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For developing world to quit coal, rich countries must eliminate oil and gas faster, says new study
phys.org ^ | 02/17/2023

Posted on 02/17/2023 11:04:14 AM PST by devane617

Limiting how much coal countries can burn is considered an urgent priority for restraining global heating. After all, coal is the most carbon-rich of all fossil fuels and its combustion has contributed the most to planetary warming. For the first time in international talks, negotiators agreed to "phase down" coal use to prevent global temperature rise exceeding 1.5°C in the 2021 Glasgow Climate Pact.

Coal's primacy in climate negotiations is partly because of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has devised pathways to halting warming at 1.5°C. These scientific assessments prioritize the rapid phasing out of coal burning not only for the fuel's carbon intensity and the need to head off CO₂ accumulation in the atmosphere, but also to encourage the availability of cost-competitive alternatives in the form of solar and wind farms.

Researchers also stress the importance of decarbonizing the power sector early in the green transition to enable other sectors, such as transport and industry, to run on clean electricity from the grid.

This puts the onus on certain nations to reduce emissions faster than others. The majority of global coal use can be found in emerging and developing countries, such as China and India. Here, large fleets of power stations and factories rely on coal which is cheap and abundant compared to other fossil fuels. By framing the solution to climate change as one in which coal is removed first, it is these countries that must commit to rapidly decarbonizing in the next decade.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloggers; carbon; climatechange; climatechangefraud; climatechangehoax; coal; crisismongering; fakenews; fearporn; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; ipcc; naturalgas; newsforumabuse; societalsuicide; untiednations
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Sometimes there's just not enough words, so, a SMDH is all I can do. The polluters can pollute while America is forced to the electrical stone-age.
1 posted on 02/17/2023 11:04:14 AM PST by devane617
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Nah, don’t quit coal, quit insanity.


2 posted on 02/17/2023 11:05:25 AM PST by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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Stupidity is a virus. You catch it from the media..................


3 posted on 02/17/2023 11:06:07 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Uh, no. Next ridiculous statement which, if implemented, guarantees civil war, please.


4 posted on 02/17/2023 11:06:24 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: toddausauras

And move to nuclear (4th gen reactors)


5 posted on 02/17/2023 11:06:33 AM PST by curious7
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To: devane617

I identify as Indian or Chinese, so I can use all the Evil Carbon that I want.


6 posted on 02/17/2023 11:08:51 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: devane617

Gee, I wonder how then the Heinz fortune boy is able to jet around the world lecturing about climate change?


7 posted on 02/17/2023 11:09:52 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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“I identify as Indian or Chinese, so I can use all the Evil Carbon that I want.”

...while America pays the bills.


8 posted on 02/17/2023 11:10:06 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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I’m sure the members of the IPCC will have plenty of fuel to fly their private jets from one country to the next.


9 posted on 02/17/2023 11:10:15 AM PST by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: toddausauras

The future of children born today, if the left wins.

10 posted on 02/17/2023 11:10:27 AM PST by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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To: devane617

Gas faster? Gas what faster? Their citizens of course.


11 posted on 02/17/2023 11:11:04 AM PST by sjmjax
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To: kiryandil

I would LOVE to be in the room with Trump as he reads this article.


12 posted on 02/17/2023 11:11:19 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: Red Badger
I cut my cable in 2004, and don't even watch broadcast TeeVee.

When I see a commercial on TeeVee at a friend's house [maybe once or twice a year], it's really weird.

I also know how to bypass the YouTube commercials...

13 posted on 02/17/2023 11:11:21 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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China is building coal fired power plants.
Tell them to “Cut it out!”
That’ll fix it


14 posted on 02/17/2023 11:14:20 AM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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If the nutsos want to quit coal.. go find an island and live there.
Why don’t you left Godless self appointed kings, leave the rest of us alone. This derailment in OH and the lack of concern for 5000 “insignificant” people living there ... and burning it for hours... where are the brains!!

You “important” people who are educated and have a high position of control... you lack any common sense.. Leaning on what the education gave .. you forgot about just plain common sense.


15 posted on 02/17/2023 11:18:24 AM PST by frnewsjunkie
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For the first time in international talks, negotiators agreed to “phase down” coal use to prevent global temperature rise exceeding 1.5°C in the 2021 Glasgow Climate Pact.


I could be wrong. But I’m not researching.
But isn’t warming, according to them, already 1.5C above Pre industrial temps?

Looks like they are moving the goalposts again. Just based on my own observations, which is by no means scientific, my area is actually cooling year to year. I don’t have a bunch of temp sensors sitting by my AC exhaust or anything. But being outside, a lot, and observing just normal day to day living, you know, golf, work, hiking etc....it hasn’t been as hot in the summer as was usual years ago.

But of course, that’s just regional....Which is pretty much what all weather is right?

Oh well, too cool...Global warming. Too wet. Same. Too dry. Climate change. Too hot, Warming....They always use examples that are regional then if your region is different then discount it as weather. Why is that?


16 posted on 02/17/2023 11:22:17 AM PST by saleman
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To: devane617

Once China quits burning coal, we can then move on. And China isn’t a developing country anymore than West Virginia is.


17 posted on 02/17/2023 11:22:56 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (“Racist” is the new “Nazi”.)
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I would LOVE to be in the room with Trump as he reads this article.

Flame retardant suit required...

18 posted on 02/17/2023 11:25:04 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: devane617
yeah...


19 posted on 02/17/2023 11:27:18 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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They don’t want us to own firearms. They don’t want us eating meat. They don’t want us using so called fossil fuels. They demand we take the clot shot because we shouldn’t have autonomy over our own bodies (except of course for women, or those who identify as such when they want abortions) Klaus Slob doesn’t want us to own anything. Yeah, there’s a pattern here 🤬


20 posted on 02/17/2023 11:27:33 AM PST by Impala64ssa (If a liar's pants really did catch on fire CBC, ABC, CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
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