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If there's more renewable energy added to the total, Europe's

July 15, 2017 by Kimberly Parks

If there's more renewable energy added to the total, Europe's electricity mix looks a lot more like the world's. The IEA says wind and solar could contribute to 50 percent of Europe's total power by 2027, but if renewables are replaced by coal and gas, that's a little less than half of that by 2027.

The IEA is also worried about the impact of climate change on the energy mix. The IEA says that global temperatures will rise by 3 degrees Celsius by 2035, which could result in a rise in the rate of wind and solar power. But that figure comes from the IPCC, not the IEA.

What's the IEA thinking? Well, the IEA's recent report on wind, solar, and biomass has given the IEA an idea:  The IEA predicts that by 2027, Germany's total renewables mix will be about 30 percent of the European Union's. This is based on a new baseline of power plants using wind, solar, and biomass (based on the EIA's estimate of wind power at 2027). In the past, renewables have been seen as the single largest source of power, but the IEA and the World Resources Institute have said that if renewables are replaced by coal and gas they could add between 6 and 30 percent.

In other words, renewables are not the only thing that the IEA has worried about. They say that the IEA thinks that Europe's electricity mix will be more like the world's.

What do you think? What do you think about the IEA's estimates of renewables? Share your thoughts in the comments below.A former New York City police officer who helped train New York's new mayor has been fired after being caught on video helping to track down a suspect he had been accused of stealing from a Bronx convenience store.

The officer was fired after police arrested him on Sunday afternoon for allegedly helping a suspect he believed to be a sex offender steal from a New York City gas station in 2013. The officer, Jeremy Davis, was caught on a video in which he repeatedly and repeatedly asked the suspect if he was a sex offender, according to the New York Daily News. During the exchange, a woman who identified himself as "Jillian" asks Davis if he would like to use a car and he responds "Yeah, sure."

Davis was paid $150,000 a year and he was promoted to sergeant last year in the New York City Police Department in April 2014. He has been on paid administrative