Rest assured that the “greens” will still try to say it will contribute to global warming because puts heat into the atmosphere faster than it would naturally seep out of the lithosphere. The numbers as I show are trivial compared to the solar influx but that’s not the point. Limiting standards of living for people they don’t consider their peers is the point. Its punishment for not seeing them as your betters. That said humans need to figure out sooner than later how to power 8+ billion people at somewhere near western consumption levels without liquid hydrocarbons which will run out at current consumption levels in under 50 years. This is at 58kWh per day avg over 7.7 billion if China and India grow their middle class and Africa too then it goes faster. China is at 77kWh per day catching up fast to the EU but not near the USA 200+ which if the whole world lived like that 47 years becomes 10 there is a finite amount of liquid hydrocarbons in the ground. I have spent 20 years on 6 of 7 continents chasing them as a geologist there are not anymore mega fields to find the basins have been categorized,3D seismic and geophysical analysis done for decades. We are not going after the source rocks with shale oil and hydrologic stimulation plus heavy oil, bitumen and tar sands even with those there is only 1.4 trillion bbls recoverable left and the last of those are going to be $100+ to get at or more.
Grrr autocorrect we as in the oil industry is now going after the source rocks with shale oil and hydrologic stimulation.