The City of London’s trusted scribbler, the Financial Times, attacks China, in an Aug. 13 article titled “China Puts Growth Ahead of Climate with Surge in Coal-Powered Steel Mills.” The tone of the article is, “dammit, didn’t China read the IPCC report? There’s not supposed to be growth.” [https://www.ft.com/content/c4c79efb-9a4e-4f22-a75a-6b3ea3161bf1]
The article complains, “China’s expansion of coal-powered steel mills accelerated sharply in the first half of 2021, exposing the government’s reluctance to sacrifice industry-fuelled growth to achieve its climate goals.” The Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air found, reports FT, that China announced “18 steelmaking blast furnaces and 43 coal-fired power plants … in the first half of this year.” The FT gasps over the level of CO2 emissions these plants will allegedly produce (and the growth these plants will fuel).
