[uvdiv]

Lomborg is right here. This graph (2.7, page 2) shows IEA projecting 3-4% of 2035 primary energy to be "other renewables" (including wind, solar, and geothermal, by their definition). Biomass (wood burning in the 3rd world) is much larger.

http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/media/weowebsite/2011/key_...

There's no discrepancy. Renewable electricity may be 1/3rd of the 2035 electricity supply, in that forecast; but wind and solar are only a fraction of renewable electricity, and electricity is only a fraction of energy. Dams are also renewable electricity. And non-electric energy (oil fuels) are even larger than electricity.

(I'm still looking for the actual numbers (a lot of the IEA publications are paid-access); I'll update this comment when I find them).

(edit: tables are here starting on page 544: http://www.scribd.com/doc/72512781/World-Energy-Outlook-2011)

[mrcharles]

Yes, but given the context of "renewable energy sources", it is misleading use of information at best.

[leoedin]

The focus of the article is almost entirely on electricity. It's fairly misleading to quote those statistics in terms of total energy consumption when the rest of the article only discusses electricity production.

[chris_wot]

The focus of the article was actually Earth Hour, and how useless it really is. The whole damn article lurches from one disaster to another.