By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-19 13:41:41 | Updated at 2024-11-25 21:40:25
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China’s Soaring Emissions Are Upending Climate Politics
New York Times ^ | 18th november 2024 | Brad Plumer and Mira Rojanasakul
Posted on 11/19/2024 5:24:26 AM PST by Cronos
For many years, wealthy places like the United States and Europe have had the biggest historical responsibility for global warming and have been tasked with taking the lead in stopping it.
China’s astonishing rise is upending that dynamic.
Over the past three decades, China has built more than 1,000 coal-fired power plants as its economy has grown more than 40-fold. The country has become by far the largest annual emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.
...Last year, China for the first time passed Europe as the second-largest historical emitter, according to an analysis published on Tuesday by Carbon Brief, a climate research site.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-emissions-have-now-caused-more-global-warming-than-eu/
China, for its part, has promised that its emissions will peak this decade and then start falling. The country is installing more wind turbines and solar panels than all other nations combined and leads the world in electric vehicle sales. But even with China’s shift to low-carbon energy, the Carbon Brief analysis found, the nation’s historical emissions are projected to approach those of the United States in the coming years.
...Leaders from both the United States and European Union have called on China to contribute more climate finance to poorer countries as part of a final deal at Baku.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; China; News/Current Events
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1 posted on 11/19/2024 5:24:26 AM PST by Cronos
To: Cronos
Sorry NYT. I call BS on China’s alternative energy ambitions. When you build 1000 coal fired plants, a million windmills won’t mitigate it.
2 posted on 11/19/2024 5:26:54 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Drill Baby Drill!)
To: Cronos
The last graph, declining CO2 emissions, reflects the success of Bill Gates vaccines in eliminating the human species.
3 posted on 11/19/2024 5:29:31 AM PST by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
To: Cronos
We should all Hope and Pray that they continue to accelerate adding carbon to the atmosphere in the hopes it is enough to stave off the NEXT ICE AGE which is Absolutely Guaranteed to happen.
4 posted on 11/19/2024 5:38:42 AM PST by eyeamok
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