Global warming attracts a certain kind of "gotcha" nerd who will hunt for the one set of data that can be arranged to make it look not so bad while ignoring all the evidence on the other side of the scale. There's an entire site devoted to that (WUWT).
Meanwhile there's a set of quietly competent engineers keeping the lights on and ignoring all this social media nonsense.
I wonder if someone somewhere has a large vested interest in fossil fuels and is annoyed about the BNEF and Bloomberg's mostly positive reporting on renewables.
To your point, I've found that petrolheads are pretty common even in tech.
anyone got a contact at Marvel?
A doubling of wind capacity will reduce how much gas we'd burn in total, but you'd really start to hit diminishing returns.