While U.S. emissions have continued to drop since 2005, China's carbon usage keeps pace with its economic growth.
At this pace China's emissions will reach 8 gigatons a year by 2030, which is equal to the entire world's CO2 production today.
That's just the most stunning in a series of datapoints about the Chinese economy reported in a policy brief in the latest issue of the journal Science.
Coal power has been driving the stunning, seven plus percent a year growth in China's economy. It's long been said that China was adding one new coal power plant per week to its grid. But the real news is worse: China is completing two new coal plants per week.
And yet with all these numbers, Chinese per capita emissions remain one-quarter of our own here in the US. If the Chinese economy steps into our carbon footprint, all other greenhouse gas reduction efforts will be for naught.
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Coal power has been driving the stunning, seven plus percent a year growth in China's economy. It's long been said that China was adding one new coal power plant per week to its grid. But the real news is worse: China is completing two new coal plants per week.
And yet with all these numbers, Chinese per capita emissions remain one-quarter of our own here in the US. If the Chinese economy steps into our carbon footprint, all other greenhouse gas reduction efforts will be for naught.
FULL STORY here See also here
