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The old reports were somehow protecting us? Carbon emissions can only be reduced by engineering and manufacturing advances
by paulsutter 1y ago
The old reports were somehow protecting us?
Carbon emissions can only be reduced by engineering and manufacturing advances
- myko 1y agoThe impression I get from the extreme right (trump and his fans) is that they don't want to reduce carbon emissions at all and are working for the opposite. Denying the reality of climate change is one tool in their chest to get others to ignore it as well.
- jacquesm 1y agoIn a way, yes, they were: they forced us to contemplate the long term consequences of our short term actions. Denying that is the opposite of protecting us (and, eventually, our offspring, who will deal with the consequences in a way that we never will). Carbon emissions can first and foremost be reduced by reducing the combustion of fossil fuels. Everything else is just bookkeeping and icing on the cake.
- paulsutter 1y ago> Carbon emissions can first and foremost be reduced by reducing the combustion of fossil fuels. Exactly! It can’t be reduced or increased by edits to federal PDF files that nobody reads Commercial efforts are the only solution, and will happen because new energy is cheaper and better. Photovoltaic and battery improvements are our best path forward. Industrial policy can help but we’ve never really had that in the US
- Hizonner 1y agoIf nobody reads them and they have no effect, why are they being rewritten?
- paulsutter 1y agoBecause politics is hopelessly dysfunctional
- tremon 1y agoCarbon emissions can also be reduced by our extinction.
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- account42 1y agoNo you see, carbon emissions can also be reduced by moving production to china and not looking too hard how they do it. Yay for climate champion Europe!
- ZeroGravitas 1y agoWorld in Data has carbon stats including imports and exports. It makes a difference but basically doesn't change the big picture. https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2 https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
- nwallin 1y agoIn 2020, China had 253GW of total solar capacity. In 2024, China installed 277GW of additional solar capacity. In June, they were up to 1,100GW of total solar capacity. In 2023, 60% of the global solar installation happened in China. China is so far ahead of the world in green energy it's ridiculous. We can't pretend that it's still 1995 and China still gets most of its energy from coal anymore.
- hollerith 1y agoTop four coal consumers as of 2023 (last year for which this data set is available): China 91.9 exajoules India 22 exajoules United States 8.2 exajoules Japan 4.54 exajoules https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/coal-consumption-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/coal-cons...
- UncleMeat 1y agoChina uses a shitload of coal. The US uses far less because we moved to other fossil fuel sources. It turns out that coal is not the only ghg emitter. China is installing way more zero-emission power generation. Looking only at coal and ignoring gas is very odd.
- jamie_ca 1y agohttps://www.iea.org/countries/china/energy-mix https://www.iea.org/countries/china/energy-mix Their green energy line _is_ on the increase, but it's effectively flat compared to the growth lines on coal and oil.