Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by thehappypm on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:24AM
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Wait. Are you saying that Russian gas, combusted in the EU, counts towards Russia's CO2 output? that makes zero sense.
Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by keewee7 on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:32AM
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The natural gas industry in Russia emits a lot of CO2 by itself.
Generally the fossil fuel industry is one of the largest emitters if CO2 by itself. That is why countries like Russia and Saudi Arabia are among the top CO2 emitters in the world.
Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by hnmullany on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:42AM
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Chinese emissions are primarily because of a choice to exploit its thermal coal reserves for power generation instead of going nuclear. Probably was cheaper and faster to go that way - but it was definitely a choice.
Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by amanaplanacanal on Monday August 09, 2021 @10:40AM
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As far as I can tell from an American perspective, the US has always done what was cheapest and fastest, and we still do. I sure wouldn’t expect China to do anything different.
Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by liuliu on Monday August 09, 2021 @04:00PM
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China only recently has a 3G reactor design that is 100% Chinese IP. The state-owned enterprise that handles nuclear reactor construction is on the U.S. entity list.
Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by yissp on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:56AM
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Would having to curb CO2 emissions stunt Indian / African economic development more than the effects of climate change will? Those two areas are particularly vulnerable to the worst of the impacts as I understand it (extreme heat, food supply disruption, etc.)
Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by keewee7 on Monday August 09, 2021 @10:03AM
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Poverty and hunger is killing more people in India and Africa than extreme weather.
Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by wutbrodo on Monday August 09, 2021 @10:16AM
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Poverty and hunger are downstream of climate shocks, not separate from it. Drought and other extreme weather events are powerful historical causes of war and famine.
The GP question is whether that dynamic is canceled out by the economic benefits of polluting energy technologies.
Russian rise in emissions is because of Western European need for heating.
If we stop outsourcing manufacturing to China and stop buying gas from Russia their emissions will also fall.
But India and Africa are significantly poorer than China and Russia.
India and Africa should be allowed to emit CO2 for the next two decades or they will remain poor forever.