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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 3 months ago

Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025

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Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025

www.carbonbrief.org

silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 3 months ago
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Analysis: Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025 - Carbon Brief
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Clean-energy growth helped China’s CO2 emissions fall by 1% in first half of 2025, extending a declining trend that started in March 2024.
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    That’s insane, kudos to them

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    Does anyone remember the “but what about China” retort by denialists any time we asked for fossil fuel reduction?

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      they still do this, by insisting on looking at total instead of per capita data

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    take that, doomers

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    I understand the importance of this achievement, but I have to ask - at what cost?

    E: /s

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      A pretty modest one actually. Its more expensive and damaging to burn coal than to install solar.

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        Was being sarcastic. 😅

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      What kind of cost are you expecting?

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        It’s a sarcastic statement meant to lampoon China-bad rhetoric which typically contrasts any positive Chinese achievement with the phrase “but at what cost,” followed by unrelated allegations about human rights violations.

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          Ahh, I just missed the sarcasm

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            Not your fault. It’s always a gamble. 😄

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    China installs solar farms without cables attached to make such claims in the recent past.

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      deleted by creator

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        that’s China for ya (I don’t think critically about the information that’s presented to me)

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      ah yes journalists and scientists but it seems you forgot the most important axiom of all: CHINA. BAD

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