Global thermal coal exports and power use to hit new highs in 2024

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/global-thermal-coal-exports-power-use-hit-new-highs-2024-maguire-2024-12-10/

by passwordoops • 2 years ago

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lm284693• 2 years ago

We pretty much hit new fossil highs every year: https://assets.ourworldindata.org/grapher/exports/global-fos...

Their trick is to talk about percentage and to tell you not to worry because solar and wind are growing X percent per year. When you look at absolutes coal, gas and petrol are also growing #GreenRevolution

passwordoops• 2 years ago

The other trick is to talk about per capita consumption, which is completely irrelevant when talking about the impact of global GHG emissions

lm284693• 2 years ago

I'm not sure why you get downvoted, it's also true.

China generates four times more co2 than the US but per capita they're polluting half as much as the US

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita

https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by...

squigz• 2 years ago

You seem to be implying that percentage is unimportant. I'm curious why? It seems reasonable to me that as our power needs increase, all sources will increase - as long as we continue to grow renewable use relative to the others, isn't that good? Obviously there's a discussion to be had about how quickly renewables are growing, but this just doesn't seem like a very generous framing of the situation.

metalman• 2 years ago

No.This has nothing to do with averages or proportions.Its a done deal. Per capita energy use (world) will continue to climb,atmospheric CO2(etc) will continue to climb. Runnaway, global warming, fueled climate change, will happen, on this, our only world. The degree to which this effects any indivual, on the other hand, will have many variables.

lm284693• 2 years ago

It's important because we emit too much co2, for a while now, so adding green enegery on top doesn't change the fact that we are utterly fucked.

Even if we were 99% renewable we'd still be fucked if we produced as much co2 as today

Global thermal coal exports and power use to hit new highs in 2024

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