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posted by n1 on Thursday May 18 2017, @01:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the smoke-the-competition dept.

As corporations, citizens and governments continue to urge the Trump administration to stick with the Paris Climate Agreement, a new analysis is undercutting one of the climate naysayers primary objections:

China and India are actually years ahead of their climate commitments.

Those, at least, are the findings from Climate Action Tracker which suggest that scaling back of coal consumption in both countries is likely to be enough to 'cancel out' the expected slowing down of progress by the United States under President Trump. India, for example, had pledged to lower the emissions intensity by 33 to 35 percent by 2030 compared to 2005 levels. The new analysis suggests they will leap past that mark to a 42 to 45 percent cut in emissions intensity by 2030.


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 18 2017, @03:18AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 18 2017, @03:18AM (#511518)

    > Until someone coughs up something the Ancients called "evidence", this is no more than schoolyard bickering.

    Are neither you able to click the provided link?

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 18 2017, @03:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 18 2017, @03:27AM (#511523)

    You're not the boss of us!