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By Jo Nova
China wants to rule the world
And so the media circus continues. China’s new five year plans are out, and no matter what they are, the media has to pretend China is a good little carbon player like everyone else. No one can admit the truth, that China’s emissions are so big everyone else is irrelevant. That China breaks all the rules while cornering the market selling junk wind-and-solar-generators to an audience that doesn’t need them.
To say so would destroy the illusion — like turning up to a party with a carton of antimatter.
And now China wants to govern the vassal states (like Australia) presumably to make sure they continue to be forced to buy the junk generators, so they can’t compete with China in making real things.
Climate change is a racket that serves China and the UN.
[Bloomberg] China aims to “actively participate in and lead global climate governance,” according to a draft of the country’s 2026-2030 five-year plan published Thursday.
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- Nation will “uphold the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities” and “fully implement the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement”
- NOTE: China’s backing comes after the US withdrew from the Paris accord for a second time, and exited a raft of UN bodies focused on climate action
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While the developed world have been sabotaging their own economies, China’s carbon emissions have lifted off with a rocket. In their last five year plan they promised only to reduce carbon intensity, which is not the same as “carbon emissions”. Carbon intensity measures how much carbon dioxide they produce per unit of GDP. So they can reduce intensity, while they burn more coal than ever, (which they are) as long as the economy is growing even faster than their coal burning. (Which it is). Thus and verily they are putting out more CO2 but making more fridges for the world for the same bucketload of emissions.
If we believe the UN propaganda “carbon intensity” doesn’t heat the planet, only carbon emission do*, but no one cares that China uses an accounting trick to pretend it is “doing something”.
In the last five year plan China promised to reduce its carbon “intensity” by 18 percent, but only succeeded in reducing it by 12%. In the next five years they are only going to aim for a 17% reduction. and they have given up even saying they are planning to phase out coal power.
So how does Reuters report this?
“China unveils plan to decarbonise economy but stops short of quitting coal”
This is what China’s emissions look like (below). I can’t see a whole lot of stopping short of quitting coal in that graph?
Bloomberg meanwhile says: “China Is Staying Cautious on Its Path to Hit Peak Emissions“. It’s a headline that hits the right Climate Bingo keywords but says almost nothing, other than China is still increasing its emissions.
“We will actively yet prudently work toward peaking carbon emissions and achieving carbon neutrality,” Premier Li Qiang said.
What he didn’t say was that they might not “achieve carbon neutrality” for a thousand years. But who cares, right? Not the Greens, that’s for sure.