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To: Brumar89 who wrote (915112)	1/17/2016 4:19:45 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576855

China is going through extraordinary efforts to reduce air pollution in general, not just CO2..... those new coal plants will be the cleanest ever built.......until they too can be shut down....

To: Brumar89 who wrote (915112)	1/17/2016 4:22:31 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576855

"new coal plants being built all over Asia will burn something. " Half of the coal that went to the 5 or 6 old, inefficient plants they replaced. The other half stays in the ground. You'd know that if you looked at the amount of coal we are burning, which you never do. Global Coal Consumption Heads for Biggest Decline in History Ewa Krukowska Ewa_Bxl November 8, 2015 — 3:01 PM PST Updated on November 9, 2015 — 3:01 AM PST Global coal use fell up to 4.6% this year through September Decline driven by China's efforts to fight air pollution bloomberg.com We Might Have Finally Seen Peak CoalBY JOE ROMM JAN 14, 2016 9:14 AM Chinese coal use peaked back in 2013, as Climate Progress first reported in May. Since China was responsible for some 80 percent of the growth in global demand since 2000 — and since the United States and most of the industrialized world have also started cutting coal use — the key remaining question for the dirtiest fossil fuel was, “Will a handful of developing countries, particularly India, see enough growth in coal consumption to overcome that drop?” Goldman Sachs, among others, says the answer is no. “Peak coal is coming sooner than expected,” Goldman told clients in a September research note. Goldman projects global demand for coal used in electricity generation will drop from a peak of 6.15 billion metric tons in 2013 to 5.98 billion in 2019 (the end of its forecast range). thinkprogress.org