Posted on 05/15/2023 2:41:25 AM PDT by dennisw
Bangkok, Thailand
China, the world’s top polluter, has emitted record carbon dioxide in the first quarter of this year, with emissions set to rise to an all-time high in 2023, according to a new report published on Friday.
CO2 emissions grew by 4% in the first three months of 2023 compared to last year, to hit a quarterly record high of more than 3 billion metric tons, according to an analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), a Finland-based independent organization.
The analysis is based on official figures and commercial data and was first published on the Carbon Brief news website.
The authors of the report said the increase was driven by a robust economic rebound after the end of China’s extended and much-criticized zero-COVID policy, stimulus measures in manufacturing and construction sectors, and weak hydropower generation due to low rainfall and ongoing drought.
“Looking at the rest of the year, the government’s focus on economic growth means that China’s emissions are likely to reach an all-time high in 2023, topping the previous peak in 2021,” CREA analysts Lauri Myllyvirta and Qi Qin said in the report.
Typically, the first quarter has the lowest emissions since things slow down during the annual Lunar New Year celebrations.
The most significant contributors to the growth in emissions were coal-powered electricity generation and higher production of construction materials, mainly steel and cement.
The increase in heavy industry production and emissions has raised worries about reversing recent air quality progress, particularly in Beijing, as the government last year broke its streak since 2017 of issuing air pollution action plans that limit heavy industry from spewing bad air.
Question of priorities
That has been interpreted to signify that industrial growth is prioritized over air quality.
Approvals for new coal power capacity, which increased sharply in the second half of last year, continued to rise this year, with at least 10 gigawatts (GW) of coal power projects approved in the first quarter of 2023.
The restrictions placed on the USA and other western countries is not to prevent climate change. It is to allow developing countries to catch up to our economic status.
So they want to take my wood stove ,Gas stove and air conditioner, but China & India can keep poisoning the environment without any push back at all. WTF!
I think you may have misspelled OVERTAKE...
But seriously, a coal plant coming on line every week (something like that) and we call them a “developing” nation and exclude them from any ECO save the world climate rules.
Maybe we should all burn a tire once a week and get this party started.
I'd love to have beach front property.Right now I'm about 600 ft el, so at an inch or so a decade that's just not going to get it.
More plant food!
You are correct sir. I know that sucks, but that is the BS reality.
And once these “developing nations” have caught up with the US, does that mean they will then magically gain a conscience and voluntarily REDUCE their emissions?
Hell, no, they won’t. They will just keep on introducing their smog and spew ever more particulate carbon, sulfur and various nitrogen oxides into the air, all of which actually ARE contaminants. The carbon dioxide produced is of no significance whatsoever, as it is consumed by green growing plants, that is, if sunlight can penetrate the miasma of smog that clings to most of the lower regions of the atmosphere all over the world. Think Pittsburgh in 1946, when automobiles had to drive about with headlights on at noon.
Pittsburgh got cleaned up, but at what cost? They lost most of their steel smelting capacity, and much of the heavy industrial infrastructure.
Today, steel is smelted in electrically powered furnaces, and rolled in plants located within easy transportation to the point of consumption. But to make this work, we need electric generation capability both abundant and cheap, which surprisingly enough, can be made with far less coal consumption, replaced by natural gas, and yes, nuclear energy.
These two sources will be our bridge to the future. If there is to be a bridge to the future.
What Western Maoists refuse to acknowledge is that for every relatively clean coal fired power plant that the West shuts down Red china brings a dozen online.And for every gas stove that we shut down Red China installs five.
I thought Communist Chinese CO2 doesn’t affect global warming. That only CO2 from the wealthy capitalist countries causes global warming.
But this is OK, this is China. They pay out billions each year to our masters to keep us in control.
Now if farmer John’s cow farts, that’s a federal offense.
BTTT
“And for every gas stove that we shut down Red China installs five.”
Gas stoves are the ultimate. Wealthy people will buy 6 burner gas stoves with built in griddle and ovens that can cost over $6,000. Restaurants use gas stoves. Poor people in 3rd world countries... They know they have it made when they can afford a two burner gas stove hooked into a 20lb propane tank, that we use for outdoors BBQs.
Only eco-idiots object to gas stoves and gas heat for the house. Oil heat is good too. It is bizarre to want to have more electricity buzzing around in your house/ home for cooking and heating your house. Using oil and gas at home is organic.
See how well Biden and the stooges plan is working planning works huh Moe.
In other news, China agreed to pay the rest of the world ten trillion dollars a year in carbon credits.....
oh wait.
Pittsburgh is a great example of what the elites have in store for the rest of us.
Population figures:
1960: 604K
1970: 520K
1980: 423K
1990: 370K
2000: 334K
2010: 305K
Now: 300K
They want us dead..while China rolls on....
That means the USA has to stop heating our homes and cooking with gas and stop driving our cars and no more air-conditioning, stop growing gardens ,farms must grow bugs and all US men should get castrated . That will help!
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