There is no dancing around with the Rockhouse purpose in presenting this article since it's a straight-up kill shot on Donald Trump's plans to lift restrictions on coal plants, in total defiance of international climate change accords.
India will not be able to meet its Paris climate agreement commitments in the coming years if it carries through with plans to construct nearly 370 coal-fired power plants, according to University of California, Irvine and CoalSwarm researchers.
"India is facing a dilemma of its own making," said UCI associate professor of Earth system science Steven Davis, co-author of a study published today in the American Geophysical Union journal Earth's Future. "The country has vowed to curtail its use of fossil fuels in electricity generation, but it has also put itself on a path to building hundreds of coal-burning power plants to feed its growing industrial economy."
Science Daily: India's outsized coal plans would wipe out Paris climate goals
Making False Promises
India has pledged to the international community to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide released per unit of gross domestic product by as much as 35 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 and to increase renewable energy in its power grids. The construction of 65 gigawatts' worth of coal-burning generation facilities with an additional 178 gigawatts in the planning stages would make it nearly impossible for India to fulfill those climate promises, the researchers said.
- SD
The Damage
But the UCI and CoalSwarm researchers stressed that there are significant downsides to the fossil fuel habit. In addition to spewing harmful soot and other types of air pollution coal-burning power plants are the largest source of carbon dioxide on Earth, accounting for 41 percent of all CO2 emissions in 2015. Choices that individual countries make in regard to their energy mix have planetwide consequences.
"India's proposed coal plants will almost single-handedly jeopardize the internationally agreed-upon climate target of avoiding more than 1.5 degrees Celsius of mean global warming," Davis said.
- SD
Acid rain isn't even mentioned anymore but coal-fired plants are great for that forest-killing crap too.
Ed: America has no climate change accords.
Ignoring them doesn't obviate the dishonor in failing to achieve them. Climate change is about all the children, not just some of them.
India will not be able to meet its Paris climate agreement commitments in the coming years if it carries through with plans to construct nearly 370 coal-fired power plants, according to University of California, Irvine and CoalSwarm researchers.
"India is facing a dilemma of its own making," said UCI associate professor of Earth system science Steven Davis, co-author of a study published today in the American Geophysical Union journal Earth's Future. "The country has vowed to curtail its use of fossil fuels in electricity generation, but it has also put itself on a path to building hundreds of coal-burning power plants to feed its growing industrial economy."
Science Daily: India's outsized coal plans would wipe out Paris climate goals
Making False Promises
India has pledged to the international community to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide released per unit of gross domestic product by as much as 35 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 and to increase renewable energy in its power grids. The construction of 65 gigawatts' worth of coal-burning generation facilities with an additional 178 gigawatts in the planning stages would make it nearly impossible for India to fulfill those climate promises, the researchers said.
- SD
The Damage
But the UCI and CoalSwarm researchers stressed that there are significant downsides to the fossil fuel habit. In addition to spewing harmful soot and other types of air pollution coal-burning power plants are the largest source of carbon dioxide on Earth, accounting for 41 percent of all CO2 emissions in 2015. Choices that individual countries make in regard to their energy mix have planetwide consequences.
"India's proposed coal plants will almost single-handedly jeopardize the internationally agreed-upon climate target of avoiding more than 1.5 degrees Celsius of mean global warming," Davis said.
- SD
Acid rain isn't even mentioned anymore but coal-fired plants are great for that forest-killing crap too.
Ed: America has no climate change accords.
Ignoring them doesn't obviate the dishonor in failing to achieve them. Climate change is about all the children, not just some of them.
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