China's Global Warming Hoax Exposed

[rangerrebew]

China's Global Warming Hoax Exposed
China is ramping up the production and burning of coal even as its leaders lecture Donald Trump about climate change. (©kamilpetran-Fotolia/stock.adobe.com)

China is ramping up the production and burning of coal even as its leaders lecture Donald Trump about climate change. (©kamilpetran-Fotolia/stock.adobe.com)

    12/01/2016

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Climate Change: Even as China is busy blasting Donald Trump for not taking global warming seriously it's ramping up coal production and throwing its promised CO2 reductions out the window. Hopefully, Trump won't be as easily fooled by China's duplicity as President Obama.

At a meeting of environmental officials earlier this month in Marrakech, Morocco, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin lectured Trump about the importance of climate change.

Just a few days later, the New York Times reported that "China is scrambling to mine and burn more coal," and Fortune reported that the country is currently building $500 billion worth of new coal plants.

http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/chinas-co2-commitments-go-up-in-smoke/

[kidd]

I was in China for three months in 2016.

The air in the interior of China (Beijing) is positively filthy.
I am talking about real air pollution (smog, sulfates, particulates), not fake (carbon dioxide) pollution.
Visibility was less than a 1/4 mile due to pollution.

On the coast (Shanghai), the sulfates were very high, but visibility was better.

Two weeks before this past October's G20 summit in Hangzhao, China made all factory workers take a two week vacation so that the air could clean itself up before all the world's news crews arrived. It worked.
Then, after the summit was over, the air went back to its smelly self.

I'm not sure what kind of game they are playing by drawing attention to themselves like this.

[The_Reader_David]

One reason the climate models are all off is that none of them actually account for the degree to which soot from coal burning, esp. in China, but also in India and Russia, has change the Arctic albedo. 

A very recent paper documents this:

Tedesco, M., Doherty, S., Fettweis, X., Alexander, P., Jeyaratnam, J., and Stroeve, J.: The darkening of the Greenland ice sheet: trends, drivers, and projections (1981–2100), The Cryosphere, 10, 477-496, doi:10.5194/tc-10-477-2016, 2016.

The darkening of the Arctic ice sheet (by "light absorbing impurities" as the abstract of that paper calls soot), unlike the CO2-induced warming hypothesis, explains the asymmetry between the Arctic, which is undoubtedly warming, and Antarctic, where temperatures have been, for the most part, dropping of late.

The problem is, politically, this doesn't give the EU, the UN or the Feds in the US an excuse to seize control of energy production and use, since the solution to the problem of Anthropogenic Arctic Warming is for the Chinese, Russians and Indians to pass and enforce analogues of the American Clean Air Act.