Manmade Global Warming - New Extremes, page-9122

an analysis of China's rapid transition to renewable power sources is running now on the ABC News app and by any measure makes fascinating reading.

all the more so if you set the momentum in this extraordinary transition against the views expressed on HC climate threads by those who don't or can't even see the need to decarbonize power generation.

The views of these deniers become by comparison more extreme daily, and they've helped stymie Australia's energy policy development for getting onto two decades.

and are still doing so with Liberal leader Dutton's nuclear thought bubble and misnamed National's so-called leader Littleproud's threat to void some future renewables contracts, potentially even raising sovereign risk issues.

the start of the ABC News app piece follows.

"While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed rollout of solar and wind power, China is going all in on renewables.

"New figures show the pace of its clean energy transition is roughly the equivalent of installing five large-scale nuclear power plants worth of renewables every week.

"A report by Sydney-based think tank Climate Energy Finance (CEF) said China was installing renewables so rapidly it would meet its end-of-2030 target by the end of this month — or 6.5 years early. It's installing at least 10 gigawatts of wind and solar generation capacity every fortnight.

"By comparison, experts have said the Coalition's plan to build seven nuclear power plants would add fewer than 10GW of generation capacity to the grid some time after 2035.

"Energy experts are looking to China, the world's largest emitter, once seen as a climate villain, for lessons on how to go green, fast."