China's Coal Habit Is Outpacing Its Clean Energy Boom
ADNOC, Eni Acquire Stakes In Gas Blocks Linked To Argentina’s LNG Project Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer in the energy industry.
He has 25 years of international engineering experience in the chemical, oil and gas, and… A recent social media postfrom a meteorologist with a large following made a claim that deserves a closer look.
The post argued that it is a myth that China is responsible for rapidly rising carbon dioxide emissions, and it has been shared hundreds of times.
The following graphic attached to the post, fromOur World in Data, showed annual carbon dioxide emissions by world region.
It also showed something that undercut the claim: China’s emissions have surged this century and now represent the largest single-country contribution to annual global emissions.
The issue is not that the post was entirely wrong.
China’s per capita emissions remain below those of the United States.
and Europe have contributed more cumulative carbon dioxide to the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.
China has installed more wind and solar capacity than any other country.
But they do not support the claim that China is not a major driver of rapidly rising global emissions.
Debates often go wrong because people latch onto one valid fact and use it to dismiss other valid facts.
So, let’s start with the facts that are favorable to China’s argument.
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