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.
Left-wing governments are good at that sort of thing,
just look at the mail-in vote totals in California.
A batch of 23,000 ballots were received by various post offices in the LA region Tuesday night after the polls closed.
Of those ballots, 13,000 went to the Democrat front runner and 10,000 went to the 3rd place Democrat. Barely enough to move the 3rd place candidate into 2nd place.
A grand total of 0 (zero) votes were case for the 2nd place Republican candidate.
(CA has what they call a jungle primary. All candidates run in the same primary, and if nobody breaks 50%, the top two have a runoff.)
Who knew it was so easy, and to think of all the trillions wasted? Oh, my.
A falling population also helps! However, Mann is wrong (I know, that’s a redundant statement). CO2 output continues to rise in China.
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.
China has opened 2 new coal power plants per week
and last year they commissioned an additional 78GW in capacity – more than India in the last 10 years combined.
I wonder how they can reach a flat, let alone falling trend that way;
but it would be a miracle if the Mannchurian would even get the most basic things right.
And IF Mann is actually right,(Chinas New Coal Power Installation reaches 18 year high -Forbes,feb 2026)
than I’d suggest for all other countries to add 78GW of capacity to reach this falling trend.
The IEA say
Coal investment has been rising steadily in the past 6 years
“dominated by China and India. About 65% of investment in coal in 2026 will take place in China”
“Investment in steam coal is set to surpass USD 100bn in 2026 nearly double the level of a decade ago”
Australia’s “coking coal investment in 2026 was second only to China’s ” – “USD 4.5bn” and “several new plants were announced over the next decade”
“India is adding tens of millions of tonnes (Mt) pa of coal capacity to reduce imports and is expanding coal gasification capabilities to produce chemicals”
“Russia is adding 25Mt of coking coal pa” as well as “major rail and port expansions to deliver coal to China, Korea and Japan”
US and Canada “Have 15 coal mines underway with a combined 34Mt pa. In Canada at least 6 major projects advanced in 2025”
South Africa has “brought 2 projects online since 2024 and has 12 others underway”
IEA ‘World Energy Investment 2026’ (May 2026)
Strange – as I was told that RCP 8.5 was cancelled because of the successful transfer to renewables 🙂
But I’m surprised about Australia -I thought they have this crazy green Albanese government down there.
Going on past history I would expect a lot of those Australian projects are coal mining for export projects. Australia is currently the major coal mining for export country in the world with 46 of the 95 such projects in the world in 2024 according to the IEA.
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..
Michael Mann is correct in this case.
Chinese workers are more productive than European and American workers and work on a 996 schedule.
High productivity reduces climate impact
Low productivity increases climate impact.
European and American workers must increase productivity and working hours to reduce workers’ climate impact.
Michael Mann must introduce a 996 schedule to reduce workers’ environmental impact and to be able to compete with Chinese workers.
We know Mann loves hockey sticks.
This time he turned it upside down.
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.
You are misinformed and spreading lies. Try learning
Chuckle. Old Bones strikes again. Back up your hit and run with a demonstration of what you think you have learned and why Tom’s offering, which can be backed up by observational data, is a “lie”.
Mann’s lie (one of them, anyway) is to present rank speculation as fact.
It would appear that he does not have the capacity to experience cognitive dissonance.
You offer no observational data. Why don’t lie? Is it because you are stupid?
I observe that you are unable to make any reasoned argument and behave like a child. Stupid is as stupid does. I leave it up to others to decide who fits that description..
From the trump regime
Please show us where temperatures were measured for MOST of the globe in 1910.
Guess what…… THEY WEREN’T
And that graph does not remotely resemble any raw data from most places around the globe, most of which show measured temperatures being similar or a bit warmer than the first decade of this century..
eg
An unsourced graph. Good god deniers don’t even try anymore
What is that? The only thing it is evidence of is your political bias (and your level of intellectual maturity).
Forget your hood, did you? Or your blinders? Or are you just that poor combo of stupid and arrogant?
You have been asked to back up your claims multiple times. You never do.
I have backed them up. You haven’t backed up your claims
“Extreme heat” = slightly less cold than in some recent decades.
Remember, the only heat that is extreme is averaged heat. So if you stick your head in an oven while standing in a bucket of dry ice everything on average will be just fine.
That’s apparently what Flesch does.
Heat waves have increased. Don’t be afraid to learn about the world
Close to 90% of the last 10,000 years has been warmer than it is today and none of that heat required enhanced CO2 levels.
You are again lying. Much warmer now than 1880. Why are such a dishonest liar?
Most of the last 10,000 years were most definitely mostly warmer than now.
The early 1800s were actually the COLDEST period in those 10,000 years, and the world in very fortunate that there has been some minor warming, because that was a bleak cold period, when humankind suffered greatly from famine and disease due to the cold.
How can you be so utterly unaware of that fact. ???
You are misinformed, but good to see even a misinformed denier like yourself has to admit it is warmer now than the 1800’s
Thank God for that. The Little Ice Age really sucked. I don’t know what little box you live in, but out here in the world, a bit warmer is generally appreciated.
Mann is, as always, LYING through his posterior.
China has very little in the way of wind and solar energy production.
If you click on the chart, it will expand and become clear. Use the escape key to contact the chart and redisplay the comment box.
Believe it or not, most users are capable of navigating a website without the assistance of an 80+ y/o fossil.
Oh come now, Charles. Mr Pierce knows ALL about the inter-thingy.
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.
And won’t.
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?
Wind and solar power are certainly not safe or reliable or zero pollution.
Solar panels and windmills require an enormous amount of mining to produce.
When they come to the end of their lives, they cannot be recycled and must be dumped in landfills.
Solar and wind power are weather dependent which means that they are extremely unreliable.
The average wind turbine kills 500 birds per year and have been linked to damage to other creatures. Solar panels caused 171 fires in Britain in 2024.
Is this guy just doing this for attention? It is the only reason I can come up with to explain why anyone would make such obviously asinine comments that prove what an utter fool they are.
But then, clowns have always been a staple of the circus.
Paid by the post?
Worrall is
Worrall is doing it because he gets paid to do it. Are you that ignorant?
Look it’s a mikey sock-puppet
Nice.
Actually, no that is NOT “the question”.
The real question is why anyone—anyone at all—should pay attention to your remote, armchair psychoanalysis of Mr. Worrall?
“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
— widely attributed to the wisdom of Socrates
Now, you were saying something about “ignorance and stupidity” . . .
Worrall tries to slander with lies
Eric Worrel was totally correct on everything he posted.
You on the other hand… nope. !
Spoken like an experienced troll.
A very very low-end troll. !
FYI: …zero pollution green energy only makes electrical energy. In modern economies 80% of the energy generated and used is thermal energy. The heavy industries, the heavy transportation systems and agriculture will always use large amounts of fossil fuels. Large amounts of fossil fuels are for used for generating thermal energy for space and water heating in households.
How do you heat your house in winter?
Good god deniers can’t see anything
Are you saying you are a DENIER.. because you see nothing. !!
Is your first name Michael by any chance?
or Xi?
It’s Eric. You can’t read?
Can you name the place that is using slave labor for fossil fuel production?
Or are you just blindly making up what you desperately hope is true. Again.
Read the article
There is zero reference to fossil fuel being mined by slaves.
Can you answer Mark’s question and name the place this happens ??
“safe, reliable, zero pollution green energy.”
There is NO SUCH THING. !
Wind and solar are not safe
Wind and solar are NOT reliable
Wind and solar are made releasing copious amounts of pollution, and massive toxic waste at decommissioning, into leaching landfills etc
Wind and solar are NOT GREEN.. they are the most environmentally destructive form of electricity there is.
The closest forms of electricity to being safe, reliable, zero real pollution, and that benefit the planet’s green life…
… are COAL and GAS.
All caps. An angry denier
No counter to the facts… Thanks for letting us know what we already knew.
How can I be angry at a clown act. 😉
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 bet Mann is aghast that China’s death vans are gasoline or diesel powered.
I got a chuckle out of seeing “bullet train” and “US” used by Mann. 🙂
Of course the bridge that this bullet train is being driven towards is out. Indeed it was never finished.
I suspect Mikey Mann is simply envious of the Chinese mastery of human exploitation and narrative control. He would no doubt fit right in.
No. He would not fit in. He is a rank amateur.
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.
Requires a LOT of high quality stable electricity to drive it..
In China, that comes mostly from COAL.
The CO2 from burning coal, helps plant life stay green. 😉
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.
A lot of Greens want their opponents put in front of a firing squad.
Incinerated, perhaps?
Maybe the Salem Witch Trials can be modernized? /sarc
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.