{"id":1649,"date":"2015-07-28T23:27:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T04:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2015-07-28T23:27:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T04:27:48","slug":"coal-digestion-ctd-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/07\/28\/coal-digestion-ctd-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal Digestion, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reader responds to the gloom and doom<\/a> concerning coal consumption:<\/p>\n

We’re in a race. If the refuseniks win, we’re doomed. Coal usage in the USA is going down, but we have a lot of it and are selling it … to China, where usage is going up fast.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, the latest figures (from May ’15) disagree.\u00a0 This image is from CleanTechnica<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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who in turn borrowed it from an interactive chart<\/a> provided by Greenpeace<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 From Greenpeace<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

Official data from China shows coal use continuing to fall precipitously \u2013 bringing carbon dioxide emissions down with it.<\/p>\n

The data \u2013 which comes months before crucial climate talks in Paris \u2013 means China has cut emissions during the first four months of the year by roughly the same amount as the total carbon emissions of the United Kingdom over the same period.<\/p>\n

The figures suggest the decline in China\u2019s coal use is accelerating after data\u00a0for last year showed<\/a> China\u2019s coal use fell for the first time this century<\/a><\/p>\n

An analysis of the data by Greenpeace\/Energydesk China<\/a> suggests coal consumption in the world\u2019s largest economy fell by almost 8% and CO2 emissions by around 5% in the first four months of the year, compared with the same period in 2014.<\/p>\n

It comes after the latest data \u2013 for April \u2013 showed coal output down 7.4% year on year\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0amidst reports of fundamental reform for the sector.\u00a0<\/a>China also recently ordered more than 1,000 coal mines to close<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I did not see any further data beyond May of this year, however, so the trend, while encouraging, is a little like judging an ant colony from five ants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A reader responds to the gloom and doom concerning coal consumption: We’re in a race. If the refuseniks win, we’re doomed. Coal usage in the USA is going down, but we have a lot of it and are selling it … to China, where usage is going up fast. Actually, \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}