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Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere
(www.theguardian.com)
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China is heading towards peak coal demand, national association says
China Coal Group Says Peak Demand Imminent as Clean Power Grows
In a major turning point for the world, China’s fossil fuel use is projected to decline starting in 2025.
Blaming an increase in the rate of carbon increases on China's coal consumption seems rather incongruent with the facts. Are we all choosing to ignore the second-order effects of methane emissions from natural gas? Methane does break down back to CO2, after all, but while it's still methane it's a substantially more potent greenhouse gas.
Fuck. Natural. Gas.
Just so you know, each of the headlines you posted suggested that China's consumption of coal is more than ever before, in agreement with the prior poster. Also clean coal has nothing to do with CO2 reduction, it's scrubbing other nasties like SO2.
It's good that they're expecting this to max out imminently, but it's still a max.
Supercritical coal reactors are absolutely used to reduce CO2 emissions per unit coal, what do you mean?
Higher efficiency -> less losses from heat/etc -> fewer emissions
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding the intent here, but doesn’t “heading towards peak” literally mean “increase” in this context?
Additionally, Chinese coal power is what provides and enables all of the cheap goods Americans can't get enough of.