So what. We knew that and it is now as good as it gets.
Canada has discovered massive geological hydrogen which will transform all forms of metalurgy globally.
And closed loop geothermal is now happening as well.
The global energy equation is visibly shifting away from all forms of carbon based fuels. And no one i paying any attention to athmospheric pressure stacks that push a two hundred ton frictionless flywheel while also tapping the coriolus effect.
I can do that. power output expnads exponentially against system size. Think the biggest cooling tower you have ever seen.
Now China produces more coal than the rest of the world combined
By Jo Nova
https://joannenova.com.au/2026/11/now-china-produces-more-coal-than-the-rest-of-the-world-combined/
There’s one place on Earth where carbon emissions are irrelevant
This is the Hippopotamus hiding in the climate-kitchen. The whole world keeps walking past, apoplectic about how big the mice under the sink are. Trillions of dollars are spent tracking the mice, giving them Ozempic to slim them down, and complaining about the smell, but nobody asks the hippo to shift.
China mined 4.66 billion tonnes of coal in 2025, compared with 4.39 billion tonnes for the entire rest of the world. That’s 51.5% of global coal production.
It’s just one country. Yet they mine more coal than everyone else combined.
We can see that the entire industrial revolution, and the rise and fall of coal production in Britain is but a small blip. Two centuries of British industrial history have been reduced to a bump at the bottom of the graph. The surge that transformed the world with factories, railways, steamships and iron foundries spawned a giant. China became the coal furnace of the world.
And because China is also importing coal, its consumption is an even larger proportion, at nearly 5 billion tones, it now consumes 56% of global coal use.
Yet this week, thousands of people flew in fossil fueled jet planes to Turkey to sit in rooms warmed with fossil fuels and talk about the climate mice that threaten the world.
Where is the Boycott, Divest and Sanction Coal in China movement at COP31? I must have missed the marches.
Life on Earth is ending but no one cares enough to start an action group to deal with the biggest cause of the catastrophe. Where are the little stickers on items warning of big Chinese coal production embedded in these products.
The Guardian — of course, cuts to the point: Just in case, its readers might not be confused enough.
Almost all the growth in global coal use since the late 1980s has come from China
As a curious corollary it’s now clear China caused it all — the whole Man-made climate catastrophe. The rest of the world has barely changed its coal consumption in 40 years.
OK, so China became the factory of the world, and the world still wants cheap things more than it wants climate-penance. Shh!
OWID
We’re all going to die and the oceans will boil, but no wants to say “no thanks” to the cheaper Chinese goods made with all that coal. That’s how much we care about climate change. Where is the petition for Australian fridges made with solar powered electricity? Where are the Greens?
For whatever it’s worth this is the list of the top ten coal producing countries, so the climate activists can send some protestors to the right places. Perhaps they could write President Xi a strong letter?
World’s ten largest coal producers, 2025
Data from Energy Institute
Country Coal production (million tonnes)
China 4,663.0
India 1,084.2
Indonesia 790.0
United States 483.6
Australia 431.4
Russia 429.2
South Africa 235.5
Kazakhstan 120.5
Mongolia 105.5
Germany 86.4
World total 9,053
The West never really gave up coal. It just gave China the job of burning it.
POST NOTE: Regarding the graph at the top of the page. For the first two hundred years Britain would have been the largest coal miner in the world. Poignantly, for the British Empire, production peaked in 1913, on the eve of World War I. We also see history written into the ups and downs of the US production, with the depression clearly evident in the 1930s. The slowdown in the 1950s was due to the rise of oil, and the slowdown of the last twenty years due to the rise of shale gas. A lot of bumps in between were apparently due to strikes.
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