Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to the New York Times, China has to step in as the global climate champion because President Trump.
Trump Is Unwilling to Tackle Climate Change. China Must Step Up.
China can do more. The planet depends on it.
By Daniel K. Gardner
Professor Gardner is the author of “Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know.”
Dec. 10, 2018…
With the Trump administration unwilling to confront climate change, the world needs a more deeply committed China. A recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the present rate, by 2040, coastlines will be inundated, droughts and floods will intensify and food shortages will be widespread. So the world is facing an immense challenge, made much more difficult by an American president who believes coal, oil and gas are the fuels that will drive America’s return to greatness.
Fortunately, there is no climate change denier movement in China. Political leaders and scientific experts there agree that the planet is warming, that the warming is owing to human activity, that China is responsible for much of it, and that the country is already experiencing its effects, including glacier retreat in the Qinghai-Tibet region and drought in the Hai, Yellow and Huai river areas.
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For one, it [China] must stop financing and building coal-fired power plants around the world. China has made reducing coal production and consumption a high priority at home, but Chinese energy companies are behind more than 200 new coal-fired power plants around the world that are either planned or under construction. Fighting a “war on pollution” and calling for “building an ecological civilization” at home while promoting the use of dirty coal in less developed countries makes China look hypocritical, even colonial. Instead, Beijing can and should be exporting the renewable energy technology that it has been so aggressively developing. With this clean energy, underdeveloped countries could leapfrog the outworn development model that sacrifices environmental well-being for economic growth.
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We live in a world in which global mistrust of China is widespread, and with ample reason: the military buildup in the South China Sea, the mass internment of Uighurs, human rights abuses, the disregard for intellectual property rights and more. But that mistrust shouldn’t blind us to the reality that in fighting climate change, the nations of the world are on the same side. We should cheer China on whenever it takes steps to reduce carbon emissions — especially as the Trump administration sits by idly.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/opinion/china-trump-climate-change.html
Al Jazeera accuses China of holding a million Uighurs in brutal concentration camps.
War could break out at any moment in the South China Sea, thanks to China’s aggressive pursuit of absurd claims that they own the South China Sea.
The Chinese government has repeatedly demonstrated utter contempt for international norms, such as when they recently arrested the head of Interpol, possibly because he refused to issue international arrest warrants against Chinese dissidents.
But greens like Professor Gardner seem willing to overlook these provocations, abuses and crimes against humanity, if China provides a firm commitment to help reduce global CO2 emissions.
[Wikipedia] Baizuo : is a derogatory Chinese neologism used to refer to Western leftist liberal elites….
Boy, you can just trip over the irony in that headline alone.
“…by 2040, coastlines will be inundated, droughts and floods will intensify and food shortages will be widespread.”
I saw that, and I have to ask: Did someone move the CAGW date again, and nobody told me?
It’s supposed to snow again today. Could someone please send some of thet global warming my way? Thanks!!!!
Haven’t you heard? Global warming is WHY it’s snowing.
But wasn’t Global Warming supposed to make snow a thing of the past? Children wouldn’t even know what snow is.
That’s a hard one to sell during a snow storm – it’s a lot easier to simply blame whatever DOES occur on AGW.
Or, to quote Larry Tate: “That was yesterday. Can’t keep living in the past, y’ know.”
Indeed, which is why they were selling the “snow is a thing of the past” during a year with hardly any snow in the UK.
I have no hair left to pull out. The idiocy as palpable. So we will control the climate and weather by taxation, is that it?
No. But they WILL control the population.
Joel Snider
Unfortunately, not the follicles.
China laughs at Western CACA spewers. The Communist regime is only too happy to sell us wind turbines and solar panels, which our environmental laws make it impossible to build here, while themselves constructing new coal plants as rapidly as they can. And the US won’t even sell them our high BTU, low pollutant coal, because “death trains”.
Insanity. Lenin was right that useful idiotic capitalists would sell him the rope with which to hang us. Although no coal.
The NYT obviously did not get the memo:
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The Road From Paris: China’s Climate U-Turn
Date: 12/12/18
Press Release, Global Warming Policy Foundation
For all its green talk, China is sticking to fossil fuels
London, 12 December – While leaders of western countries fret about their greenhouse gas emissions in Katowice, China is forging ahead with new projects and investments in coal and gas. According to a new paper from the Global Warming Foundation (GWPF), the Communist Party’s survival depends on delivering economic growth and cleaner air.
As the report’s author Patricia Adams explains:
“The Chinese have spent a lot of money on renewables without results on anything like the scale required. So despite their continuing outward support for the green agenda, China is actually going all out for fossil fuels. The Communist Party’s grip on power depends on it.”
As a result, analysts expect China’s coal production to continue to grow, with increases of 10 percent likely in the next two years. Such changes dwarf any reductions that are likely in western countries
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More at https://www.thegwpf.org/the-road-from-paris-chinas-climate-u-turn/
It’s not a U-turn when it’s exactly the road and direction they were planning on going all along. Their Paris commitment was to continue increasing their emissions until 2030. And so far they are keeping to that commitment.
John Endicott
Laughably, I doth think the muppets who agreed Paris with China understood what they were getting themselves into.
Now they are panicking because China has gone haywire with coal plants, cutting subsidies to renewables etc. but they can’t admit they were so politically blind they didn’t know it would happen.
Someone should use the phrase, “The Paris-China border.” It was featured in one of JD Salinger’s “Nine Stories.”
There is a significant ground hog day factor to climate science. New day same drivel. A continuous wall of distorted noise.
Happy ground hog day.
NYT: “Fortunately, there is no climate change denier movement in China” There are no “deniers” anywhere! It’s a BS derogatory term for those who refuse to drink the kool aid of climate communism. I do find it hilariously ironic that they are actually appealing to the communists for help openly. This “professor” and all “scientists” who are fear mongering should be ashamed of themselves.
Indeed, and they are looking to the country whose “Paris climate commitment” was to keep increasing their CO2 emissions for the next decade+
Just lol.
– there is no alarmist movement in China
– there is no free speech – for they would not like to have an alarmist movement
– China is building coal like hell and continuing under Paris ‘agreement’ doing so.
– Trump has had a minimal effect on what Obama didn’t do; there is no point in stabbing Trump since the difference in emissions development is not flattering to Obama.
– the NYT has given room for a useful idiot
– ” must stop financing and building coal-fired power plants around the world.” (oh, since you say, well then)
– “the world needs a more deeply committed China” – did you just say there are no deniers in China?
I assume professor Gardner has a PHD, but then anybody can get a PHD in anything now days given the time and money. Just wondering in what field his PHD is? Not that it really matters though I would like to see a ranking of schools regarding some form of measurement on those giving out worthless PHDs vs those which are more selective about who gets one on what basis other than school politics.
If you got the education welfare check grant you got the PHD. It’s as simple as that here in the US nowadays.
“… no climate change denier movement in China …”
Perhaps, that’s because the entire government has treated climate change with distain.
It’s easy to be in compliance when you can and will open new coal plats without comment.
Taphonomic,
It was actually president “from-this-moment-the-oceans-will-stop-rising” Obama who gave the Chinese a free emissions pass until 2030 when the US and Chinese signed a bi-lateral agreement in November 2014 (one year before COP 21 in Paris) allowing China to increase emissions at will while the US cut its emissions by 25% over the same time frame. It was a nice end run on COP 21 and, of course, the sheeple attending the 2015 Paris gabfest uttered not a bleat of complaint nor noted the hypocrisy. But that would be normal for the tame AGW flock.
The good professor is in denial.
There is no contrarian movement in China because contrary views are not allowed. The good professor also appears to be blind to the fact that China is a totalitarian state.
Only in democracies can dissenting voices be raised without the fear of ultimate sanction.
I know that the mass communication media in the west range disproportionately represent the views of the left wing, but there are some who speak for right-minded people. Can he point to any balancing voices in China.
There was one. But he got run over by a tank in Tianamen Square.
https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/china-was-the-climate-champion-of-paris-now-its-doing-a-complete-u-turn
NYT is just a bit clueless
The facts be damned. We know the Climate Believer movement is all about what feels good. If it sounds even slightly believable and makes big corporate greenies happy then it must be true. The NYT agenda has been obvious for years and anyone who looks at news objectively knows where the bias is on both sides of the aisle. The sad thing is when the fat bureaucratic environmentalist lobbyist cronies actually get their way we see what happens in Paris. If the masses in California weren’t indoctrinated from birth about how evil the human race is the same thing would have long ago happened there.
NYT is clueless indeed, it’s not a U-turn when you are just continuing in the same direction you always were. China’s only commitment was to “peak” their emissions in 2030 which means they are free to increase emissions as much as they want until then and they’ll still be meeting their Paris agreements. And that’s exactly what they are doing, there’s no U-turns there.
And what a shock (sarc) to hear today China may not follow the rule of law”. Ya think????
There are no climate change believers in China, at least believers of the warming kind. China is building railroads in Africa, e.g. Trans-African railway, positioned to prosper from the greening of the desert. Future exports including food will be going to China. China is expecting a cooling climate.
And what a shock (sarc) to hear today China may not follow the rule of law”. Ya think???? https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/arrest-of-former-canadian-diplomat-suggests-china-doesn-t-respect-the-rule-of-law-says-former-ambassador-1.4941373?fbclid=IwAR1ixGREtIYjNWVGsUzwZGO9IQdJw7_Z2wyzxJLfEERZ9LLL5vE4KlyOsgo
I’m shocked, shocked to find that China doesn’t follow the rule of law (with apologies to Captain Renault)
Oh my, where to begin…
Apparently this New York Times “reporter” doesn’t know there are more Christians in China (~300,000,000) than Christians in the US (total population ~320,000,000).
And Christians tend to revere their God more than the State (especially an all-controlling Communist regime).
Such Christians are perfect “deniers”– they view a warmer (?) earth with more CO2 as a greener, more hospitable place!
What’s not to like?
Foodstuff production is up 15-25% in the past 50 years due to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere! At the same time, tree growth has been estimated to be from 30 to 70% higher (depending on variety)!
In a place like China where survival for a significant part of their population is directly linked to crop yield and wood production, God-fearing people would find additional CO2 to be a blessing rather than a curse like CAGW alarmists would have us believe.
Yes, Christian people make perfect “deniers”!
And the New York Times strikes out again!
Can Dr. Gardner actually be that naive? That China is a TRUE BELIEVER in the Church of Changing Climate? They’re building coal plants all over the world, for themselves and others, they are the largest producer of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, they have the highest concentration of CFCs, since they keep using them, what would it take for this fool to get the message?
The air in Beijing is yellow, the rivers are a ghastly color, they use lead paint on children’s toys. Their obvious leftism is the only thing he believes in, and thus it allows him to ignore that most environmental calamities, take place in socialist/communist countries, where there is no reporting of them, and nobody responsible, because the government says so.
Can Dr. Gardner actually be that naive? That China is a TRUE BELIEVER in the Church of Changing Climate?
China is a true believer in the church of changing climate – only to the extent that they can benefit from the West’s economic suicide while not having to commit to performing the same self-immolation for themselves. Ask them to participate in the self-inflicted economic destruction and they’ll give it a hard pass.
Totalitarianism simplifies everything.
Who can forget the warm reception climate skeptics recieved when they went to Beijing to enlighten China with the Mardarin translation of Fred Singer & Jeff Idso’s NIPCC Report ?
https://tinyurl.com/y6vo4wqx
I had a “climate change” movement myself, just this morning.
Been backed up for a few days have ya?
The NYT is NOT a wholly owned subsidiary of the democrat party. The Communist Chinese owns a big chunk of them too.
“Trump Is Unwilling to Tackle Climate Change. China Must Step Up.”
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LMAO!
Emissions are going down in the US. Fossil fuel use is skyrocketing in China and emissions are rising accordingly. China has committed to making no effort to cut emissions.
How did they get it so backwards? If they really care about cutting emissions, they should be encouraging China to follow America’s example.
Clearly the author of this screed doesnot read WWUT or he would have known that:
“China is building coal power again” December 9, 201
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/12/09/china-is-building-coal-power-again/
See. I am paying attention.