{"id":969207,"date":"2021-11-04T19:58:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T23:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=969207"},"modified":"2021-11-04T19:58:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T23:58:49","slug":"study-worlds-worst-polluter-china-polluting-even-more-post-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-worlds-worst-polluter-china-polluting-even-more-post-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: World\u2019s Worst Polluter China Polluting Even More Post-Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstudy-worlds-worst-polluter-china-polluting-even-more-post-pandemic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=969207&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-800065550-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>An international organization called the Global Carbon Project published a report on Thursday that found China\u2019s carbon emissions are projected to rise by four percent this year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The group said China\u2019s emissions even rose during 2020, when pandemic lockdowns reduced carbon emissions from industry and travel around the world, leaving China\u2019s carbon output 5.5 percent higher than it was before the pandemic began.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The Global Carbon Project, which includes about a hundred researchers in 17 countries, said the rest of the world reduced its emissions by 5.4 percent during the 2020 lockdowns and is only now returning to pre-pandemic 2019 levels. China, on the other hand, never stopped getting worse.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.9144385026738\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Global emissions almost back to pre-pandemic levels after unprecedented drop in 2020, new analysis shows <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xTw2NkfUz3\">https:\/\/t.co\/xTw2NkfUz3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GlobalCarbonProject (@gcarbonproject) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gcarbonproject\/status\/1456228964058361859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cLast year, China emitted 31 per cent of the world\u2019s fossil fuel carbon dioxide, followed by the U.S. at 14 per cent, the European Union at seven per cent and India also at seven per cent. The four accounted for 59 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions,\u201d the <\/span><i><span>South China Morning Post<\/span><\/i><span> (<em>SCMP<\/em>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3154745\/cop26-chinas-carbon-emissions-set-pass-pre-pandemic-levels\">noted<\/a>&nbsp;Thursday.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Global Carbon Project seemed inclined to give China the benefit of the doubt, arguing its emissions increase was understandable because \u201cthe rest of the world is asking for China for a lot of products, which has pushed the industry to really require so much energy,\u201d as project director Pep Canadell put it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Chinese made no new commitments at last week\u2019s massive (and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/30\/photos-biden-cruises-rome-with-85-car-motorcade-before-climate-summit\/\"><span>fantastically dirty<\/span><\/a><span>) COP26 climate summit in Scotland, but once again the climate change movement was remarkably forgiving of the world\u2019s worst polluters, granting a great deal of credence to Chinese promises that its rapidly expanding carbon footprint will level off around 2030 and decline to \u201cnet zero\u201d by 2060.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>China, meanwhile, is hauling record-breaking mountains of coal from both domestic and overseas mines, in what Chinese officials <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/10\/21\/climate-change-china-launches-all-out-coal-production-campaign\/\"><span>described<\/span><\/a><span> as an \u201call-out\u201d effort to fuel their carbon-spewing coal-fired power plants and avert a severe power shortage in their industrial provinces. Beijing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/10\/29\/china-pledges-to-increase-pollution-for-another-decade\/\"><span>admitted<\/span><\/a><span> it plans to <\/span><i><span>increase <\/span><\/i><span>its emissions every year for at least the next decade during COP26.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When teenage climate change celebrity Greta Thunberg dared to notice this week that China has embarked on a wild coal-mining and coal-burning spree while the rest of the world struggles to reduce carbon emissions, China <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/environment\/2021\/11\/02\/china-greta-thunberg-uneducated-beijing\/\"><span>responded<\/span><\/a><span> by dismissing her as an uneducated bumpkin.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international organization called the Global Carbon Project published a report on Thursday that found China\u2019s carbon emissions are projected to rise by four percent this year. 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