China Says Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Is Unrealistic

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Phasing out fossil fuels is unrealistic as oil, natural gas, and coal will continue to play a crucial role in global energy supply and energy security, China’s special climate envoy Xie Zhenhua said this week in a speech obtained by Reuters.

“It is unrealistic to completely phase out fossil fuel energy,” Xie, who will represent China at COP28 in Dubai in November, told ambassadors in Beijing ahead of the climate summit.
China is the world’s biggest consumer of coal and the largest importer of crude oil. Despite soaring renewable power capacity installations in recent years, China continues to consume growing volumes of coal, oil, and natural gas and continues to approve the construction of new coal-fired power capacity.

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If the U.S. continues to go bankrupt in pursuit of "Net Zero" it will have zero impact on the Earth's climate because China, India and most non-OECD countries cannot afford the Green New Deal.

The Earth's climate is an extremely complex system. The notion that controlling CO2 levels in the atmosphere will control the Earth's climate is nonsense. If we can control the Sun's radiation that might work.