China CO2 emissions from energy sector still on rise - researchers
November 14, 2019 / 2:05 AM / Updated 8 hours ago
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China’s emissions of the climate-warming greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from its energy sector are expected to increase this year and next, driven by rising oil and gas consumption instead of by coal, a team of industry experts warned on Thursday.
The oil and gas sectors could add more than 200 million tonnes of carbon dioxide to China’s total emissions, meaning overall greenhouse gas from energy use would still rise 2% this year and 1.2% in 2020, said researchers with the “China Coal Cap Research Project†at a Thursday briefing. ...
The research team, led by the Natural Resources Defense Council, a U.S. think tank, is urging China to cut its coal use by at least 400 million tonnes ...
Steve Milloy, who posted this on Twitter, comments:
Steve Milloy @JunkScience
These 'researchers' are from the radical green group @NRDC, which is paid by the communist Chinese gov't.
When the GOP ran Congress, it was investigating whether the Chinese communists were really paying NRDC to sabotage the US economy via climate.
9:42 AM · Nov 14, 2019
