Thread: China’s carbon pollution now surpasses all developed countries combined

Originally Posted by bsnub

I explained that it is

Currently increasing.

Originally Posted by bsnub

bleating on

#cheddar

trend

For the last three and a half decades, the number of coal mining jobs in the US has collapsed from 180,000 to 42,500 in August.

Here in Oz coal power generation is definitely on the decrease- but we still sell plenty of our coal to the rest of the world. But it's cleaner coal! I believe India is our biggest market here, not China. South Australia, thanks to our abundant sunshine and even wind in certain places, pretty much leads the world in renewable power generation. At times we have way more solar power than we can possibly use- and some of that gets funneled into the eastern state grids.

Originally Posted by sabang

South Australia, thanks to our abundant sunshine and even wind in certain places, pretty much leads the world in renewable power generation.

Well done

Originally Posted by sabang

At times we have way more solar power than we can possibly use- and some of that gets funneled into the eastern state grids.

On a chinese owned grid

( that'll get a rise of blood pressure with the ......TD chinky sceptics.



HongKong chinese; hehe)

^ Yes indeed. It is owned by one of Li Ka Shing's many companies. Not sure if Li himself has deemed it worthy to ever visit our humble abode.

Originally Posted by sabang

But it's cleaner coal!

No such thing as clean coal

Originally Posted by sabang

^ Yes indeed. It is owned by one of Li Ka Shing's many companies. Not sure if Li himself has deemed it worthy to ever visit our humble abode.

Trust me, you don't want him to visit. He ruined Vancouver when he came here.

Some coal are less dirty than the next one

Lignite - Wikipedia

^from your link

The combustion of lignite produces less heat for the amount of carbon dioxide and sulfur released than other ranks of coal. As a result, environmental advocates have characterized lignite as the most harmful coal to human health

Seems the US is happy to chip in and help China out with more coal...

U.S. coal production is up sharply

Now, surging global demand has chipped away at the supply. James Stevenson with IHS-Markit says coal demand is especially high in the Asia-Pacific region.


"There isn't enough coal in China," says Stevenson. "Japan's had more coal demand. So there's a scramble to buy coal from where you can."


Including from producers in the U.S.

Coal production is up in 2021. Just don't expect the same next year : NPR