Essay by Eric Worrall
China undercut the world’s industries with gross human rights abuses, but Mann thinks China is the world’s climate leader.
Time to turn up the heat on action
By Michael E. Mann | China Daily Global | Updated: 2026-06-08 19:29
Climate crisis leaves no room for complacency
The past three years have been the hottest on record. Research shows that such extreme heat is virtually impossible without warming caused by humans. With modest assistance from El Nino, the continued burning of fossil fuels made this possible.
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Part of the problem is that the US, once a leader in climate action, is now backsliding under its current leadership. The bilateral climate agreement between China and the US during the Barack Obama administration set the stage for the landmark Paris Agreement in 2016.
Since then, only China has made good on its end of the bargain. In 2014, it promised to peak carbon emissions before 2030. Driven by an expansion in renewable energy deployment, including wind, solar, battery technologies, electric vehicles and high-speed rail, China’s carbon emissions have entered a “flat or falling” trend well before the 2030 deadline.The US once prided itself on being the hub of technological innovation. That honor has now shifted to China. …
…The US is no longer the conductor of the bullet train that is the global clean energy revolution. It should decide whether to climb on board or get left behind at the station. The rest of the world, and China in particular, should remain resolute in moving toward a global clean energy economy. The stakes could not be higher.
Read more: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202606/08/WS6a26a7a6a310d6866eb4d12f.html
Back in the real world, China’s renewable industry has been cited multiple times for gross human rights abuses by credible sources. Even President Biden’s administration acted to censure China’s horrific genocide against Xinjiang Uyghurs, and the extensive use of slave labor in Xinjiang’s coal powered renewable manufacturing industry.
The horror doesn’t stop with the enslaving of the men. While men are enslaved in the coal mines, factories and fields of Xinjiang, China allegedly moves Han men from other parts of China into the homes of those missing men. The men who visited slavery and horror on Xinjiang men, who hold those men’s fate in their hands – husbands, sons, uncles, nephews – allegedly then force themselves upon the families of the men they enslaved, living in the homes of their victims, alongside the women whose menfolk are being mistreated.
Read the article above – even the Biden administration cited forced labor and sexual abuse as reasons for sanctioning some Chinese companies.
The companies Biden sanctioned were likely the tip of the iceberg. I’m not alone in this view.
Yet to greens like Mann, China is an innovation leader, an inspiration others should aspire to follow.
Tyranny never lasts forever. One day there will be an accounting, the survivors of this horrific abuse will get to tell their story. There will be a great shaming of those who tried to give China a free pass for the humans rights abuses which are being perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party’s renewable energy industries. I sure hope Michael Mann is still around to see that day.
Wow their emissions have flatlined as they said it would and it only took a recent adjustment, those amazing chinese leadership always get it right on the money
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/chinas-new-carbon-metrics-erased-half-emissions-growth-reported-2020-2025-report-2026-05-27/
Clearly all you need is a pen to reduce emissions and a few paid climate activist to wave flags and say good things.
Absolutely untrue.
Insofar as CO2 emissions are of concern according to Our World in Data China’s CO2 emissions are not flat or falling, far from it, while US CO2 emissions peaked in 2005 mainly due to technological innovation.
Michael E Mann has no principles.
We all have realised over the years that Michael E Mann is an untrustworthy individual, there have even been books written about his unscientific claims not to mention court judgements. Has he paid up yet?
What we didn’t expect was straight out lies about the world’s largest interferer with atmospheric gasses.
How anyone can describe the ongoing rise in coal production and deployment as flatlining and falling is incredible.
Then again it is Michael Mann so, hey ho, leopards and spots as they say..
From the article: “Climate crisis leaves no room for complacency”
What climate crisis?
From the article: “past three years have been the hottest on record. Research shows that such extreme heat is virtually impossible without warming caused by humans. With modest assistance from El Nino, the continued burning of fossil fuels made this possible.”
All of that is a lie.
Mann does credit El Niño with adding some heat.
It was just as hot in the 1880’s and 1930’s as it was recently. Currently temperatures have cooled by 0.4C. What about that Mr. Mann? Are temperatures currently the “hottest on record? Answer: No, they are not.
Michael Mann: Still distorting the truth.
Mann is, as always, LYING through his posterior.
China has very little in the way of wind and solar energy production.
And when you look at the commissioning of new coal, we see 2025 has been a massive surge.
From the article: “Since then, only China has made good on its end of the bargain. In 2014, it promised to peak carbon emissions before 2030.”
That was real generous of them: They promise that they would peak their emissions before 2030, but up to that time, the Chinese (and Obama) gave themselves permission to build as many coal-fired power plants as they desire.
That’s a good deal for the Chinese. And, of course, they are not really obligated to change their behavior after 2030.
Comrades !!
Tractor production is up again !!
Read all about it in Pravda (Russian for truth, Commiespeak for propaganda)
All hail comrade Mann!!
Worrall is again lying about what Dr Mann said. Worrall supports slave labor for fossil energy production but then feigns caring about the same when it comes to safe, reliable, zero pollution green energy.
The question is, why is Worrall such a dishonest liar? Is it out of ignorance or stupidity?
From the article: “US is no longer the conductor of the bullet train that is the global clean energy revolution. It should decide whether to climb on board or get left behind at the station. The rest of the world, and China in particular, should remain resolute in moving toward a global clean energy economy. The stakes could not be higher.”
Only in your fevered imagination.
Michael Mann lied the world about the Earth’s temperatures, and he is still doing it.
I suspect Mikey Mann is simply envious of the Chinese mastery of human exploitation and narrative control. He would no doubt fit right in.
Comment on the first sentence of Mr. Worrall’s above article:
Michael Mann thinks?
That is not at all evident from his article published in China Daily Global, as excerpted by Eric above.
Mann would have made a great slaveholder in the Old South, or a KKKluxer now. I wonder if he’s on board with forced organ donations or “plasticizing” the Chinese slaves now. A so-called human being, a so-called educated man in bed with totalitarian idiology, IE slavery and butchery. I guess power is power and he must really want it. Ah, the humanity…
I knew a gentleman from China who was imprisoned to work in a Chinese coal mine for 10 years during the Cultural Revolution. His crime at the time was having had some university education. Now we have American university educated fools promoting the new Chinese ethnic-based gulag system in support of agenda climate change. What a world.
High speed rail is green? I never heard that before. That explains a few things.
Makes no sense to me.
But Heir Biden showed the way for Europeans by delaying action on the Chinese solar imports by giving a multi-year exemption for bifacial panels, which happened to be the dominate import type. The EU is doing the same now with a declaration of action against forced labor solar components but with a multi-year waiver on action against the imports. Row well and live Uighurs.
And send lots of pictures of your prisons and the massive string of coal fired power plants supporting your operations. You won’t mind if they add posters of the hero Michael Mann on your prison walls, because oh yeah, you have no say in the matter.
Michael Mann has a serious character flaw which allows him to enrich himself by distorting reality. Let us not forget that he burst onto the international scene by missusing Principle Component Analysis to claim that 4 bristlecone pine tree ring cores represented the climate of the entire planet over hundreds of years.
Mann is a facilitator of tyrants and enslavers. He ought to be put in front of a judge and incarcerated.
China is able to get away with the behavior that most Greens wish they could.
Aside from questions I’m not going to dig for answers to, such as increased efficiency in building heating and in factories, I comment that Mann is probably desperate for some climate cred as the world turns against his ilk.
It is people like Mann that have eroded my respect and admiration for highly educated people. There are plenty of highly educated people who deserve our respect and admiration. Mann is proof not all of them deserve it.
“…peak carbon emissions before 2030.”
It’s not 2030 yet, so Mann is gramaticly correct, ‘they are keeping their bargain.’ And the rest of the world can go ….. (pick your own word(s) – mine would get me banned for life.)
Mann would make a great camp commandant in western China.