President Obama
told people
that he convinced
China to get serious
about cutting their
carbon dioxide
emissions.
Obama declared
“we may see this
as the moment
that we finally
decided to save
our planet.”
President Barack
"gullible" Obama
was conned by
the Chinese.
China actually
promised only to
“stabilize” CO2
emissions by 2030,
while the rest
of the industrialized
world spent a fortune
“decarbonizing”
their economies.
Even before
Obama's boast:
In late 2015
people found out
China had far more
coal plants than
it had admitted,
and had been
emitting a billion
tons more CO2
than officially
proclaimed.
CO2 emissions
for China are still
not known with
any accuracy.
China was telling
Obama it was taking
bold steps on climate
change, but was not.
In the past two years,
China increased
its energy production
from coal by nearly
43 gigawatts, more than
offsetting the decline
of coal production
in the rest of the world.
The coal plants now
under construction
in China would produce
the same amount
of energy as the
entire current
coal-generating
capacity of the
European Union.
The massive spree
of coal project
permitting was from
September 2014
to March 2016,
the same years
President Xi was
promising Obama
that China was serious
about global warming.
China is also financing
coal plants in other countries,
such as South Africa,
Pakistan and Bangladesh.