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China’s Coal Production Will Peak In 2027

10:05 am in china, coal, resource consumption, Science & Technology by TreeHugger

via internet science tech We've covered the topic of peak coal a couple of times, so apropos of China's prodigious coal use actually masking global warming a bit over the past decade is some interesting analysis from The Oil Drum. Dr Minqi Li takes a look at peak coal in China (the nation is the world's largest producer of coal) and comes to the conclusion that by 2027 coal production there will peak, at about 5.1 billion tons. Globally minus China, Li notes, coal production will peak in 2027 as well, with an addition...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Things We Already Knew But Are Being Told Yet Again: US Domestic Inaction on Climate Stymies International Action & Resource Overconsumption Means We’re Going To Need Another Planet by 2050

3:46 pm in Business & Politics, congress, ecological footprint, global climate change, resource consumption, united nations, united states by TreeHugger

head in the sand photo photo: blakeimeson/Creative Commons Sorry about the exceedingly long headline (appallingly long by accepted standards of blogging brevity) but it somehow seems an appropriate when two of the weightier stories making their way around today are items that we have been told repeatedly over the past couple of years, but as no one seems to be heeding them, get retold on what seems like a semi-annual basis. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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