From: AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Filter-Free Fridays for Friends - Episode #4,928 - China Rapidly Building Coal Plants Will Result In A Growth In Fossil Fuels Use
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 06:28:01 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
On Tue, 9 Sep 2025 23:37:23 -0600, Gronk says...
> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-09/china-s-green-push-may-cut-global-fossil-use-by-2030-says-ember
>
> https://archive.ph/0ZAHs
>
> The stage may be set for the world?s use of fossil
> fuels to begin dropping in about five years time,
Doubtful.
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China Is Building Coal-Fired Power Plants At An Alarming Rate
https://insights.taylorduma.com/post/102 - Iw50/china-is-building-coal-fired-power-plants-at-an-alarming-rate
Currently, China has six times more coal-fired power plants under construction than the rest of the World combined. Such rapid
growth, prompted a research analyst at the Global Energy Monitor, - Flora Champenois - to comment " [e]verybody else is moving away
from coal and China seems to be stepping on the gas".
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China Builds More New Coal Plants Than Rest Of The World : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-six-times-more-new-coal-plants-than-other-countries-report-fin
Mar 2, 2023 - China permitted the equivalent of two new coal plants a week last year according to a new report. The country is also
rapidly expanding its renewable energy.
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China's Construction Of New Coal-Power Plants 'Reached 10-Year High' In ...
https://www.carbonbrief.org/chinas-construction-of-new-coal-power-plants-reached-10-year-high-in-2024/
Feb 13, 2025 - A "resurgence" in construction of new coal-fired power plants in China is "undermining the country's clean-energy
progress", says a new joint report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and Global Energy Monitor (GEM). The
country began building 94.5 gigawatts (GW) of ...
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Guest Post: Why China Is Still Building New Coal - Carbon Brief
https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-why-china-is-still-building-new-coal-and-when-it-might-stop/
Aug 12, 2025 - Four common talking points surrounding China's ongoing coal-power expansion and how and why the current wave of new
projects might end.
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China Keeps Building Mega Coal Projects | CNN Business
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/business/china-coal-plants-highest-level-hnk-intl
Feb 14, 2025 - China's power industry began construction on nearly 100 gigawatts of new coal plant capacity last year, the most in
nearly a decade, a report from two clean-energy groups said Thursday.
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China's Construction Of Coal-Fired Power Plants Reaches Highest In A Decade
https://www.ft.com/content/4658e336-930f-49db-abc9-0036ee0ea777
Feb 14, 2025 - China's coal plant construction surged last year to the highest level in almost a decade, conflicting with President
Xi Jinping's promise that carbon emissions would peak before 2030 ...
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China Boosting Coal Capacity At Record High - Report - DW
https://www.dw.com/en/china-boosting-coal-capacity-at-record-high-report/a-73753189
Aug 25, 2025 - China has expanded the capacity of coal-fired plants more in the first half of 2025 than at any time in the past
nine years. The spike comes despite massive renewable capacity.
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Coal Is Losing Ground But Not Letting Go: Structural Inertia And The ...
https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/chinas-coal-is-losing-ground-but-not-letting-go/
Aug 25, 2025 - Coal is losing ground but not letting go: Structural inertia and the struggle to shift coal's role in China's power
system The Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and Global Energy Monitor (GEM) have released their H1 2025 biannual
review of China's coal projects, which finds that coal power additions are continuing to grow.
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Fact Check: False Claim That China Built More Than 600 New Coal Plants
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/11/22/fact-check-false-claim-china-built-more-than-600-new-coal-
plants/8295906001/
Nov 22, 2022 - The claim: China built 648 new coal power plants As world leaders conclude a landmark climate change summit,
misinformation about greenhouse gas emissions is spreading on social media.
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China Is Still Building An Insane Number Of New Coal Plants
https://www.wired.com/story/china-is-still-building-an-insane-number-of-new-coal-plants/
Coal is an abundant natural resource in China, so the government adopted several energy policies to encourage the construction of
coal plants.
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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition
All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.
"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike
of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."
Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into
three distinct phases or stages:
"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm,
as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."
"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting
solely of hyperbole."
"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."
The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything
Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something
nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received
positively by TDSers.
The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a
punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.
Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles
Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in
reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."