Under Biden the US was actually moving in the right direction with the Inflation Reduction Act. That would have helped a lot, but the American people rather elected Trump again.
Yes and most of the news about China was specifically about shutting down the United States. So when I read those stories I just feel it’s propaganda. Regardless of what shit hole the United States is in, absolutely no data from China can be trusted.
Even taking the Chinese government at its word, they’re getting ~60% of their energy from Coal, and are opening new coal-fired power plants at a pace not matched by any other industrialized country. Framing their solar adventures as anything other than supplementary power for their growing fossil fuel economy is wildly irresponsible. China is #1 producing 3x the CO2 as the next largest producer (United States) and they’re not resting on their laurels.
People in the pro-Xi camp might claim China is planning to transition to renewables based on the rate of growth of their alternative energy sector, but that’s not a claim the Party has ever made or is likely to make. Their top priority is growing their economy, preventing global warming isn’t even on the list. They over-produced solar because it seemed like the west was signalling they were going in that direction, but now that demand is depressed, they’re likely to cut back production. Based on the Chinese government numbers on installed capacity vs. actual solar energy power use, they’re sending surplus panels to the Tibetan desert to rot.
The reporters at NPR are pining for more competent authoritarians. They don’t care about global warming either, or they’d do actual journalism on the subject.
Analysis of the China’s own plans, and projections, shows we will still hit heights that will destroy the world as we know it, and might still end up in an minor runaway warming period that could be an extinction event in the long term.
The headline implies the US was ever in the running for climate solutions
Under Biden the US was actually moving in the right direction with the Inflation Reduction Act. That would have helped a lot, but the American people rather elected Trump again.
Yes and most of the news about China was specifically about shutting down the United States. So when I read those stories I just feel it’s propaganda. Regardless of what shit hole the United States is in, absolutely no data from China can be trusted.
Even taking the Chinese government at its word, they’re getting ~60% of their energy from Coal, and are opening new coal-fired power plants at a pace not matched by any other industrialized country. Framing their solar adventures as anything other than supplementary power for their growing fossil fuel economy is wildly irresponsible. China is #1 producing 3x the CO2 as the next largest producer (United States) and they’re not resting on their laurels.
People in the pro-Xi camp might claim China is planning to transition to renewables based on the rate of growth of their alternative energy sector, but that’s not a claim the Party has ever made or is likely to make. Their top priority is growing their economy, preventing global warming isn’t even on the list. They over-produced solar because it seemed like the west was signalling they were going in that direction, but now that demand is depressed, they’re likely to cut back production. Based on the Chinese government numbers on installed capacity vs. actual solar energy power use, they’re sending surplus panels to the Tibetan desert to rot.
The reporters at NPR are pining for more competent authoritarians. They don’t care about global warming either, or they’d do actual journalism on the subject.
Analysis of the China’s own plans, and projections, shows we will still hit heights that will destroy the world as we know it, and might still end up in an minor runaway warming period that could be an extinction event in the long term.
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