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Photo by Serg Balak on Unsplash By Jo Nova Potentially, fifty years from now people may look back and marvel at how easily (and cheaply) China could wind up the Western liberals, and how they got away with it...

Nepal Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal’s request for a foreign response to his country’s disastrous Himalayan flood would be better made as an appeal to the charitable instincts of people than as a demand for compensation...

China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) and later targets have called for, among other measures, the creation of around 100 million tonnes/year of coal production-capacity reserve (production+net imports-consumption)...

King et al By Jo Nova This is not a race we can afford to lose AI may well be a stock investment bubble, but the AI arms race is a hell-for-leather battle where the winner takes it all With AI development on an exponential...

...in China, 55% of power is produced by coal and the cost of household electricity is 8 cents per kWh. In the UK, coal’s percentage of electricity was 30% in 2010 but that has declined to less than 1%. Consequently, the...

“American taxpayers should not finance the expansion of Chinese-controlled battery companies inside the United States.”

Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash By Jo Nova We’re facing the sixth mass extinction but carbon accounting games are a performance art and almost no one cares that the largest emitter on Earth has gaping holes in their...

Voters in a California city ban AI data center construction, plans for Utah data center shrinking over backlash, Seattle issues one-year prohibition on center construction.

Apparently disappearing half of China's emissions has a perfectly reasonable explanation.

Exclusive: Jimblebar processing facility would have produced higher quality iron ore sought by steelmakers around the world – themselves under pressure to curb pollution

Exclusive: BHP once dubbed climate change an ‘existential’ threat. But leaked documents show it has backtracked on decarbonisation at a vast network of mines

China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing results, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock

OWID By Jo Nova

My bet is that within about a decade, China will be taking multi hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions of dollars, of write-offs on its wind energy investments.

Turner said that for too long, climate has “served as a shield,” in which imputed good intentions can mask backscratching and failure.