{"id":363210,"date":"2025-01-24T14:44:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T13:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=363210"},"modified":"2025-01-24T14:44:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T13:44:48","slug":"justin-rowlatt-thinks-china-will-save-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=363210","title":{"rendered":"Justin Rowlatt Thinks China Will Save The\u00a0Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t Ian Magness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s amazing how far Justin Rowlatt will go to delude himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He posted this report from Baku during COP29, a long rambling article designed to convince himself that the battle against global warming will not miss a beat, despite Trump\u2019s election win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forget about the US, China will step up and save the day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I seem to recall that the BBC ran similar articles during Trump\u2019s last term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile back in the real world:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is noticeable that US emissions have effectively flatlined, regardless of who was President \u2013 Obama, Trump or Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is only one thing China is interested in when it comes to climate change \u2013 selling solar panels, EVs and batteries to the rest of the world stupid enough to buy them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s amazing how far Justin Rowlatt will go to delude himself.
\nHe posted this report from Baku during COP29, a long rambling article designed to convince himself that the battle against global warming will not miss a beat, despite Trump\u2019s election win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":363211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818389,691818341,691818056,691820730],"class_list":["post-363210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bbc","tag-china","tag-climate-change","tag-justin-rowlatt","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0ab4aad693681545aaa62a9da6c9f1f02.jpeg?fit=1241%2C828&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1wue","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":344491,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=344491","url_meta":{"origin":363210,"position":0},"title":"Climate change is turbo-charging Somalia\u2019s problems \u2013 Justin\u00a0Rowlatt","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/25\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"By contrast, Rowlatt\u2019s drought in 2022 was not unusually severe at all. 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