China's greenhouse emissions will continue to rise

China recently overtook United States by becoming world's largest CO2 emitter, and it looks like China's greenhouse gas emissions will rise in years to come since China's government announced that plans to increase its coal production by about 30 percent by 2015 to meet its rising energy needs. This will of course give even more negative impact to already worrying global warming as the cheapest but also the dirtiest fuel coal will remain China's dominant energy source in years to come. Coal counts for about 70 % of China's energy needs, and its burning is the most responsible for China's excessive CO2 emissions.

China's coal production will rise in years to come giving even more negative impact to global warming

China talks a lot about necessity of turning to renewable energy sector, and its efforts to develop different renewable energies, but these "efforts" are almost invisible in reality. As long coal and other fossil fuels remain dominant energy sources in big countries world will not make the difference, and climate change problem will become more and more serious. It looks like world will have tough time fighting against the dominant fossil fuels, especially now with low oil prices, and current financial crisis. Green future might not be as green as we hope it would be.

China's emissions could more than double in two decades

China's greenhouse emissions are not slowing down, and according to the latest analysis China has even overtaken US as the world's leading greenhouse emitter. But what is even worrying is the new report issued by Chinese Academy of Sciences which states that China's greenhouse gas pollution could more than double in two decades.

Though China's government is (seemingly) working hard to find new energetic solutions that wouldn't mean current dependence on coal, and other fossil fuels, this is very unlikely to happen in years to come, because sudden turn to renewable energy sector would completely slow down China's economic boom, and economy is way ahead of ecology, not only in China but in other countries too.

But China and US are not only ones responsible for increase in greenhouse gases, there are other major emitters too, and developing countries are also becoming major threat as they work hard to achieve sudden economic success by focusing on the cheapest energy source - coal. However this cheap energetic solution has devastating effect on environment as coal is one of the "dirtiest" fuel responsible for both global warming and air pollution.

In order to decrease ratio of coal and other fossil fuels in total energy sector countries would have to invest billions of dollars into renewable energy sector, not only their but especially in the ones of developing countries that because of limited funds are only looking for cheap alternatives. All is connected on global level and burning coal in China has the same negative effect as burning coal in Kenya, of course countries like China and US do this more often than developing countries.

And the result of all of this? More impact to global warming and more ecological problems in years to come. And Kyoto protocol? Nothing but some letters written on the paper.

China - Carbon emissions worse than expected

China carbon dioxide emissions are growing on much higher level than expected and this is very bad news in fight against global warming since carbon dioxide is harmful greenhouse gas, mainly responsible for global warming.

According to new analysis by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, and UC San Diego, China annual increase in CO₂ emissions won't be already high 2.5 to 5 percent as first predicted for period between 2004 and 2010, but huge 11 percent as by the year 2010 there will be gigantic increase of 600 million metric tons of carbon emissions in China over the country's levels in 2000.

With such high levels of carbon dioxide emissions there won't be much use of famous (but only on paper) Kyoto protocol since Kyoto protocol's main task was reduction of greenhouse gases emissions into atmosphere. As we all know China is experiencing rapid economic growth and China's dominant use of coal is increasing CO2 emissions growth which are already too high.

China has some plans that should involve significant use of renewable energy sources (mainly hydropower), but even if these projects would be successful, this will still mean dominant use of coal for at least next couple of years.

In order to have decent chance in fight against global warming it's vitally important to cut down C02 emissions and stabilize amount of Co2 in atmosphere. More Co2 emissions means more greenhouse gases and this would make global warming problem impossible to solve. China, USA and other countries that lead the way in CO2 emissions should be making more efforts to reduce fossil fuels use and to put much more emphasis on renewable energy sector that still trails behind coal and other ecologically unacceptable fossil fuels.

Global warming problem needs global action to be solved and big countries like China, USA, India and some others should put more efforts to create joined action that would stop increase of CO2 emissions and give us hope that we are indeed doing something to save our planet and ourselves from global warming and climate change that will become much worse as time goes bye. China is perhaps the biggest problem at this moment, but definitely not the only one.