By Paul Homewood
In his above interview with the BBC, Prof Ian Boyd, DEFRA’s outgoing Chief Scientist claimed that the Chinese government was very worried about the climate and was taking it very seriously.
This is a very common self delusion amongst Boyd and his ilk. And self delusion is exactly what it is.
There are a couple of factoids that they rely on to convince themselves and each other.
Firstly, absolute capacity and generation numbers. They point to the fact, for instance, that China’s wind power capacity is 184 GW, compared to 22 GW in the UK. But’ of course, this ignores the fact that China is a much bigger country, and that it’s electricity generation is 21 times that of the UK’s.
Secondly, they like to quote how quickly renewable energy is expanding in China. Wind power, for example, grew by 20% last year. Yet 20% of very little is still very little.
So, a few facts that summarise the real situation:
1) In the UK last year, renewable energy (excl hydro) supplied 32% of our electricity. In China the figure was 9%.
2) Although wind and solar power generation grew by 121 TWh in China last year, thermal power (almost wholly coal) expanded by 324 TWh:
https://chinaenergyportal.org/en/2018-electricity-other-energy-statistics/
3) Whilst wind and solar capacity increased by 17 and 53 GW respectively last year there, this will only add about 83 TWh annually, because of the inherent inefficiency of renewables.
Thermal power, however, added 44 GW, which on current plant loading should add 193 TWh a year.
https://chinaenergyportal.org/en/2018-electricity-other-energy-statistics/
4) Since 2010, wind and solar power’s share of China’s electricity generation has risen from 1.1% to 7.6%. At this rate, it will still only account for 17.4% by 2030.
Here in the UK, it is already running at 21%.
5) As far as all primary energy consumption is concerned, renewable energy in China still only accounts for a tiny 4.4%.
6) The proof of the pudding of course lies with emissions of carbon dioxide themselves.
There, the message is abundantly clear. While Britain’s have been gradually declining, China’s continue to grow, in the last two years alone by 3.3%.
BP Energy Review
Ian Boyd must surely be aware of all of these numbers. So why does he persist in shutting them out of his mind?
Has he been beguiled by what Xi and other Chinese leaders have been saying? He must be an idiot if he has.
If there is one thing we should all know by now, you cannot trust anything the Chinese Communist Party says. They will act in their own interest alone, and nothing else.
It is truly sad, and a little frightening, that any scientist should ignore the facts in such a way, and believe what politicians tell him instead.
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August 31, 2019 at 05:30AM
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