I said I won't discuss AGW with you denier kooks anymore since I've long ago discredited every lame argument you guys could dig up from Anthony Watts and his Heartland funded buddies.This is not a discussion for me, just rubbing it in further.
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Chinese President Details Wide-Ranging Carbon Pollution Pledge At White House
BY RYAN KORONOWSKI SEP 25, 2015
The Pope may have left Washington, D.C. after urging the United States to act on climate change at the White House, but the leader of the world’s largest country is in town to talk about some serious climate action of his own.
At a White House press conference Friday afternoon, U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a suite of wide-ranging actions that clarify how serious the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter is about cutting greenhouse gas emissions. These include prioritizing green energy on China’s grid, a cap-and-trade or emissions trading system for China, additional low-carbon financing to developing countries, and emissions standards for heavy duty vehicles. The fact that these announcements were made during the world’s most important bilateral meeting and official state visit lends them further significance.
A Senior administration official told reporters on a call Thursday afternoon that the two leaders would unveil a joint presidential statement on what the world’s two largest polluters will do to actually achieve the carbon pollution targets they agreed upon last year. In that agreement. the U.S. pledged to cut emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. China pledged to peak its carbon dioxide emissions at or before 2030, cap coal use by 2020, and get 20 percent of its energy from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030. This would mean deploying enough renewable energy capacity to power the entire United States — 800 to 1,000 gigawatts.
Until this week, the biggest news of how either country would fulfill those promises came from the release of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, which uses authority granted under the Clean Air Act to require states to cut carbon pollution in the electricity sector.
Friday’s announcement sheds more light on how China will meet or exceed the emissions reduction targets it set last year.
Read the rest below
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/09/25/3705464/us-china-climate-visit-pledges/
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Chinese President Details Wide-Ranging Carbon Pollution Pledge At White House
BY RYAN KORONOWSKI SEP 25, 2015
The Pope may have left Washington, D.C. after urging the United States to act on climate change at the White House, but the leader of the world’s largest country is in town to talk about some serious climate action of his own.
At a White House press conference Friday afternoon, U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a suite of wide-ranging actions that clarify how serious the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter is about cutting greenhouse gas emissions. These include prioritizing green energy on China’s grid, a cap-and-trade or emissions trading system for China, additional low-carbon financing to developing countries, and emissions standards for heavy duty vehicles. The fact that these announcements were made during the world’s most important bilateral meeting and official state visit lends them further significance.
A Senior administration official told reporters on a call Thursday afternoon that the two leaders would unveil a joint presidential statement on what the world’s two largest polluters will do to actually achieve the carbon pollution targets they agreed upon last year. In that agreement. the U.S. pledged to cut emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. China pledged to peak its carbon dioxide emissions at or before 2030, cap coal use by 2020, and get 20 percent of its energy from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030. This would mean deploying enough renewable energy capacity to power the entire United States — 800 to 1,000 gigawatts.
Until this week, the biggest news of how either country would fulfill those promises came from the release of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, which uses authority granted under the Clean Air Act to require states to cut carbon pollution in the electricity sector.
Friday’s announcement sheds more light on how China will meet or exceed the emissions reduction targets it set last year.
Read the rest below
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/09/25/3705464/us-china-climate-visit-pledges/
