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China is the new climate leader. Once-child policy having reduced billions of tons of carbon and also leading in wind and some sectors of solar, and having a massive nuclear power plan. China has also reforested huge areas of land. What is even more impressive is that China is still a poor country, yet they are actively taking big steps to save the climate. Yes, it is true that coal is still very important, and China's coal production in the future will probably emit more CO2 than the all of EU's total CO2 emissions, but it is still important to give China huge credit for all the steps it has taken.
"China is the new climate leader."
LOL!
2004 "China is the dominant player. The country is on track to add 562 coal-fired plants - nearly half the world total of plants expected to come online in the next eight years. India could add 213such plants; the US, 72."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1223/p01s04-sten.html
2007 "where demand for power is growing rapidly, such as India and China, coal is booming. Energy lore has it that in China a new coal-burning plant is fired up every week. What is certain is that China has become a net importer of coal for the first time this year. India's imports have been growing steadily for the past 20 years."
http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10145492
2007 "The total capacity of Chinese fossil-fired power plants in operation or under construction as displayed in the new McIlvaine Chinese Utility Plans database is 699 700 MW. By 2011 China will have more coal-fired capacity than the US and Europe."
http://www.engineerlive.com/Power-Engineer/Maintenance/Capacity_of_chine...
I guess they really are the new climate leader in CO2, particulate matter, and soot in general.
China may be trying very hard to be a climate leader, but the sad fact is that's impossible with very high growth rates in an industrial based (ie relatively energy intensive) economy. No government, not even the hard government that China has, can manage that kind of growth with respect to stabilizing GhG emissions. Much less reducing it on an absolute level.