{"id":7811,"date":"2017-11-15T21:47:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T20:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7811"},"modified":"2017-11-15T21:47:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T20:47:02","slug":"global-climate-emissions-set-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7811","title":{"rendered":"global climate emissions set to increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSC_2911.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7814\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSC_2911-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_2911\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSC_2911-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSC_2911-1024x499.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Global climate emissions are set to increase this year by 2%.\u00a0 This is an unexpected, unwelcome surprise and is thought to be due to China.\u00a0 EU and other developed country emissions have dropped, but by less than was expected.\u00a0 The reason Chinese emissions have increased is due to a drought.\u00a0 This hit hydropower output and thus the Chinese used coal fired power stations to make up the difference.\u00a0 There are warnings here in what has been generally encouraging figures on global climate emissions over the last 3\/4 years.\u00a0 First the very problems of climate change could hit power output from renewables.\u00a0 The weather is much more variable (some would say crazy).\u00a0 This means that there maybe less wind\/water\/sun.\u00a0 The second warning to take from this despite the success of renewables and now electric cars and batteries is that we have not got the problem licked.\u00a0 We can take encouragement though.\u00a0 The days when we were told that there was no point in doing anything since the Chinese were opening a new coal powered power station every week are over.\u00a0 In fact they have been mothballing them and making huge investments in electric vehicles, solar and wind.\u00a0 This is in part not just because of global climate emissions but due to old fashioned particulate emissions.\u00a0 I am optimistic that if we keep on this road emissions will peak in time.<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global climate emissions are set to increase this year by 2%.\u00a0 This is an unexpected, unwelcome surprise and is thought to be due to China.\u00a0 EU and other developed country emissions have dropped, but by less than was expected.\u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7811\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,1],"tags":[269,275,61],"class_list":["post-7811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-renewables","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-coal","tag-renewable-energy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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