The Splendor of Coal-Fired Power Emissions: China Leads! By James Reed
The West is in fear mode about coal-fired power emissions, now that Trump is gone, loving coal and fossil fuels was about his only good thing. Now China is soaring away, producing lovely fumes keeping the world safe from the abominable snowman global cooling.
“A report published on Monday by Ember, a U.K-based energy and climate research organization, found that China generated 53 percent of the world’s coal-fired power in 2020.
China was the only G20 nation to significantly increase its use of coal-fired power plants last year, building over three times as much coal capacity as the rest of the world combined.
Reuters noted this surge of 9 percent in China’s coal power over the past five years came “despite climate pledges and the building of hundreds of renewable energy plants.”
The climate change industry remains extremely reluctant to admit Beijing might not have been entirely sincere when it promised to go “carbon neutral” within a few decades:
China has promised to reduce its dependence on coal and bring emissions of climate-warming greenhouse gas to a peak before 2030 and become “carbon neutral” by 2060.
“China is like a big ship, and it takes time to turn in another direction,” said Muyi Yang, senior analyst with Ember and one of the report’s authors.
China has been unable to find enough clean energy to meet rapid increases in demand, with renewables meeting only half of China’s power consumption growth last year.
Reuters quoted Greenpeace acknowledging that China approved another 46.1 gigawatts of new coal-fired power plant construction last year, which is more than it approved during the previous three years combined, and its generation volume is increasing even as the price of electricity plummets. If all of the projects approved by China are completed and brought online, it will construct over five times as much coal power as the rest of the planet over the next few years.
This is rather difficult to square with the notion of a “big ship” slowly turning in a new direction, and the climate change industry’s response to China’s coal surge is a stark contrast to the economy-wrecking demands for hairpin turns that are constantly pressed on the United States and other Western nations.
According to Ember’s report, the world outside of China saw a record-breaking 4 percent decline in coal power generation, while wind and solar power grew at roughly the same pace as in China (15 percent worldwide, 16 percent for China.)
The U.S. reduced coal power by 20 percent, while India – roughly analogous to China in its rapid pace of industrial development and ravenous appetite for inexpensive, reliable energy – reduced coal power generation by 5 percent.”
It is obvious that industrial giants chew up coal. But, you will not find the climate change gurus, such as Princess Greta, criticising their beloved communist China. Why, for the Left, communism and non-whiteness is a winning combination!
The West is in fear mode about coal-fired power emissions, now that Trump is gone, loving coal and fossil fuels was about his only good thing. Now China is soaring away, producing lovely fumes keeping the world safe from the abominable snowman global cooling.
“A report published on Monday by Ember, a U.K-based energy and climate research organization, found that China generated 53 percent of the world’s coal-fired power in 2020.
China was the only G20 nation to significantly increase its use of coal-fired power plants last year, building over three times as much coal capacity as the rest of the world combined.
Reuters noted this surge of 9 percent in China’s coal power over the past five years came “despite climate pledges and the building of hundreds of renewable energy plants.”
The climate change industry remains extremely reluctant to admit Beijing might not have been entirely sincere when it promised to go “carbon neutral” within a few decades:
China has promised to reduce its dependence on coal and bring emissions of climate-warming greenhouse gas to a peak before 2030 and become “carbon neutral” by 2060.
“China is like a big ship, and it takes time to turn in another direction,” said Muyi Yang, senior analyst with Ember and one of the report’s authors.
China has been unable to find enough clean energy to meet rapid increases in demand, with renewables meeting only half of China’s power consumption growth last year.
Reuters quoted Greenpeace acknowledging that China approved another 46.1 gigawatts of new coal-fired power plant construction last year, which is more than it approved during the previous three years combined, and its generation volume is increasing even as the price of electricity plummets. If all of the projects approved by China are completed and brought online, it will construct over five times as much coal power as the rest of the planet over the next few years.
This is rather difficult to square with the notion of a “big ship” slowly turning in a new direction, and the climate change industry’s response to China’s coal surge is a stark contrast to the economy-wrecking demands for hairpin turns that are constantly pressed on the United States and other Western nations.
According to Ember’s report, the world outside of China saw a record-breaking 4 percent decline in coal power generation, while wind and solar power grew at roughly the same pace as in China (15 percent worldwide, 16 percent for China.)
The U.S. reduced coal power by 20 percent, while India – roughly analogous to China in its rapid pace of industrial development and ravenous appetite for inexpensive, reliable energy – reduced coal power generation by 5 percent.”
It is obvious that industrial giants chew up coal. But, you will not find the climate change gurus, such as Princess Greta, criticising their beloved communist China. Why, for the Left, communism and non-whiteness is a winning combination!
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