U.S. Emissions Rise, China’s Fall, in Massive Shift Between World’s Biggest Climate Polluters

U.S. Emissions Rise, China’s Fall, in Massive Shift Between World’s Biggest Climate Polluters



by Red_Prawn_Durian

19 comments

  1. I think global emissions may be nearing peak if China can maintain this trajectory.

    In the first 6 months, China dropped -2.7% (-150.38 Mt Co2) where as World emissions increased 0.7% (126.93 Mt Co2).

    https://carbonmonitor.org/variation

  2. Because most of our politicians are owned by the polluters.

  3. The US always doing the bare minimum to help make the world a better place.

  4. Non story. US always has rising emissions for the first months of the year. And yet, despite this they keep decreasing emissions annually.

    Just like the last 27 years.

  5. It was inevitable. China is adding a staggering amount of clean energy capacity to its grid and more than half of its new car sales are now electric. Oil consumption may have already peaked. Meanwhile the US races in the opposite direction with Trump trying to throttle clean energy and increase fossil fuel burning. If that sounds insane it is.

  6. Keep voting red America. When we could do the right thing we now do the opposite. What a shameful country we have become.

  7. Wouldn’t it be awesome if the United States could be part of the solution?

  8. are there any resources that would show long term employment numbers by solar/wind vs oil/gas? Does moving renewable really lose jobs or gain them long term?

  9. American votes for this.
    I didn’t.

    And the killer is electricity was cheaper meaning EVs were cheaper to fuel. I’m luckily locked into a TOU rate with solar panels. However I’m sure my provider will get rid of that and then it’ll be about the same if not cheaper for me to charge as fuel. This country is run by low IQ 🦕-obsessed fools.

  11. Whats crazy is the US had a smaller percentage of emissions rise compared to other countries like brazil, germany, spain, and the EU as a whole. I know the US is regressing on a lot but this might not a uniquely american thing unfortunately

  12. So apparently US GDP/capita is 7x that of China, yet somehow they seem more progressive.

  13. This must be causing cognitive dissonance for the MAGA-folk. They hate clean energy but they hate China beating the US at anything even more. They’re still bashing China for burning coal without seeming to realize that their leader is now the world’s biggest coal stan.

  15. Going backward to line the pockets of the cronies.

  18. Any article that thinks CO2 is a pollutant is written by someone who doesn’t understand science.

  19. The cost of insurance also should be a factor in all this.

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