Climate Letter #799

Is China actually decarbonizing?  According to this story in the NY Times it doesn’t look that way.  After two years of declining coal consumption there are now signs of an upturn that may last for at least several years in spite of good intentions to do otherwise.  Chinese coal burning is the world’s largest single source of CO2 emissions.

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How North America’s grasslands are disappearing.  This important but poorly publicized information is provided thanks to a recent report by World Wildlife Fund.  The amount of land involved via conversion from deep-rooted grassland to cropland is even greater than the losses by deforestation in the Amazon.  The broadly based damage includes the release of millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year plus the decline of an active sink.
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The problem of growing desertification in China.  China has several large deserts that have been expanding at an alarming rate because of a mixture of climate change and various human activities that are detrimental.  This story is mostly about a desert that is overtaking cotton farms as it grows.
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An update on the historic drought in Bolivia.  Water shortages have reportedly intensified in the past week.
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A grand overview of the war against carbon.  This story is adopted from the notes to a speech given by the author of a book on the same subject.  He puts all the components in the context of a real-life drama that has extremely high stakes, with new developments practically every day and an outcome that is not yet predictable.  I could see many parallels with the purpose and content of what I have in mind while researching and writing these Climate Letters.
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If you have an interest in the history of climate science, which started some 200 years ago, this site provides a fine introductory resource with plenty of interesting details added.
Carl

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