Today, 30% of the globe’s CO2 emissions come from China. In 10 years, China’s emissions alone will match the rest of the world’s emissions combined.
China continues to build hundreds of coal plants today. So why are the rest of us spending $600 billion a year on CO2-emission mitigation?
China overtook the United States as the world’s largest CO2 emitter in 2008 (Liu et al., 2019).
It only took seven years for China’s emissions percentage to double that of the USA’s. As of 2015, China accounted for 30% of global emissions (Shan et al., 2018) compared to the USA’s 15%.
Much of the reason for China’s emissions domination is because its citizens consume more than 50% of the world’s coal.
China is in the process of building 100s of new coal plants, with plans to add a new coal plant every 2 weeks for the next 12 years.
According to the People’s Daily, China, the country’s longest coal transporting railway, carrying 200 million tonnes of coal from north to east China every year, is now (October 2019) in operation.
Menghua Railway, China’s LONGEST coal transporting railway line, is expected to be put in operation in Oct. The 1,837-km railway will carry 200 million tonnes of coal annually from N China’s Inner Mongolia to E China’s Jiangxi. pic.twitter.com/sFXpCjplaN
— People’s Daily, China (@PDChina) July 23, 2019
Due to its exponentially-growing energy demands, China will be responsible for 50% of the globe’s CO2 emissions within 10 years (Liu et al., 2019).
Why should the rest of us spend $89 trillion to reduce CO2 emissions?
According to proponents of CO2 mitigation policies, the cost of infrastructure changes required to reduce CO2 emissions to acceptable levels is $89 trillion by 2030.
Per a scolding, we’re-not-spending-enough-on-climate article published in the journal Nature, we’re already spending about $600 billion annually on CO2 mitigation.
“[T]otal climate-related financing was $510 billion to $530 billion in 2017,” which is much higher than the $360 billion spent in 2012. “The UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) put it at $681 billion in 2016…” (Yeo, 2019).
So we’re spending from hundreds of billions to tens of trillions to reduce CO2 emissions in Western countries.
Meanwhile, China continues to build hundreds of new coal plants and grow its carbon-intensive infrastructure, thwarting any and all efforts to reduce net global emissions.
Why are we doing this?
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DL … its “anthropogenic” not “anthropological”, my spell checker messs up all the time too, especially on my cell phone.
I agree with your “adaptability” principle. Especially since climate change is a natural cycle and subject to forces well beyond human reach or cause. What else is there to do but adapt. We did it before, we can do it again.
But KR’s article is just more hypocritical whining. Another anthropogenic climate change denier complaining about someone else’s contribution to climate change. And really, it’s hard to have sympathy for the idea that the US is the victim of a bad-boy narrative from the rest of the world.
The headline and story is somewhat misleading. CO2 emissions by humans is only 3% of the total CO2 emissions, the rest comes from natural sources.
Presumably the headline refers to fossil fuel emissions. But everyone keeps ignoring the lack of warming and failing to point out that the CO2 hypothesis is falsified by the empirical data. Bunk is no basis for costly policy, even if it’s spouted by scientists.
Nothing could be ” GREENER ”
than letting China burn most of the worlds coal.
But if you want to burn carbon
YOU
must answer to prostrate yourself before
Nancy Pelosi
Cherry Nadler
Adam Schitt
Schmuck Chomper
and any other phony smellocrat that the MSM is
currently adoring.
The most amazing thing about the climate change movement is that carbon dioxide is blamed for a disastrous warming of the earth with no evidence to support the claim. The actual evidences shows a very low correlation between that gas and climate. Perhaps the second most amazing thing is the way that China has been treated. The US under President Trump has done a better job reducing emissions that most industrial nations, yet both the nation and the president are the bad guy in the world view point. On the other hand, China, which is increasing CO2 emissions at a very rapid rate, has a free pass. The Chinese have promised to peak their emissions by 2030. However, at the rate it is going they will be very high at that point. You can bet if they need more power after 2030 more coal plants will be built.
Anthropological climate change is a fraud, but if it were real our only option would be to adapt. Mankind is very adaptable. Don’t forget, with nothing more than Stone Age technology humans migrated from the Africa – Middle East region, through Siberia and Alaska, and settled in the American South West desert and the jungles of South America.
DL … its “anthropogenic” not “anthropological”, my spell checker messs up all the time too, especially on my cell phone.
I agree with your “adaptability” principle. Especially since climate change is a natural cycle and subject to forces well beyond human reach or cause. What else is there to do but adapt. We did it before, we can do it again.
But KR’s article is just more hypocritical whining. Another anthropogenic climate change denier complaining about someone else’s contribution to climate change. And really, it’s hard to have sympathy for the idea that the US is the victim of a bad-boy narrative from the rest of the world.
So China produces 50% of the CO2 so when are those idiots from Greenpeace to sail over there and object to it?
Good one! I think that’s your best post ever. (And it’s only one comma shy of perfection.)
Congratulations to the Chinese. They could be saving the World getting vital Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere for Plants to breathe in and then provide us with more and more oxygen. Already satellites have reported that the World is getting greener. Deserts could soon be a thing of the past. No kidding – we’ve already had snow in the Sahara Desert a year or so ago.
Empirical evidence does not support the claim that carbon dioxide causes global warming. Without this evidence such a conclusion cannot be supported from the facts. I have read a recent study that demonstrates that a molecule of CO2 retains heat for 0.0001 of a second. Furthermore, CO2 is not a pollutant, but an essential ingredient of the Earth’s ecosystem on which almost all life depends via photosynthesis. So, why worry at all about China burning coal?
Is the Paris
DISCORD
Nothing but a cheap attempt to let
CHINA
Take over the world
by way of treaty
rather than
WAR ?
If the UN IPCC are out to smother American capitalism, and give China a free pass on emissions, what is their end game? China is a Communist dictatorship. Why feed it? How does Xi regard the United Nations? Useful?
If you ask me, as a lifelong neighbor of Uncle Sam, I appreciate incentive, capitalism and freedom, I love them all.
The people of Hong Kong are fighting for something that Brussels sneers at.
President Trump is your best hope against Beijing. CO2 is a red herring.
Just nuke ’em. Get it over with.
Of course, if you don’t buy into anthropogenic climate change, who gives a s**t how much CO2 China emits. Unless you want to be able to breathe fresh air someday.