The Center for American Progress reports:
Obama is famously low key. That's why on the hit Comedy Central show "Key & Peele", Keegan-Michael Key plays "Luther, President Obama's anger translator". The [annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner], however, is a rare place where the President can cut loose--as long as he uses humor.
In a hilarious admission that he has been too low key to convey the moral outrage justified by humanity's myopic march toward self-destruction--and by the brazen denial of climate science by many conservatives--Obama brought out "Luther" to express that outrage. And then, in an ingenious twist, Obama became so outraged that he didn't need Luther and in fact Luther himself couldn't take the genuinely angry Obama, who says of denial, "What kind of stupid, shortsighted, irresponsible, bull-"
Here's a video of the event.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday April 28 2015, @05:01PM
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday April 28 2015, @05:17PM
China’s recent scrapping of small coal plants will avoid the release of as much as 11.4 million metric tons annually of climate-warming carbon dioxide, helping the country cut emissions for the first time in more than a decade.
The impact is a sign of what’s to come as China pushes for a cap on coal and moves to shutter, or refit, its dirtiest coal-burning power plants. China overhauled or scrapped as much as 3.3 gigawatts of the facilities in 2014, according to a March statement from the National Bureau of Statistics. Reference [bloomberg.com]
China's commitment to renewables dwarfs that of the U.S. and other industrialized countries. From 2010 to 2012 alone, China’s renewable electricity growth was double that of the U.S., and it is continuing to grow.Reference [climatecentral.org]
To be fair, capacity is estimated to still be increasing though at a decreasing rate. Actual CO2 emissions are dropping though.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday April 28 2015, @06:12PM
Actual CO2 emissions are dropping though.
No, they aren't. It's worth noting here that half of new carbon dioxide emissions per year are due to China.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday April 28 2015, @09:18PM
Try reading the very first sentence of my post. Most people do that BEFORE responding, but, whatever floats your boat (except displacement of course, that supports global warming)...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday April 29 2015, @04:12AM
Moving on, any slow down in China's CO2 emissions are probably due to their slow down in economic growth. Let us keep in mind that everyone else slowed down as well in CO2 emissions, in part for that same reason. Sure, shutting down their most polluting coal burning plants is nice, I even expected that. But it's more than replaced by more modern coal burning plants which still emit CO2. And when economic growth increases in the near future, it still looks to me like China will do the lion's share of the growing both in economic terms and in CO2 emissions.