Opinion: What if China saved the world and nobody noticed? | Nick O'Malley
. In the wake of the pandemic, it stimulated its economy by ramping up coal production so much that climate observation satellites detected new plumes of methane emissions leaking from mines across Inner Mongolia.
As international energy analyst Tim Buckley puts it, while China leads the world in coal use, it also leads the world in “wind and solar installation, in wind and solar manufacturing, in electric vehicle production, in batteries, in hydro, in nuclear, in ground heat pumps, in grid transmission and distribution, and in green hydrogen. They literally lead the world in every zero emissions technology today.
The retreat of glaciers in western China is expected to reduce annual spring flows into the nation’s system of rivers. This is why one of the largest infrastructure projects in human history is China’s so-called South-North Water Transfer Project.“There are no climate deniers in China, or at least no climate deniers who are allowed to have a voice,” McGregor says. “You can tell that very easily because China’s official media is not full of people denying climate change.
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