> I posit that any deliberate misinformation by the oil and gas lobby can and will be equally matched by deliberate misinformation by the wind and solar lobby.

> I posit that any deliberate misinformation by the oil and gas lobby can and will be equally matched by deliberate misinformation by the wind and solar lobby. There's no reason to believe that the former is composed of evil people who mislead for the sake of profit There is plenty of edvidence to the contrary. See e.g. “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt “Tracing Big Oil’s PR war to delay action on climate change” https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/09/oil-companies-discourage-climate-action-study-says/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/09/oil-companies... “Exxon Knew about Climate Change almost 40 years ago” “A new investigation shows the oil company understood the science before it became a public issue and spent millions to promote misinformation” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-... As for the market argument, it is costly because all historical capacity is in fossil fuel based systems. This is a major cost advantage to fossil fuel based solutions. Waiting for the market to adjust might be too little to late, climate change is path dependent, you can’t simply undo it.