FILE PHOTO: A worker walks past coal piles at a coal coking plant in Yuncheng, Shanxi province, China January 31, 2018. Picture taken January 31, 2018. REUTERS/William Hong/File Photo By Chris Mooney and Chris Mooney Reporter covering climate change, energy and the environment.
In particular, a fleet of relatively young coal plants located in Asia, with decades to go on their lifetimes, led the way towards a new record for emissions from coal fired power plants -- exceeding 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide “for the first time," the agency said. In Asia, “average plants are only 12 years old, decades younger than their average economic lifetime of around 40 years,” the agency found.
“Very worrisome" is how Michael Mehling, deputy director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, described Monday’s findings. “This will require overcoming the persistent barriers that have prevented greater progress in the past,” Mehling said.China, for instance, satisfied a demand for more energy last year with some new generation from renewables. But it relied far more on natural gas, coal, and oil. In India, around half of all new demand was similarly met by coal-fired power plants.
Yet the fact that it’s still growing strongly contradicts what scientists have said about what’s needed to curb climate warming. In a major report last year the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that global emissions would have to be cut nearly in half, by 2030, in order to preserve a chance of holding the planet’s warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius .
Rob Jackson, a professor of Earth system science at Stanford University, said the substantial growth of wind and solar energy detailed in Monday’s report was overshadowed by the world’s ongoing reliance on fossil fuels.
Probably the fakest news of the day. Not even entertaining. Yawn.
And record jobs!
EricIdle That's what happens when you convert everything to electric but don't install environmentally friendly power sources at the same or faster rate.
Reminds me of how I felt after reading an article on how violence against women & children has risen by something like hundreds of percent in South Africa. Huh! 🤨How? Something is turning people into monsters? How is this stat “growing” so much then? New folks doing it? Or what?
EricIdle Well you've got to charge your EV with something!
Britain had to fire up old coal plants so they didn't freeze to death.
And still no warming...
How else will we charge all those batteries?
We need to move to molten salt nuclear reactors, no meltdowns, no Fukushima explosions, consumes the vast high level waste sitting around and extracts every bit of energy and turns it into low level waste. Can also run on the thorium cycle, more than century of fuel.
So, where does electricity come from? (and don't say the wall socket, you know better)
More climate fraud from the fake newsmakers at the Washington post.
And trump is giving $3 billion to rescue a coal company..$3 BILLION!
Immigration from 3rd world non induistrial countries, to first world industrial countries has increased the same amount. Coincidence?
Wow, fellas.
Oh no smells like global warming
And it will get worse.
You know, here is when you can go interview Trump country