1/31/13, "The Growing Irrelevance of U.S. Climate Policy," Marlo Lewis, GlobalWarming.org
"Today’s Climatewire (subscription required) summarizes data and projections from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) from
which we may conclude that EPA regulation of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is
increasingly irrelevant to global climate change even if one accepts
agency’s view of climate science.
Basically, it all comes down to
the fact that China’s huge and increasing coal consumption overwhelms
any reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions the EPA might achieve.
From the Climatewire article:
"Chinese
coal consumption surged for a 12th consecutive year in 2011, with the
country burning 2.3 billion tons of the carbon-emitting mineral to run
power plants, industrial boilers and other equipment to support its
economic and population growth.
In a simple but striking chart published on its website, the U.S.
Energy Information Administration plotted China’s progress as the
world’s dominant coal-consuming country, shooting past rival economies
like the United States, India and Russia as well as regional powers such
as Japan and South Korea.
China’s ravenous appetite for coal
stems from a 200 percent increase in Chinese electric generation since
2000, fueled primarily by coal. Graph courtesy of U.S. Energy
Information Administration.
In fact, according to EIA, the
325-million-ton increase in Chinese coal consumption in 2011 accounted
for 87 percent of the entire world’s growth for the year, which was
estimated at 374 million tons. Since 2000, China has accounted for 82
percent of the world’s coal demand growth, with a 2.3-billion-ton surge,
the agency said.
“China now accounts for 47 percent of global
coal consumption — almost as much as the rest of the world combined,”
EIA said of the latest figures.
Climatewire also observes:
"The rising
consumption numbers reflect a 200-plus percent increase in Chinese
electricity generation since 2000, with most of the new power coming
from coal-fired power plants. Chinese growth averaged 9 percent per year
from 2000 to 2010, more than twice the 4 percent global growth rate for
coal consumption. And when China is excluded from the tally, growth in
coal use averaged only 1 percent for the rest of the world over the
2000-2010 period, according to EIA. . . .
According to the
Paris-based International Energy Agency, China’s share in global coal
consumption is more than twice that of the demand for oil in the United
States. And last year China reigned as both the world’s No. 1 coal
producer (3.7 billion metric tons) and the world’s top buyer of foreign
coal, with an estimated 270 million tons of imports, according to the
China Coal Transportation and Distribution Association.
In its
latest projections on global coal demand, issued last month, IEA said
that by 2017 coal will come close to surpassing oil as the world’s
leading energy source, with every region of the world except the United
States relying more heavily on the carbon-intensive energy resource.
In
fact, the world will burn around 1.2 billion more tons of coal per year
in 2017 than it does today — an amount equal to the current coal
consumption of Russia and the United States combined, IEA noted.""
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Above, August, 2007: “China’s industrial growth depends on coal, plentiful but polluting, from mines like this one in Shenmu, Shaanxi Province, behind a village store,” NY Times
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George Soros gave Ivanka's husband's business a $250 million credit line in 2015 per WSJ. Soros is also an investor in Jared's business.
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