Reposted from NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
Harrabin strikes again!
US climate change envoy John Kerry has urged the world’s top 20 polluters which create 81% of emissions between them to reduce CO2 immediately.
He was speaking after meeting Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other senior UK figures in London to plan two upcoming international climate summits.
He praised the UK for phasing out coal, and for its “ambitious” climate goals.
But he told BBC Newsnight that the UK – along with other major nations – must deliver their proposed emissions cuts.
“China, the US, Russia, India, the EU, Korea, Japan and others all have to be part of this effort,” he said. “Twenty countries. Eighty one percent of the emissions.”
Asked during the interview whether the UK should be planning a controversial new coal mine in Cumbria, he replied: “The marketplace has made a decision that coal is not the future.
“All over the world people have made a decision to move to cleaner fuel than coal, which is the dirtiest fuel in the world. In America and elsewhere …most banks will tell you we’re not going to fund a new coal plant.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56321456
Meanwhile back in the real world:
NEW DELHI: State-run Coal India Ltd (CIL) has approved 32 mining projects in the current financial year till January, which may see investment to the tune of around Rs 47,300 crore as the company seeks to replace imports and move towards its 1 billion tonne coal production target by 2023-34.
While 24 of the 32 are an expansion of the existing projects, the rest eight are new greenfield projects. “Scripting a record high…CIL approved 32 coal mining projects in the current fiscal till January 2021,” the PSU said. CIL board and boards of the respective subsidiary companies have given their nod for the move
The combined incremental peak capacity of these projects is projected at 193 million tonnes per annum (mtpa).
CIL’s three subsidiaries South Eastern Coalfields, Central Coalfields and Mahanadi Coalfields with 167 mtpa form the bulk at 86.5 per cent. This will be in addition to the already sanctioned capacity of 303.5 mtpa. India’s coal users imported a record 248.5 million tons of the fuel in FY20. The miner has lined up a total investment of about Rs 92,000 crore for its coal projects with an aim to achieve one billion production target which include likely investment in coal evacuation infrastructure, mining infrastructure, project development and social infrastructure. However, CIL is also coming up with an estimated likely investment of about Rs 1.26 lakh crore involving 506 projects which include likely investment in clean coal and diversification initiatives.
To put these numbers into perspective, the sanctioned projects totalling 167 and 303 Mtpa, making 470 Mt, compare to India’s current coal output of 756 Mtpa. As the article states, the plan is to reach 1 billion tonnes by 2024.
A crore is 10 million, so Rs 92000 crore equates to roughly £9bn.
Cumbria Mine
The interviewer, Emily Maitlis, plainly attempted to draw Kerry into influencing the Cumbrian mine decision, something that would be totally improper for a US politician:
Asked during the interview whether the UK should be planning a controversial new coal mine in Cumbria,
Maybe she should have explained to him that it is a metallurgical coal mine, for making coke and not burning in power stations. It is clear that Kerry knew nothing about it all, no doubt to the disgust of the BBC who have been treating it as if it were some global calamity, as he obviously did not know it was for coking. If he had, he would have had to admit that the US is still producing and exporting millions of tonnes of the stuff every year. Indeed, last year 800,000 tonnes of it came straight here!
https://www.eia.gov/coal/production/quarterly/
Kerry knows full well that there is no practical alternative to the use of coke in iron and steelmaking.
Maybe he should tell Roger Harrabin!
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“The marketplace has made a decision that …”
or “All over the world people have made a decision…”
What he really means is:
Politicians who don’t know what they’re talking about, have made a decision…
Kerry, and just about every other leftists, presumes to speak for everyone. It is hard for them to believe that anyone looks at things differently from the way they do. Any people who do look at things differently must be aberrant, and can be dismissed.
It’s a combination of arrogance and ignorance.
John Kerry became a joke of a man long ago. And will be in history, if remembered at all.
It really makes you wonder what the conversations are like behind the scenes.
Like maybe…”Here is what we are offering in cash and trade deals if you will stand with us on these dates and nod your head when the cameras turn to you. Think Jimmy Carter deals for Egypt and Israel guys–you cant pass up that kind of money. We can even help you win your next election with more dark money. Think about it. We have access to all the money Americans will make over the next 10 years and then some–they won’t mind.”
“The marketplace has made a decision that coal is not the future?”
More about the marketplace
https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/02/17/the-market-for-energy/
Was the Vietnamese soldier that missed John Kerry court-martialed?
The Swiftboat crews, of which Kerry was a member, didn’t have much good to say about Kerry and the time he spent in Vietnam.
At least he got a magic hat out of it.
“The marketplace has made a decision that coal is not the future.”
Apparently, Gigolo John cannot tell the difference between a free market and one coerced by feckless government regulation.
What Kerry does not seem to comprehend is that India, Russia & China subscribe to the old fashioned idea that the government’s job is to improve the lives of its people and the nation in general and that their continuance depends on that. Only in America and a few other countries do leaders believe the opposite.
Here is an interview with Vladimir Putin by a few progressive journalists:
Putin in rare western media interview Dec 2019
https://youtu.be/OrkoiAukiQc
What is so surprising about the interview is that the journalists simply can’t seem to comprehend what Putin is saying. It is like they have drunk so much of the globalization / Obama koolaid they can’t comprehend common sense. It is like they think globalized progressive government is inevitable, as Obama does:
Obama’s Hazy Sense of History
He also believes history follows some predetermined course, as if things always get better on their own. Obama often praises those he pronounces to be on the “right side of history.” He also chastises others for being on the “wrong side of history” — as if evil is vanished and the good thrives on autopilot.
Another of Obama’s historical refrains is his frequent sermon about behavior that doesn’t belong in the 21st century. At various times he has lectured that the barbarous aggression of Vladimir Putin or the Islamic State has no place in our century and will “ultimately fail” — as if we are all now sophisticates of an age that has at last transcended retrograde brutality and savagery.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2014/08/obamas-hazy-sense-history-victor-davis-hanson/
And this all leads to the bizarre utter clueless policies that we are now seeing: defunding police, open borders, massively expensive energy, sacrificing industries, jobs and the working class, etc…
And John Kerry, like Mr Magoo, bumbles blindly along.
Government’s role is to change the weather using your life and money.
heard him bleating on abc radio in Aus..went out n fed the chooks;-)
Kerry is like a alcoholic, one coal mine closure was too many and a thousand is now not enough.
Kerry only know how to do one thing, and that is spend somebody elses money.