Report: World’s coal use creeps to new high in 2022

The Associated Press ^ | December 16, 2022 | By FRANK JORDANS

[Oldeconomybuyer]

BERLIN (AP) — Coal use across the world is set to reach a new record this year amid persistently high demand for the heavily polluting fossil fuel, the International Energy Agency said Friday.

The Paris-based agency said in a new report that while coal use grew by only 1.2% in 2022, the increase pushed it to all all-time high of more than 8 billion metric tons, beating the previous record set in 2013.

“The world’s coal consumption will remain at similar levels in the following years in the absence of stronger efforts to accelerate the transition to clean energy,” the agency said, noting that “robust demand” in emerging Asian economies would offset declining use in mature markets.

“This means coal will continue to be the global energy system’s largest single source of carbon dioxide emissions by far,” the IAE said.

The use of coal and other fossil fuels needs to be cut drastically to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) this century. Experts say the ambitious target, which governments agreed to in the 2015 Paris climate accord, will be hard to meet given that average temperatures worldwide have already risen by 1.2 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times.

[Carriage Hill]

Good!
FU eco-wacko scumbags!

[dennisw]

My mother was from Coal Country PA so I like it! Her parents had a general store there.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The solubility of CO₂ in water is inversely proportional to temperature

Since CO₂ is soluble in water and the oceans cover a majority of the Earth's surface, the oceans sequester more CO₂ than any other CO₂ sink.

Because of the inverse solubility of CO₂ with temperature, the colder the oceans get, the more CO₂ they can absorb.

Conversely, when the oceans get warmer, they expel CO_2.

Atmospheric CO₂ therefore follows global temperatures, it does not cause them.

You can see the yearly global atmospheric CO₂ fluctuation as the oceans warm and cool with the seasons in the NOAA graph below.

The "settled science" that CO₂ causes "climate change" is therefore criminal sophistry.

[Red Badger]

[drSteve78]

There is Pie in the Sky Wishing, and then there is the harsh reality that can’t be changed. Stopping the use of fossil fuels is easy; just stop using them. The reality will be a huge population of cold hungry people walking with pitchforks and anger.

[Shady]

And besides, CO2 is plant food, without it we DIE.

[BobL]

...and assuming that Russia wins in Ukraine, they’ll be free to export their HUGE amounts coal, oil, and gas to countries around the world (other than the US and Europe).

And people think this war has something to do with Ukraine, LOL.

[Pollard]

CANADA - The Net Zero delusion.

🤡Canada ships 3.96 million tonnes of coal to China, up 84%

🤡China uses the coal in the manufacture of solar panels

🤡Canada buys solar panels from China!

🤡Canada pats itself on the back for being a climate change NET ZERO leader!

[butlerweave]

Coal will save the world , again ,LOL

[Dilbert San Diego]

Has Greta Thunberg weighed in on this?

[jerod]

[dennisw]

Yikes your gif cat said in advance what I was thinking.

[dennisw]

Who is your very cool cat? He needs to be seen more at FR and everywhere

[woodbutcher1963]

How Dare you.

[1Old Pro]

When the government limits certain kinds of energy, other kinds of energy is used.

[COBOL2Java]

When I see someone boasting about their recently-purchased all-electric vehicle, I ask “Nice! Does it run on Anthracite or Bituminous?

[Salman]

Could it be the climate change people finally pushed a little too hard?

[AZJeep]

Unfortunately, the increase is mostly in China, India and the other “developing” countries.
We are still screwed!

[teeman8r]

Cow.Deer.Ewe.