Coal is dirty/bad and wind/solar is clean green energy.

Agreed.

Randy, it is not a competition between non-fossil and fossil power, in terms of power coming from ancient material burning. It is a time competition, based on the physics, in terms of risk of the dire warning of the superlative and best places, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, that use of fossil cannot now end soon enough, given the longevity of the warning and the period for which it has been ignored, of decades. The risk cannot be run. There is no flick over switch to some other powering, whatever form, and definitely not "silver bullet", and today's fossil power-use critical mass, points to a task far out of reach now, if it ever was within. The changes to the functioning of Earth and the overwhelming breach of its maximum-stability systems of closed cycles, essential to be maintained, given there are more than 7.5bln and rising, interlocked well being, of soaring per capita power use, the breach and its many secondary ones, are vast canaries, showing huge transformation not within our control. In less than a very short 65 years seasonal ice of the Arctic ocean means massive energy once recently reflected, is absorbed by dark ocean water, as one example. The Titanic case study of risk, and ignored authoritative warning, the Captain's direction to board, the less than half sufficiency capacity, of which more than 400 places were not taken, is familiarly apt. it was never a certainty the vessel would sink, but rather not to run the risk, the gist of the position of the US' NOAA.