Your periodic reminder that the Paris Agreement was, and is, a China First treaty.
Oil Price (12/18/25) article: "Bloomberg Opinion columnist and chief energy correspondent Javier Blas posted a chart on X from the International Energy Agency's new global coal report showing that coal demand jumped to an all-time high this year, despite years of efforts by the green-industrial complex to end its very existence. 'Global coal demand rose to an all-time high in 2025, up 0.5% y-on-y to 8,845 million tons (also, @IEA revised up 2024),' Blas wrote on X, adding, 'Now, IEA says 2025 will mark a peak, with consumption dropping over the next 5 years. Time will tell, but previous peak forecasts were off.' Years of climate alarmists' demonization of coal have seemingly failed. In fact, coal remains structurally embedded in power systems and heavy industry, especially in Asia, even as renewables expand....China consumes more coal than the rest of the world combined and fully determines global trends....What may infuriate climate alarmists is that coal is not disappearing this decade and will continue to serve as a bridge in a world of surging power demand from AI data centers and other electrification trends until sufficient nuclear power generation comes online, which is a 2030s story."
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"Offshore wells produced 700 billion cubic feet of natural gas last year, accounting for two percent of the nation’s supply. Because natural gas generates roughly 40 percent of America’s electricity, increasing offshore production would help meet the surging power demand from data center buildouts, manufacturing, and electrification trends."
– Austin Gae,
The Heritage Foundation
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