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- China Climate change: Planting new forests 'can do more harm than good' https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53138178 https://www.bbc.com/news/scien

by litbear2022 1y ago

- *China* Climate change: Planting new forests 'can do more harm than good' https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53138178 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53138178 - *non-China* Las Vegas is embracing a simple climate solution: More trees https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44231151 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44231151 - *2022* China Is Burning More Coal, a Growing Climate Challenge https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/business/energy-environment/china-coal-natural-gas.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/business/energy-environme... - *2024* Yellen Warns China Against Flood of Cheap Green Energy Exports https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/business/yellen-china-green-technology.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/business/yellen-china-gre... Ridiculous double standards.

fspeech 1y ago
In this case it's purely technical even if the title can be misunderstood as if the cleanup is a bad thing. Instead the takeaway should be that it would be reassuring if the majority of the acceleration can be explained by a cleanup effort, because it implies that this is a limited process and the acceleration should go away after the cleanup is over.