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August 28, 2016

Emergency Theater for Paris Agreement: China, US rush to sham ratification

In the run-up to Paris, China has built so many coal fired stations that as its economy falters it is even closing them but only because it has too many.
It has so much coal power there is even discussion that it could sell the excess power to Germany because it can produce electricity so cheaply that even the transmission losses over such a distance don't matter — electricity in Berlin is wildly expensive (thanks to their green obsession). The Chinese have been running full tilt to develop their manufacturing and electricity base - - CO2 be damned. Last time there was a "historic" moment with Obama, China agreed to do nothing different til 2030. It was an unenforceable long term commitment with no consequences. Like all these international agreements, the net effect will be to produce more global CO2 as factories move to China where they produce four times as much CO2 as Western factories. But no one cares about actual CO2, just like they don’t care about real air pollution and the 5.5 million deaths from it. Xi Jinping wants the West to sign the Paris agreement — it will hobble the competition, plus China already profits from carbon penance even as it hopes to profit by selling coal fired electricity back to hobbled nations. - - JoNova

Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 28, 2016 10:40 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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California will be needing that excess electrical power from the Chinese if Governor Jerk Off Brown gets his way his greening fantasy

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