Explanations for the pause in global warming range from ocean oscillation cycles to
Chinese coal plant emissions, volcanic activity to some scientists even saying there is no hiatus in warming.
Not exact matches
Coal - burning power
plants accounted for another 38 percent of
Chinese mercury
emissions, and that percentage may be going up.
The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power
plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major
Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero
emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissi
coal - fired power
plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean
coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissi
coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao
Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissi
Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a
coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissi
coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas
emissions.
Two are located within the Arctic circle and are subject to CO2
emissions from the North Shore Oil industry and from
Chinese and Soviet
coal - burning
plants that smelt nickel, copper and tin.
Emissions from
coal plants in China were responsible for a quarter of a million premature deaths in 2011 and are damaging the health of hundreds of thousands of
Chinese children, according to a new study.
Recent figures suggested
emissions from
Chinese coal plants may have peaked last year, while the government in the past few months has announced a series of measures to curtail
coal development.
The effectiveness of these «offset» reductions is highly questionable: it is, for example, possible to credit investment in
Chinese coal plants as
emission «cuts».
Moreover the recent decline of the yearly increments d (CO2) / dt acknowledged by Francey et al (2013)(figure 17 - F) and even by James Hansen who say that the
Chinese coal emissions have been immensely beneficial to the
plants that are now bigger grow faster and eat more CO2 due to the fertilisation of the air (references in note 19) cast some doubts on those compartment models with many adjustable parameters, models proved to be blatantly wrong by observations as said very politely by Wang et al.: (Xuhui Wang et al: A two-fold increase of carbon cycle sensitivity to tropical temperature variations, Nature, 2014) «Thus, the problems present models have in reproducing the observed response of the carbon cycle to climate variability on interannual timescales may call into question their ability to predict the future evolution of the carbon cycle and its feedbacks to climate»
In addition, China has met its 2020
emissions reductions goal three years early (noting, though, that while
coal use in China is declining,
Chinese companies are working to build and finance the construction of
coal - fired power
plants elsewhere, like this project in Kenya.)