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Essay by Eric Worrall
Chinese Communist mouthpiece Global Times has accused the West, and the USA in particular, of poisoning and politicising global climate cooperation.
Western countries backpedal blustery promises on climate change; US poisons global cooperation by politicizing the issue
By GT staff reporters Published: Aug 26, 2022 12:41 AM
The record heat waves, alongside an energy crisis partly caused by the US-instigated Russia-Ukraine crisis, have forced some European countries to row back on their climate goals. Meanwhile, in the US, one of the world’s biggest emitters, climate change has descended to an issue for partisan struggle, and most recently, a topic to demonize China after Beijing suspended communication on this matter with the US after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s provocative visit to the island of Taiwan.
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In the latest case, the city of Copenhagen has given up on a long-term goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2025. “As things look now, we cannot achieve our ambitious climate target,” the head of the city municipality’s elected technical and environmental committee, Line Barfoed, said to Danish media on Monday.
The Denmark city’s decision was made after several European countries, including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands already or are planning to return to coal to generate electricity, after they felt the pinch from energy crisis followed by the Russia-Ukraine crisis, and adding insult to injury, Europe’s worst drought in 500 years.
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Meanwhile, China is heading toward its goal on carbon neutrality steadily.
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Read more: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202208/1273929.shtml
A lot of what the CCP has said on this occasion is true, except in my opinion the part about China ever taking climate action seriously.
If climate action was a priority for Chinese leaders, in my opinion they wouldn’t be building loads of coal plants, and they wouldn’t have used the Taiwan dispute as an excuse to suspend talks. The CCP would have accepted John Kerry’s plea to keep climate talks disconnected from other political issues.
One silver lining to this mess, as global climate cooperation dissolves into a desperate Western scramble for coal and gas, and edgy geopolitical point scoring between China and the USA, the day when nobody even pretends anymore to take climate action seriously draws ever closer.
China already clearly showed its intention by boycotting COP26.
So it was a simple step to cut off climate talk shops.
Meanwhile the US sells the EU Freedom Molecules, and Taipei sells Democracy Chips.
The West has become merely a slogan shop, bankrupt, like Greta’s and F4F.
Now to get on with real physical economics, the BRI, EAEU, the USA must build that Berring Tunnel with Russia jointly.
A tunnel?? Then Tina Fey will say that Sarah Palin should be President because she can drive to Russia from her house.
Driving to Russia is one thing, driving back again is far more difficult!
Always good to take a dose of reality, weather voluntary or forced. Now Western voters need to understand what they voted for and what it means to their own standard of living. That Kool Aid isn’t so sweet after all.
“Whether”
In CAGW speak and per griff, weather = climate.
Well, I hope your last statement is right – doubt I’ll live that long, however.
China is the world leader in wind power generation, with the largest installed capacity of any nation and continued rapid growth in new wind facilities.
At the end of 2020, China’s total installed photovoltaic capacity was 253 GW, accounting for one-third of the world’s total installed photovoltaic capacity (760.4 GW). China leads the world as the top producer of solar energy, installing more than 48 GW of photovoltaic (PV) capacity in 2020.
In 2021, 5.9% of China’s electricity was from wind & solar. Whereas 83.4% was from coal, natural gas & oil.
btw 18.4% of world population reside in China.
The reply to which is, so what?
There are a number of things which are irrelevant, according to the theory. The theory says that the only thing driving CAGW is total tons of CO2 emitted. China is emitting 11 billion of them (twice as much as the next emitter, the US, at about 5 billion) and just under one third of the global total.
Here is a list of things that are irrelevant:
The theory is that the only thing that counts is tons emitted. But for some unaccountable reason, activists who buy into the theory, or claim to, are never worried by the fact that the world’s largest emitter is China, and that they have no intention of reducing their emissions, and you will never come across the slightest hint in activist circles that maybe China should actually… you know… reduce.
I wanted to point out FACTS about China to avoid the impression that all they do is to build new coal plants. Some of the new coal plants are intended to replace older coal plants that pollute more.
CHINA HAS SERIOUS URBAN AIR POLLUTION PROBLEMS, WHICH ARE AN INCENTIVE TO REDUCE AIR POLLUTION ANY WAY THEY CAN.
They are also having power shortage problems in very hot weather recently, so obviously need more fossil fuel and nuclear baseload power plants
Richard, the Communist Party thanks you for sucking up.
And your Mother thanks you for being so smart
Can you stop with obvious, but you’re absolutely correct.
The obvious.
Or, as the Soviets used to brag during the cold war, ‘Russia makes the world’s largest micro-switches!’
Twice nothing is still nothing.
Beyond that, what matters is not total capacity, but per capita capacity.
“what matters is not total capacity, but per capita capacity.”. That’s fantastic news. We don’t need China or the USA to do anything – King Island can save the world.
Ah, capacity. Could have been a genius. Instead, crack and meth did him in.
WTF with all the down votes? It’s true.
So what?
Yes but almost completely irrelevant to the discussion. Richard could’ve gone on to mention that, despite all the installed solar, China only generates about 1/10th of the installed capacity but he ducked out on saying anything meaningful.
Richard, and your point would be what?
China is building solar farms, wind farms and nuclear power plants too, not only new coal power plants
They are also speculatively building high rise apartments with nobody living in them, threatening to crash their economy.
70% of the population can’t afford even a basic level of accomodation is why. Whilst China’s leadership are building massive housing projects that most people can’t afford, sending probes to other planets and putting manned space stations into orbit they have done nothing to lift the majority of their own people out of poverty.
Your point being is what?
NOAA CHARTS REVEAL GLOBAL COOLING IS INTENSIFYING; A WORD ON ‘CLIMATE REANALYZER’; + LONG COLD WINTER MORNINGS PERSIST IN AUSTRALIA – ELECTROVERSE
August 26, 2022 Cap Allon
[Excerpt]
Daniel Toleman, Principal Analyst, Global LNG for Wood Mackenzie said: “This recent crisis was caused by a perfect storm of under-investment in new energy supplies, as well as cold weather hitting at the same time as coal outages and supply shortages, low renewable generation and high global commodity prices. It was an incredible combination that pushed the market to the breaking point. LNG suppliers stepped in to divert gas to areas that needed it, but the situation did highlight the need for new sources of energy supply to meet current and future demand.”
An extraordinary similarity exists to my following letter, published 9 years ago in 2013:
AN OPEN LETTER TO BARONESS VERMA
British Undersecretary for Energy and Climate Change, 31Oct2013
By Allan MacRae, B.A.Sc.(Eng.), M.Eng.
[excerpt]
So here is my real concern:
IF the Sun does indeed drive temperature, as I suspect, Baroness Verma, then you and your colleagues on both sides of the House may have brewed the perfect storm.
You are claiming that global cooling will NOT happen, AND you have crippled your energy systems with excessive reliance on ineffective grid-connected “green energy” schemes.
I suggest that global cooling probably WILL happen within the next decade or sooner, and Britain will get colder.
I also suggest that the IPCC and the Met Office have NO track record of successful prediction (or “projection”) of global temperature and thus have no scientific credibility.
I suggest that Winter deaths will increase in the UK as cooling progresses.
I suggest that Excess Winter Mortality, the British rate of which is about double the rate in the Scandinavian countries, should provide an estimate of this unfolding tragedy.
When making accurate predictions, the key is to follow known science and technology, and not become infatuated by woke popular nonsense based on hopes, dreams and pixie dust.
Fearless world leaders and village idiots, please take note.
Yes it is cooling.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/21/ee-news-defames-pat-michaels/#comment-3561834
[excerpts]
Rational analysis concludes that climate is INsensitive to recent observed increases in atmospheric CO2. The false assumption of high climate sensitivities to CO2 is essential to the IPCC’s bogus modelling of catastrophic human-made global warming (CAGW), a decades-old fraud that is clearly NOT happening, and the false and disastrous demonization of fossil fuels.
This paper by Ed Berry is the leading edge of the science. Unlike the IPCC’s models, it is consistent with the observation that CO2 changes lag temperature changes (Kuo 1990, MacRae 2008, Humlum 2013). Ed concludes that the majority of the observed increase in atmospheric CO2 is in fact natural, not human-made – another argument against the IPCC’s blatant climate fraud.
The smartest people I know believe that Ed Berry is essentially correct. I am confident that “The future cannot cause the past” (MacRae, 2008).
https://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/esrl-co2/from:1979/mean:12/derivative/plot/uah6/from:1979/scale:0.18/offset:0.17
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The impact of human CO2 on atmospheric CO2 – SCC (klimarealistene.com)
Dr Edwin X Berry, December 14, 2021
Ed Berry is a climate science fraud
He is on the leading edge of junk science.
Ed concludes that the majority of the observed increase in atmospheric CO2 is in fact natural, not human-made. In fact. the CO2 increase is 100% manmade from CO2 emissions
Ed Berry is, and will remain, a fool.
Anyone who is a member of his cult is also a fool.
Mr MacRae appear to follow Ed Berry.
Therefore Mr. MacRae is a fool.
This is Ed Berry alt-science tin hat conspiracy theory claptrap, denying 100% of the climate science consensus on AGW. Not 90%. Not 95%. But 100%.
Every other scientist in the world is wrong about why CO2 increased from 280ppm to 420ppm, except Ed Berry? The estimated +200ppm of manmade CO2 emissions had nothing to do with that +140ppm rise of atmospheric CO2? Only a deluded fool would believe that malarkey.
ECS is unknown, but obviously not dangerous
CAGW is a prediction, wrong for 50+ year, not reality. AGW is a reasonable theory with some measurements of downwelling infrared radiation showing an increased greenhouse effect, which rising CO2 is part of. The C13 / C12 ratio shows manmade CO2 is increasing in the troposphere, obviously.
The very difficult battle over CAGW scaremongering can not be won by denying 100% of conventional climate science.
There is a greenhouse effect
Humans have added a lot of CO2 to the troposphere More CO2 should increase the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect has increased, but the increase was small and harmless for the past 47 years. No CAGW.
In fact, the actual warming since 1975 has been beneficial: Mainly in the upper, colder half off the Northern Hemisphere Mainly during the six coldest months of the year, and Mainly at night (TMIN) Think of warmer winter nights in Siberia. Add the greening of the Earth since the 1970s and all the results from the past 47 years of global warming has been good news, not a climate emergency. The obvious conclusion: more CO2 in the atmophere would be good news.
100%, wow! Hard to believe isn’t it?
50% of the time you’re lucid, spot on. 50% of the time you’re nuts.
Plum nucking futs that is..
You’re not smart enough to know which !
Paul Graham came up with a “Hierarchy of Disagreement”, AKA his “Debate Pyramid”, which lays out one possible way of analysing “robust, or even heated, (scientific) debate”.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_Disagreement.svg
For some obscure reason you appear to be unaware that it is possible to skip “Level 7 : Name Calling (and/or Abuse)” entirely.
Here on WUWT people who don’t skip, or remain stuck at, that level tend to get (heavily) downvoted.
It’s the people who stick to level 3 (and higher) who attract upvotes.
Hint : The key phrase is “… and then backs it up with reasoning and/or supporting evidence“.
Re the dry and arid east of the UK, Sprags et al (2015) evaluated droughts in the east of the UK from 1798 – 2010 and found the most severe droughts were 1854 – 60 and 1893 – 1907 with “contiguous dry winters and summers”.
To be fair, western nations profited from China’s labor and environmental arbitrage, and State’s Choice to keep women affordable, available, and taxable, and men free from intrusive “burdens”.
Keeping women affordable and available is eminently desirable. But taxable?
Labour only contractor at standard tax rates.
I would also question China’s assertion that the USA mind-tricked Russia into invading Ukraine.
Russia has invaded Crimea, Georgia and Chechnya since the fall of the CCCP. It seems unlikely that these actions were all at the behest of the USA. Or that this case was any different to the others.
Chechnya was very analogous to our forays into Afghanistan and Iraq, except it didn’t take the Russians 20+ years and cost them trillions of dollars to ‘pacify’ the place. As for Crimea, Georgia and Ukraine, they’re all the result of US intervention / NATO expansion directed by the same deep state that gave us Afghanistan and Iraq.
And was Rocky the reason Ivan Drago beat up Apollo Creed?
Yes, didn’t you see the film? Rocky was exactly the reason why Apollo Creed took on Ivan Drago with the inevitable result. Apollo Creed knew his facing Drago was the only way to force Rocky back into the ring.
Chechnya invaded its neighbors? Chechnya harbored criminals that launched terrorist attacks on Russia?
As to quickly pacifying the country, when you are willing to blow up everything is sight and kill anything that moves, it doesn’t take long to pacify a country.
As to the US forcing Russia to invade it’s neighbors, Putin has been declaring since the fall of the Soviet Union his intentions to rebuild the Russian empire. Secondly, NATO was just an excuse the idiot left uses to try and justify their hero’s murderous urges.
“Putin has been declaring since the fall of the Soviet Union his intentions to rebuild the Russian empire.”
Most of what politicians say is empty promises
US weapons in Ukraine sent by Trump did not help.
US and UK not helping Ukraine defend Crimea in 2014 did not help.
US and all other nations ignoring the Donbas Civil War since 2014 did not help. 11,000Russian speaking Ukrainian civilians were killed by the Ukraine military. A genocide was in progress and was ramping up in 2022. About one third of Ukrainians in the Donbas region wanted to be an independent nation. Not part of Russia. They would have lost a vote. But Kiev never allowed a vote, for them to lose, preferring a civil war instead. The current war is the result of two corrupt leaders, Putin and Zelensky, both more interested in themselves than in their people.
Amazing so many climate realists are also NATO WEF fanbois. Fanboi on fanboi’s.
“Meanwhile, China is heading toward its goal on carbon neutrality steadily.”
Is it, by Jove.
There’s net zero chance of getting anywhere near net zero.
China’s goal on carbon neutrality, as stated in the various agreements, is to increase its CO2 emissions as much as it possibly can until 2030, when it will try to stabilise at that new level. It is successfully heading to the first stated goal. Whether it tries to achieve its second stated goal remains to be seen. Let’s face it, if it achieves its less explicitly stated goal of world domination then it won’t need to worry about any stated goals at all.
China’s goal is to produce enough electricity to meet demand and to reduce air pollution over all major cities. Both are tough goals. Windmills and solar panels will not be the answer. Although manufacturing wind turbines and solar panels, and selling them to other nations, provide funds to build more coal power plants and nuclear reactors.
Excellent point Mike!
This, in a “something I prepared earlier” graphic I’ve posted elsewhere.
It is a priority of the government of Beijing that western democracies take Climate Change seriously enough to destroy their countries & economies.😃
Yes, I think that is the real motive of the Chicoms. They don’t want any slowing of the self-inflicted destruction of the West.
“the day when nobody even pretends anymore to take climate action seriously draws ever closer.” That come soon enough. This fake science has to go.
Stole this from Cal Allon, but Hmmm….
NOAA Charts Reveal Global Cooling Is Intensifying
NOAA shows that the rate of Earth’s cooling has increased during 2022
The agency’s ‘Global Time Series’ temperature tool plots the current ‘Land and Ocean’ rate of decrease as 0.19C per decade, up from a decrease of 0.11C per decade at the start of the year:
Selected month: Jan (Feb 2016-Jan 2022) decrease of 0.11C per decade
Selected month: Feb (Mar 2016-Feb 2022) decrease of 0.13C per decade
Selected month: Mar (Apr 2016-Mar 2022) decrease of 0.16C per decade
Selected month: Apr (May 2016-Apr 2022) decrease of 0.18C per decade
Selected month: May (Jun 2016-May 2022) decrease of 0.18C per decade
Selected month: Jun (Jul 2016-Jun 2022) decrease of 0.18C per decade
Selected month: Jul (Aug 2016-Jul 2022) decrease of 0.19C per decade
So, in six months the rate of decrease in temperature has increased by 73% over the January figure.Not only is the Earth cooling, it is cooling at a faster and faster rate.
Data mining nonsense
Whereas if you take the standard series of “72-month trailing trends” instead of your ” 6 sets of ‘Month X+1 of Year Y-6’ to ‘Month X of Year Y’ numbers” cherry-picking you get a completely different result !
Done “properly” you (or, rather, “I” …) get an increase in the trend from -0.14 (°C/decade) for [ February 2016 to ] January 2022 to -0.02 for July 2022.
I believe Mark Twain’s astute observation about “lies, damned lies and statistics” is applicable here … to BOTH of us !
They’re retreating because the commitments were based on a fake green fairy tale.
They made all sorts of verbal and written promises to generate the imposition of the early stages of the green energy schemes on human societies.
However, the Junk science and ignoring of physical energy principles that they used to base their commitments on have to be reconciled with the real world eventually.
Since those green energy schemes are so fatally flawed, it hasn’t taken much time to expose them in the real world.
This was destined to happen from the get go.
Even many of those reaping massive financial benefits from these flawed, fake green energy schemes know it.
Are all these people getting rich off of wind power, ignorant in science and energy. Are they unaware of the massively negative environmental impacts about their own business?
They don’t know that millions of birds/bats will be killed, including some on the endangered species list? Landscape’s and habitats destroyed?
Massive mining raping the earth, then going into landfills in 20-25 years? All the massive real pollution?
They absolutely understand the consequences better than anybody because they are the ones doing it.
They aren’t doing it for charity. They aren’t environmentalists. They aren’t trying to save the planet.
Governments have specifically designed policies to enrich people in these industries with subsidies and financial benefits that has resulted in deals much too lucrative for them NOT to take.
In an honest/fair world based on solid science/energy and free market principles without government intervention, wind energy would get no traction from big investors.
Crony capitalism.
Green Energy Scores a 76X ROI for Their Lobbying Efforts
https://www.transparencyusa.org/article/green-energy-lobby-roi
Not a single study on the effects of saturating large expanses of endangered right whale habitat with powerful low frequency sound from offshore wind turbines . Whales are very dependent on acoustics .
“A lot of what the CCP has said on this occasion is true, except in my opinion the part about China ever taking climate action seriously.”
Excuse me! How on earth can you claim a lot of what the CCP has said is true?
“The record heat waves, alongside an energy crisis partly caused by the US-instigated Russia-Ukraine crisis, have forced some European countries to row back on their climate goals. Meanwhile, in the US, one of the world’s biggest emitters, climate change has descended to an issue for partisan struggle, and most recently, a topic to demonize China after Beijing suspended communication on this matter with the US after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s provocative visit to the island of Taiwan.”
You don’t have to read any further than this to realize it is trash.