992 prediction that “up to 60% of the present population of Florida may have to be relocated” “not long after” the “next few decades” due to global warming,” the coastal population of Florida has grown by 67% since then.
Contrary to a 1995 prediction that “most of the beaches on the East Coast of the United States would be gone in 25 years” due to global warming, none of them have disappeared.
Contrary to a 2004 prediction that “we expect more and more intense tropical hurricanes and cyclones” “as the world warms,” global hurricane frequency and intensity have been roughly level for as far back as data extend (1979).
Contrary to a 2007 prediction that the “Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012,” summer Arctic sea ice has remained roughly level since then and was higher in 2025 than 2007.
Contrary to a 2008 prediction that “global warming” could cause “starvation due to drought,” the portion of the world’s population that was undernourished decreased from 13% in 2001 to 9% in 2022.

Assertions that such indicators are deteriorating suffer from five fatal flaws:

They cherry pick short-term trends and local anecdotes while ignoring long-term comprehensive data.
They use deficient datasets that become increasingly incomplete as they extend back in time.
They fail to account for factors like population growth and economic development.
They are blatant falsehoods.
They predict the future based on models, a class of studies that is notoriously unreliable and has been criticized in a scientific journal for creating a “perception of knowledge and precision that is illusory and can fool policymakers into thinking that the forecasts the models generate have some kind of scientific legitimacy.”

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