“China’s record aluminium output last year emitted more C02 than some entire countries, including Indonesia and Brazil,” says Reuters. Maybe the West should shut more of their economies down in order to shame China into compliance. Or it could develop cheap nuclear power and outcompete their “inefficient coal plants”.
(Reuters) – China’s aluminium sector must shut dedicated power capacity equivalent to more than Germany’s entire coal fleet over the next decade to keep Beijing on track to meet its carbon pledges, climate think tank Ember says.
China accounts for more than half of global aluminium production, churning out 37 million tonnes in 2020. President Xi Jinping has vowed China will achieve peak emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060.
Japan needs nuclear power, says energy minister
Japan’s energy minister has said he considers nuclear energy “indispensable” if the country is to meet its target of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Speaking to the Financial Times, Hiroshi Kajiyama said power shortages last month due to heavy snowfall highlighted Japan’s need for nuclear.
Before there was Greta Thunberg there was Helen Caldicott. Don’t you hate it when last week’s extinction threats gets in the way of today’s climate emergency?
The problem with politicizing science is that science can change practically overnight with a single experiment but politics takes a generation to cycle through. If the youthful Nancy Pelosi is convinced of something it may persist as received wisdom for 50 years.