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sebastianconcpt | 1 month ago

And how China compares its 2024 to 2025?

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hunglee2|1 month ago

US bad, China good basically.

Coal share of energy likely peaked for China in 2025, even as overall energy usage increased - almost all that increase has come from renewables, which China is of course doubling down upon. China is on trend to become an electrostate, USA on trend to regress on energy infrastructure which will power the next 100 hundred years

engineer_22|1 month ago

China 12 billion tons CO2 and steady, USA 6 billion tons CO2 and falling.

US bad, China very bad.

energy123|1 month ago

China and India coal usage dropped for the first time in 52 years[1].

It's also silly to look at anything other than per-capita metrics. If China arbitrarily splits in half or expands, the per-capita metric remains invariant to the historical luck factor behind why national borders are the way they are.

[1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coal-power-drops-in-chi...

joe_mamba|1 month ago

>China and India coal usage dropped for the first time in 52 years

Isn't it because they're now getting Russian oil and gas at rock bottom prices from western sanctions?

lm28469|1 month ago

If you take life long CO2 emissions they have a fat margin before getting to US levels. And they've manufacturing 75% of the gadgets you buy in the west

SPICLK2|1 month ago

There's no margin on averting the Climate Catastrophe!

FactolSarin|1 month ago

Why do I get the feeling that if the answer is that they're polluting more as well, parent will argue that makes it OK for the US, as if we should be following their lead. But if the answer is they're making progress on lowering emissions, he'll argue the opposite?

Sharlin|1 month ago

China will almost certainly never reach the cumulative emissions that the US already reached in the 70s.

tchalla|1 month ago

Why should it be compared 2024 2025 and not 100+ years?