Extraordinary heatwaves being recorded over the past few weeks in many Asian countries are seeing higher than normal purchases of coal for this time of year.
Just four countries now account for over half of all thermal coal imports and more than 70% of global power sector emissions from coal use, new data shows. China, India, the Philippines and Vietnam accounted for 53% of world thermal coal imports during the first four months of 2023, compared to 40% for the same period in 2022, according to data from ship tracking firm Kpler.
Asia’s imports of seaborne thermal coal surged to the highest on record in May. A total of 78.38m tonnes of coal is likely to be offloaded across Asia in May, according to Kpler.
Find it humorous, if not sad that the rest of the globe and countries of the west/Europe being driven to their knees as a result of climate activist; be it in the streets or board rooms while CCP China and others with billion, not million, billions of people import and consume more coal, not to mention China building more coal plants than any nation in the world. A lot of climate brainwashing and erosion of economics in the western and euro nations from the narrative drum beat of an environmental crisis and yet silence towards other nations. Seems pretty hypercritical if not nefariously intentional and no accident.
The only coal plants actually being built are to replace old, inefficient ones.
The PRC built wind farms with a total capacity of almost 100GW in 2020, a rise of nearly 60% on the previous year, which is more than the rest of world combined. The US built just 16.5GW.
Where is the UK? 10,973 wind turbines with a total installed capacity of over 24.2 gigawatts.
Up to 2020, there were no major UK-based wind turbine manufacturers. Most are headquartered in Denmark, Germany, the PRC and the USA
China is planning at least 150 new nuclear reactors in the next 15 years, more than the rest of the world has built in the past 35
So why aren’t the countries that put all the CO2 into the atmosphere removing it?
Why are the countries that put all the CO2 into the atmosphere now blaming India and China for everything?
Why do the countries that put all the CO2 into the atmosphere and who shifted their CO2 producing industries to the PRC now boast they are reducing their carbon footprint whilst ignoring their footprint of buying goods made in China and being transported halfway across the world?
Why is it that so many people somehow ignore these facts?
Annual Per Capita emissions.
Australia. 15.4 tonnes.
UK.6.5 tonnes.
India. 1.7 tonnes.
Canada. 15.2 tonnes.
PRC. 7.5 tonnes.
USA. 16.5 tonnes.
And India and the PRC are producing the goods demanded and purchased by the ‘West.’.
Germany is shutting down its nuclear plants in favour of brown coal ones.
Germany is the biggest source of lignite in the world, in 2016, the EU was responsible for 37.5% of global production
The Belchatow mine in Poland, at 12km long and 200m deep, is the world’s biggest
Germany’s Niederaussem plant, supplied by the Hambacher mine, ranks second in Europe for emissions of mercury
Coal damages health by producing particulates, ground-level ozone and nitrogen dioxide
Brown coal is worse than ordinary coal – for health and the climate – because more must be burned to produce the same amount of energy
Contamination from Germany and Poland stretches across Europe, including to the UK, depending on the wind direction.
Why not tell the truth?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-023-01241-8
‘In June 2017, President Donald Trump announced United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, although the exit process specified by the treaty (which Trump said the U.S. would follow) will last until at least November 4, 2020.[197] Trump states that dropping out the agreement will create more job opportunities in the United States, but it may actually have the opposite effect by stifling the renewable energy industries.[198] At the same time, Trump administration shut down the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s climate change web pages and removed mentions of the topic elsewhere on the site.’
‘The Trump administration also moved to increase fossil fuel consumption and roll back environmental policies that are considered to be burdensome to businesses.’
The major deniers and funders of deniers are in the USA, including Exxon of course and numerous powerful politicians.
“Seems pretty hypercritical if not nefariously intentional and no accident.” That you post so much disinformation. The question is why? Brainwashing? Willful ignorance? Cult membership?
‘These are the 130 current members of Congress who have doubted or denied climate change’
https://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-and-republicans-congress-global-warming-2019-2
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/07/us-hotbed-climate-change-denial-international-poll
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/31/podesta-debt-deal-hits-dem-resistance-00099456
https://www.yahoo.com/news/big-oil-far-lying-climate-100000786.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZWNvc2lhLm9yZy8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABeAEQAWLN-jeTSe8j7M-LM5BqwULZhzBv_WkMBxcXUZwBLrmtrN2-rlK-br9QIQiP9U_E-J5HtFvVAsxNJdV-BrcHULv5ki-qxTaVFhpk4f-E2q-Puxq0pDYuSXceSENxIiDtxLt1TbM3esfnXx4sYPrvcc4An_1pl0U9prtC35