Larry Hamlin
Biden’s Energy Secretary Says US Can ‘Learn’ From China on Climate Change
In a stark demonstration of the Biden administration’s arrogance, incompetence and incoherence, its understanding of the realities of global energy use, his ignorant Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, at a recent conference praised China’s efforts (as pictured below) to tackle climate change and declared that the United States can “learn” from what China is doing.
A Republican attending the conference exposed the utter absurdity of Secretary Granholm’s statements by noting:
“Ap They have to be held accountable.”
The The International Energy Agency (IEA) last year released a report showing that global CO2 emissions by 2022 have risen back to their highest levels and blamed increased coal use as the main driving factor for the increase as highlighted in the report. their report.
Coal is dominant in driving China’s energy use as well as the energy use of all the countries that make up the developing countries identified as non-OECD countries.
Coal is not dominant in US energy use so perhaps Energy Secretary Granholm has suggested that we should use more coal in our country’s energy mix based on “learning”. from the Chinese example.
year BP Statistical assessment of world energy in 2022 Links are available that provide exceptional insight into the world’s energy use and emissions for the period 1965-2021 as shown below from their report.
BP report shows how fossil fuels dominate global energy consumption and how negligible renewables are despite decades of mandatory subsidies of trillions of dollars worldwide. demand to increase the use of unreliable renewable energy as below.
The BP report identifies that China consumes more than 53% of total global coal energy use (86.17 exajoules versus 160.10 exajoules) and in fact uses more coal than all other countries. in the world combined.
In addition, coal accounts for more than 54% of China’s total energy use in 2022 (86.17 exajoule vs. 157.65 exajoule) with China’s coal use having increased by more than 55% since (86, 17 exajoules vs 55.46 exajoules) 2005.
BP data shows that by 2022, the world’s developing nations will account for more than 81% of total global energy (130.41 exajoules versus 160.10 exajoules) using coal.
The IEA report shows that coal accounts for more than 42% of total global CO2 emissions in 2022 so far, almost any fuel using energy although coal use accounts for only about 27% of total use global fuel (160.10 exajoules vs 595.15 exajoules).
U.S. coal use accounts for only about 11% of total energy consumption in 2022 (10.57 exajoules vs. 92.97 exajoule) and in fact the United States has reduced its energy use by more than 53% amount of coal since (10.57 exajoules versus 22.85 exajoules) in 2005.
Clearly, Energy Secretary Granholm may find these comparisons worrisome because they show that the United States has not “learned” to use more coal by following China’s example.
In addition, it seems that Energy Secretary Granholm believes that using more coal is the most effective way to combat climate change because it follows the example of China.
IEA publishes report provide data that clearly shows that China is the biggest driver increase in global CO2 emissions while the US, EU and Japan have continuously reduced CO2 emissions for decades.
How can the US Secretary of Energy be so bad at global energy use and emissions when available energy use and emissions data clearly establish that for decades China has been the driving force. The leading edge of increasing global coal use and global CO2 emissions is completely unforgivable and an embarrassment for the Biden Administration and the United States.
In addition, EIA data shows that the future of increasing global energy use includes the growth of coal and other fossil fuels as outlined in the report. recent WUWT article shown below regardless of which political scammers falsely push zeros and renewables using political propaganda falsely advertising.
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