Asia Burns Record Amounts of Coal By James Reed
The climate change narrative in the West, religiously accepted by the ultra-woke Albo government, is that there is only a limited time, the proverbial ten years, to "save the planet" from runway climate change. As advocated by the UN and the World Economic Forum, radical changes to the Western lifestyle are needed, such as the end of meat-eating, conventional farming, and fossil fuel use. This means population numbers will also need to be enormously reduced. At the same time, guilty Whites must open their borders to unending illegals, and the UN has been at the forefront of financing and helping illegals invade the US open border, kept open by the Biden regime to ensure a Democrat Leftist dictatorship forever. The same situation exists in Europe with the Great Replacement by the EU, covered at this blog by our London correspondent Richard Miller.
As far as the climate change alarmist narrative goes, there is a problem, at least logically. As Jo Nova has noted, the world, and mainly Asia, is using record amounts of coal. In 2023, the global demand for coal topped 8.54 billion tons, and China used 4.5 billion tons of that coal, with no climate change shame or guilt at all. Coal-fired power stations are being built every week. If the planet really was in danger of extinction from climate change, then there should be severe opposition to China's growth. Sure, it would be unfair to try to halt this as the West has had a bite of the proverbial apple. But if there was an existential threat that "fairness" issue would be just too bad. Since there is no opposition to China' fossil fuel use, countries like Australia should ignore the UN and not damage development by insane "Green" policies of eliminating fossil fuels. If anything, we need more fossil fuel usage, especially in upgrading the defence industry.
"The best kept secret in the world is that humans are using more coal than ever.
So much for the "stranded dead asset". In 2022 the world set a new all-time record for coal use — reaching 8.4 billion tons. In 2023, despite all the Net Zero billions in spending, despite the boom in windmills and solar panels, global demand for coal will top 8.54 billion tons.
The IEA is the "International Energy Agency" — supposedly, the impartial servant of 31 nations worth of taxpayers. Yet they decided to ignore the world record and instead tell us how coal is set to decline. It's what they think the taxpayers need to hear.
It's almost as if the IEA works for the renewables industry and their banker investors? Mr Vestas himself could hardly have written a more successful headline to hide the truth and gaslight the taxpayers.
The IEA has been predicting the end of coal for years. Back in 2017 the IEA was telling us China would move away from coal, because by 2025-2030 "solar would be cheaper than coal". Instead, China's burning more coal than ever before and the quarterly reporting season was a bloodbath for the solar and wind industries as projects get cancelled because their costs are rising.
In 2023 China uses more than half of the total coal on the planet — an extraordinary 4.5 billion tons of that 8.5 billion ton total.
The three largest coal producers in the world are China, India and Indonesia which account for a blockbuster 70% of global production. The IEA is convinced coal use will decline any day now, but China's growth rate in coal use was 5% in 2023, and India's was 8%. These are hardly signs of the plateau before the fall.
To put some perspective on the success of the renewables transition in reducing coal — Australia has more solar panels per capita than any other nation, and while global coal use is 8,536 Mt, in 2022 Australian coal use declined by all of 5 Mt. We only had to spend ten billion dollars to achieve that:
Overall coal consumption in Australia declined from 100 Mt in 2021 to 95 Mt in
2022 and is estimated to have continued its decrease over the course of 2023 with
a reduction of 4%.
Rejoice, global coal use is six one-hundredth of a percent smaller thanks to the Australian Renewable Energy Target and the Safeguard Mechanism emissions market.
In the West the biggest reductions in coal use have come from exporting factories to China, which of course, don't cut global coal use at all. And ponder at just how incredibly fast the transition to coal has been — from the West to the East:
This year, China, India and Southeast Asia are set to account for three-quarters of global consumption, up from only about one-quarter in 1990.
Just one generation ago…"
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