But according to the cult China is the good guy and leading the way in solar while America is the bad guy and evil Trump the non believer won't even sign the Paris accord. What happened? "China’s carbon emissions are on track to rise at their fastest pace in more than seven years during 2018, casting further doubt on the ability of the Paris climate change agreement to curb dangerous greenhouse gas increases, according to a Greenpeace analysis based on Beijing’s own data. Carbon emissions in the country, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, rose 4 per cent in the first quarter of this year, according to calculations by the environmental group based on Chinese government statistics covering coal, cement, oil and gas. If that pace continues it would be the fastest increase since 2011. The latest finding comes as climate researchers express concern over rising emissions in China, which accounts for more than a quarter of global carbon dioxide output." https://www.ft.com/content/98839504-6334-11e8-90c2-9563a0613e56 Dramatic surge in China carbon emissions signals climate danger https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/05/30/china-co2-carbon-climate-emissions-rise-in-2018/
China is America's manufacturing center. AMERICA HAS CONTROL OVER MANUFACTURING IN CHINA. People will helplessly throw their hands up and say 'What can we do? It's in another country?' but as long as America is the one paying for it, it's in America's hands. (not just America, also EU countries, Australia, Canada, etc.) Americans outsourcing their pollution to China Probably Trump's tariffs will do more than anything else to cut down pollution.
Ahh so once again it's Americas fault. LOL I do agree on one thing though and have said it before. The left has put unreasonable rules and regulations on industry in America so industry moves somewhere else with virtually no rules at all and the greenies in this country think it's some kind of ecological victory. In reality all they did was make things worse.
China Aims to Spend at Least $360 Billion on Renewable Energy by 2020 China intends to spend more than $360 billion through 2020 on renewable power sources like solar and wind, the government’s energy agency said on Thursday. The country’s National Energy Administration laid out a plan to dominate one of the world’s fastest-growing industries, just at a time when the United States is set to take the opposite tack as Donald J. Trump, a climate-change doubter, prepares to assume the presidency. The agency said in a statement that China would create more than 13 million jobs in the renewable energy sector by 2020, curb the growth of greenhouse gasses that contribute to global warming and reduce the amount of soot that in recent days has blanketed Beijing and other Chinese cities in a noxious cloud of smog. China surpassed the United States a decade ago as the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gasses, and now discharges about twice as much. For years, its oil and coal industries prospered under powerful political patrons and the growth-above-anything mantra of the ruling Communist Party. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/world/asia/china-renewable-energy-investment.html 2017 China Electric Car Sales Blow World Out Of The Water — BAIC EC-Series Is A Superstar The rise and rise of the Chinese plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market is unstoppable, with yet another record performance in December. A total of 102,000 new passenger PEVs were registered last month, up 130% year over year. Yes, that was just December, and it pulled the year-to-date count to over 600,000 units, up 71% compared to 2016. As consequence of this rapid growth, in December, the PEV share hit a record 3.3% market share of the entire Chinese auto market, while the entire 2017 PEV market share ended at 2.1%. That’s firmly ahead of last year’s score (1.5%) and above the USA (1.2%) and Europe (~1.9%). The Chinese PEV market represented roughly half of the 1.2 million plug-ins sold worldwide in 2017, while Chinese carmakers made 47% of all PEVs sold last year. https://tinyurl.com/ybe5rcb7 Our future at being the world’s great leader is coming to an end. Soon we, i.e. the us will fall into the category of a third world economy if we do not wake up soooon! Ask Trump what we should do and he will reply; what do "I" get out of it?
China's latest energy megaprojects show that coal is really on the way out Leanna Garfield - May. 9, 2018 China's latest energy megaprojects show that coal is really on the way out "....To improve the country's air quality, the Chinese government vows to spend at least $360 billion on clean energy projects and create 13 million new renewable energy jobs by 2020. China's latest energy megaprojects — two giant solar farms in Anhui, one of which will go online in May — could get the country closer to that goal. In late 2017, the country built a massive floating solar farm on top of a former coal mine that had collapsed and flooded. This year marks China's fourth anniversary since it started a "war on pollution," and there's reason to believe the country is making headway Looking at over 200 monitors throughout China, a new analysis found that Chinese cities have cut concentrations of fine particulates — often considered the deadliest type of pollution — by 32% on average since 2013. China is already one of the world's biggest investors in alternative energy sources like solar, wind, and hydropower. The two new solar farms signal the slow decline of fossil fuels like coal in China and other countries around the world. ** China is one of the biggest countries to make a significant move Away from coal. Last year, the country Cancelled 104 new coal plants that were in development across 13 provinces.**
China still has almost double the CO2 emissions as the U.S. And coal accounted for over 60% of their total energy consumption in 2017. It looks like their consumption of coal has been going down over the last few years but only very slightly, it's still at 95% of what it's peak was in 2012-2013. And even that's not all rosy news, since a large part of that 5% decrease in coal has been offset by an increase natural gas and oil consumption. It might be more like a 0.6% decrease in fossil fuel consumption. China's 2018 coal consumption rose after three-year decline
I have been hearing these promises from China and China sychophants on the left for many years now but the reality is far different than the promises. "China’s carbon emissions are on track to rise at their fastest pace in more than seven years during 2018, casting further doubt on the ability of the Paris climate change agreement to curb dangerous greenhouse gas increases, according to a Greenpeace analysis based on Beijing’s own data. Carbon emissions in the country, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, rose 4 per cent in the first quarter of this year, according to calculations by the environmental group based on Chinese government statistics covering coal, cement, oil and gas. If that pace continues it would be the fastest increase since 2011. The latest finding comes as climate researchers express concern over rising emissions in China, which accounts for more than a quarter of global carbon dioxide output."
They are not making these promises to us, they are making these promises to there own people. Whether they keep this promise is China's peoples problem, not ours. Having said that the idea of getting off of our dependence on fossile fuel is a good idea that the USA should commit too reguardless of what China does. In my view of things
This shows how moral leadership on the part of the USA is necessary. If the USA won't keep its promises, why should any other country?
