Fun fact: renewables produce more electricity than coal in the UK, even though the UK is worse for solar than anywhere in the contiguous USA.

https://amp.ft.com/content/a05d1dd4-dddd-11e9-9743-db5a37048...

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/1355/measuring-sola...

jeffbee's unsourced numbers are probably not for UK.

Worldwide coal provides a lot more power than wind [1], although of course it still produces more waste and pollution and everything per TWh than renewables.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...

My point is more of: if even the UK can make coal less relevant than renewables, almost everyone can.

The exceptions are practically rounding errors, even though Siberia is one of those regions that is worse than the UK and has 33 million people in it.

Indeed, my figure is for the US. It's been coming down in recent years though.

https://www.acaa-usa.org/Portals/9/Files/PDFs/2018-Charts.pd...

Note also the switch from fossil coal to fossil natural gas. Coal dying because of gas is not even remotely a climate win. It's like going from astoundingly awful to terrible.