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But he still brags about his historic coal agreement with China last November. China agreed that by 2030 they would begin work on capping their increases in emissions , as long as we cut our coal usage by 26% to 28% by 2025.
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China’s Growing Coal Use Is World’s Growing Problem
Coal, the most carbon-intensive of the fossil fuels, accounts for 70 percent of energy used in China today and is responsible for about three quarters of electricity generation.
In just 5 years, from 2005 through 2009, China added the equivalent of the entire U.S. fleet of coal-fired power plants, or 510 new 600-megawatt coal plants.
From 2010 through 2013, it added half the coal generation of the entire U.S. again.
At the peak, from 2005 through 2011, China added roughly two 600-megawatt coal plants a week, for 7 straight years.
And according to U.S. government projections, China will add yet another U.S. worth of coal plants over the next 10 years, or the equivalent of a new 600-megawatt plant every 10 days for 10 years.
China burns more than 4 billion tons of coal each year in power plants, homes, and factories. By comparison, the U.S. burns less than 1 billion, and the entire European Union burns 600 million. China is on track to double annual U.S. emissions by 2017. While projections for the U.S. and Europe are for steady or decreasing coal use in the coming decades, barring major policy shifts, China’s coal use is expected to keep increasing. Economists predict that by 2040, China’s coal power fleet will be 50 percent larger than it is today.
Coal, the most carbon-intensive of the fossil fuels, accounts for 70 percent of energy used in China today and is responsible for about three quarters of electricity generation.
In just 5 years, from 2005 through 2009, China added the equivalent of the entire U.S. fleet of coal-fired power plants, or 510 new 600-megawatt coal plants.
From 2010 through 2013, it added half the coal generation of the entire U.S. again.
At the peak, from 2005 through 2011, China added roughly two 600-megawatt coal plants a week, for 7 straight years.
And according to U.S. government projections, China will add yet another U.S. worth of coal plants over the next 10 years, or the equivalent of a new 600-megawatt plant every 10 days for 10 years.
China burns more than 4 billion tons of coal each year in power plants, homes, and factories. By comparison, the U.S. burns less than 1 billion, and the entire European Union burns 600 million. China is on track to double annual U.S. emissions by 2017. While projections for the U.S. and Europe are for steady or decreasing coal use in the coming decades, barring major policy shifts, China’s coal use is expected to keep increasing. Economists predict that by 2040, China’s coal power fleet will be 50 percent larger than it is today.
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A copy of a Congressional Research Service report obtained by the Free Beacon, which was conducted in response to a request by Sen. Mark Kirk (R., Ill.), has revealed that much of Iran’s defense budget, which may be as high as $30 billion a year (out an overall budget of $300 billion), goes to funding terrorist proxy groups and rebel fighters across the Middle East, including in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, and the Gaza Strip.
The spread of Iranian funds to proxy groups in the Middle East, according to the congressional report is:
Hezbollah: $100 – 200 million
President Assad’s Regime: $3.5 – 15 billion
Shiite Militias in Syria and Iraq: $12 – 26 billion
Houthi Rebels in Yemen: $10 – 20 billion
Hamas: Tens of millions (although currently Hamas officials have been complaining of being abandoned by Iran, following the tightening of the organization’s relations with Saudi Arabia).
Senator Kirk, who opposes the nuclear deal with Iran, told the Free Beacon that this information is a sign that the deal will lead to more terrorism by Iran.
“The Administration is celebrating support from a partisan minority of senators for a nuclear deal that threatens the security of the United States and our allies,” Kirk said. “This deeply flawed agreement will transfer over $100 billion to a regime that US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper calls the ‘foremost state sponsor of terrorism,’ and pave Iran’s path to nuclear weapons.”
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