I'm glad you asked that question, Al. May I call you Al? Adding chemist27 takes so many extra keystrokes.
I don't consider myself a brainiac, but I do know a few. Also, although I disagree with a lot of their policy and politics, I think we can all agree that NASA has a bunch of smart people working for them. People that some of us (me for instance) would call brainiacs. Although I prefer the term "rocket scientists".
So what does NASA have to say on the subject?
From their FAQ on the sun (I thought it would seem pretentious to quote an official study / paper), found at
https://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/qa_sun.html
I do not know Eberhard. He's a Doctor so he's probably one of the brainiacs. (My dad actually was a for real rocket scientist, Phd and all, but he never went by "Dr.". He was always just Dad to me, or, coincidentally, Al to most other people - NO NES, Al is NOT my father!)
According to an article on Wikipedia, which is NOT necessarily by a brainiac (or maybe it is - I didn't check to see if the author was a Phd), the world primary energy supply amounted to 155,481 terawatt-hour (TWh) in 2014.
So the units are different and maybe I'll screw it up, but let's take a shot.
We know that the whole world produced 155,481 terawatt-hour (TWh) of energy (all types, coal, oil, nuclear, solar, etc.) in 2014.
We know that the sun outputs 1.8 x 10^17 Joules/s (well, really a WHOLE lot more, that's just the amount of energy the sun hits US with!)
First, let's get that 155PWh reduced. That turns out to be 17.75 TWh in a day. Now, I really wouldn't be surprised if I totally bollixed that one, so please feel free to do the math yourself! I'm only human.
P(W) = E(J) / t(s)
So
watt = joule / second
or
W = J / s
So, 1.8 x 10^17 Joules/s is basically 1.8 x 10^17 Watts
So, 180,000,000 TW or 259,200,000,000 TWh received by the Earth, from the Sun, in the course of one day.
So, according to you and the High Priest Gore, the WHOLE WORLD'S ENERGY PRODUCTION of 17.75 THh is causing more change than the 259,200,000,000 TWh we catch each day just from the sun.
Yeah, I'm TOTALLY worried about replacing my HumVee with a Prius.
Please, ALL The math was ballpark. I'm PROBABLY WRONG. But if I'm wrong by several orders of magnitude, I still am not trading in the dinosaur fueled monster truck.