Carbon emissions

China’s Coal, US CO2 Stoke Global Warming

April 5, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! Carbon emissions, China, Clean Energy, climate crisis, Coal, United States

Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels and industry totaled 38.11 billion metric tons (GtCO₂) in 2025, hitting a record high, versus 25.51 GtCO2 in 2000. Moreover, the rate of global warming more than doubled for the first time in human history, in only one decade. Scientists are stunned: The Rate of Global Warming has Accelerated More in the Past Decade Than Ever Before, LiveScience, d/d March 7, 2026. According to NASA, 97% of publishing scientists in the world agree that excessive CO2 emissions cause excessive global warming as well as aberrant climate change.

Activists Are Racking Up Wins Against A False Climate Solution

February 19, 2026 Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! Biomass, Carbon emissions, climate crisis, False Solutions

Last June, California climate and environmental justice groups celebrated a victory a long time in the making. After an opposition campaign that built alliances across movements, turned out supporters to hearings and generated 50,000 public comments, a company gave up plans that threatened to wreak havoc on the state’s forests. The corporation behind the defeated project, Golden State Natural Resources, or GSNR, proposed building two mills in Northern California’s Tuolumne and Lassen Counties to turn wood from nearby forests into pellets to be burned for fuel.

The Winter Olympics In Trouble?

February 15, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Resist! Athletes, Carbon emissions, climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Olympics

One Hundred Percent (100%) of Olympians believe excessive levels of climate change are real and a serious threat to ecosystems that support life. That is an intentional lie, but it may very well be true. Nobody experiences the upheaval of climate change like Olympians. “I couldn’t watch it happen and not say anything about it.” (Bea Kim, snowboarder Olympian from California, Can the Winter Olympics be Saved? Talking Climate, Feb. 11, 2026) Bea is a member of POW (Protect Our Winters Now) founded by Jeremy Jones, a U.S. snowboarder. A POW letter signed by over 200 ski professionals addressed the International Ski and Snowboard Federation’s failure to support climate polices.

EPA Just Used The Clean Air Act To Prop Up Coal Power

February 11, 2026 Joe Fassler, DeSmog. Educate! Carbon emissions, climate crisis, Coal, EPA, Trump Administration

The Trump administration just employed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Clean Air Act to discourage coal plant closures in Colorado — repurposing measures initially intended to safeguard public health and prevent pollution to reboot the dirtiest, deadliest fossil fuel. Michael Hiatt, deputy managing attorney at the environmental legal nonprofit Earthjustice, told DeSmog that the EPA’s action was not what the Clean Air Act intended. “In our view, it’s plainly illegal,” he said. Furthermore, Hiatt said the EPA’s move may have implications beyond Colorado, indicating that the agency could take similar actions that affect coal and gas plants elsewhere.

Ocean Heat Goes Ballistic

February 1, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! Carbon emissions, climate crisis, Environment, Ocean warming

Climate science, over the past few decades, especially since the turn of the new century, has increasingly identified trouble spots with ecosystems that support life on Earth. These crucial ecosystems are stressed. But not many of the scientific reports of the past couple of decades compares to a bone-chilling new study of massive ocean heat accumulation in the year 2025, published January 14th, 2026, ScienceDaily: The Ocean Absorbed a Stunning Amount of Heat in 2025. Sources: Institute of Atmospheric Physics and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are Leading The US And EU Into Industrial Decline

January 15, 2026 David Goeßmann, Truthout. Educate! Carbon emissions, climate crisis, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Subsidies

Since Donald Trump took office, the U.S. government has been more aggressively boosting fossil fuels to exert geopolitical dominance. President Donald Trump stated unequivocally that the military assault on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife are aimed at gaining control of the country’s oil reserves. Meanwhile, oil company shares are soaring, a dividend on the investments of “Big Oil,” the major donor to Trump’s election campaign. It is also no coincidence that Nigeria (which the U.S. bombed over Christmas) and Iran and Greenland, which Trump repeatedly threatens, are oil-rich regions, too.

More Than 300 Lobbyists For Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30

November 18, 2025 Rachel Sherrington and Nina Lakhani, DeSmog. Educate! Big Ag, Brazil, Carbon emissions, climate crisis, COP30, pollution

More than 300 lobbyists for food and farming organisations have participated at this year’s UN climate talks, known as COP30, taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where agribusiness is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found. The number of lobbyists representing the interests of industrial cattle farming, commodity grains and pesticides is up 14 percent over last year’s summit in Baku — and is larger than the delegation of the world’s 10th largest economy, Canada, which brought 220 delegates to COP30 in Belém, according to the joint investigation between DeSmog and the Guardian.

New Documentary Bridges Militarism And The Climate Crisis

October 27, 2025 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Featured Campaign, Podcast - Clearing The FOG Carbon emissions, climate crisis, Environmental Destruction, US military

The US military is the greatest threat to the planet, not just for the violence that it commits but also for its carbon emissions and environmental destruction. Clearing the FOG speaks with Abby Martin about her new documentary, Earth's Greatest Enemy, which exposes the harm caused by the military. Martin and her spouse, Mike Prysner, traveled around the world to cover the damage caused by the military, the failure to hold the US military accountable, and the people resisting US foreign military bases. Martin also discusses the military's greenwashing efforts. This program includes a portion of a previous interview with Mike Prysner recorded at the beginning of this project.

Emissions From Global Meat And Dairy Companies Rival Fossil Fuels

October 20, 2025 Friends of the Earth. Educate! Carbon emissions, climate crisis, Dairy, Food and Agriculture, greenhouse gases, Meat Industry

The world’s major meat and dairy companies are generating combined greenhouse gas emissions on par with some of the biggest fossil fuel producers, according to new estimates from environmental and food policy experts issued ahead of the COP30 climate talks in Belém, Brazil. More than half of the estimated emissions stem from methane, a powerful but short-lived gas that scientists warn must be sharply reduced in this decade to keep global warming within 1.5°C. The analysis, Roasting the Planet: Big Meat and Dairy’s Big Emissions, was published today by Foodrise, Friends of the Earth U.S., Greenpeace Nordic, and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

Carbon Dioxide Levels Rose Record Amount In 2024

October 17, 2025 Sharon Zhang, Truthout. Educate! Carbon emissions, climate crisis, COP30, Environment, Feedback Loops

The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose by the largest amount ever recorded in 2024, the UN has reported, as researchers warn of the dangers of feedback loops that are pushing the climate crisis to new heights and many global powers do nothing to mitigate emissions. According to the latest bulletin by the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the global average concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased by 3.5 parts per million between 2023 and 2024. This is the highest single-year increase since modern records began in 1957.

Fundamental Change In The Climate: ‘The World Is Coming Apart Before Our Eyes’

September 9, 2025 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Featured Campaign, Podcast - Clearing The FOG Carbon emissions, climate crisis, Extreme weather, Global heating, Oceans, Sea level rise

The situation with respect to the climate crisis is developing rapidly. Each new study seems to bring worse news. In addition, the media is rife with climate denial and misinformation. To help us understand what is happening on this planet, Clearing the FOG speaks with environmental journalist Robert Hunziker. Hunziker follows climate studies published in scientific journals and translates them into a language the average person can understand. He reports that top scientists are saying there has been a fundamental shift in the climate. Rainforests and tundras are now spewing carbon instead of sequestering it, and the oceans have reached their capacity for storing the planet's heat. Cascading weather events are making areas of the world uninhabitable.

Ireland Shuts Down Last Coal Plant Ahead Of Schedule

June 25, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Educate! Carbon emissions, Coal, Energy, Ireland, Renewable Energy

Ireland has become the sixth European country to end its use of coal with its scheduled shut-down of the Moneypoint coal-fired power plant six months earlier than originally planned. The 915 megawatt station will continue to operate in an oil-based backup capacity under emergency instruction until 2029, reported The Irish Examiner. “This is the end of coal in Ireland and the start of a cleaner energy future,” said Paddy Hayes, ESB’s chief executive officer, in the statement, as Bloomberg reported. Developed in the 1980s, Moneypoint is one of the largest energy stations in Ireland. As renewables make up an increasing share of the world’s power generation, coal is becoming obsolete as a fuel source.

xAI Data Center Emits Plumes Of Pollution

June 14, 2025 Nick Cunningham, DeSmog. Educate! Air Pollution, Big Data, Carbon emissions, Gas, Tennessee

A massive data center at xAI’s controversial site in Memphis, Tennessee is emitting huge plumes of pollution, according to footage recorded by an environmental watchdog group. xAI quickly built an enormous data center and supercomputer at an empty factory site in Memphis last year, aimed at providing computational power for xAI’s chatbot, called Grok. Having difficulty securing enough grid power to fuel the energy-hungry data center, xAI brought in 35 portable gas turbines, and assembled them without environmental permits or pollution controls. A new video, recorded by Oil Field Witness, an environmental group, shows vast plumes of pollution coming from those gas turbines.

China’s Solar And Wind Capacity Surpasses Mostly Coal-Based Energy

April 26, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Create! Carbon emissions, China, climate crisis, Renewable Energy

China’s National Energy Administration has announced that the country’s solar and wind energy capacity has exceeded that of thermal energy — which is mostly coal-powered — for the first time. The largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, China has pledged to achieve peak carbon emissions by the end of the decade and become carbon neutral by 2060, reported AFP. “In the first quarter of 2025, China’s newly installed wind and photovoltaic power capacity totalled 74.33 million kilowatts, bringing the cumulative installed capacity to 1.482 billion kilowatts,” the country’s energy body said.

From Farms To Data Centers: The Gas Industry’s Newest Sales Pitch

April 21, 2025 Edward Donnelly, DeSmog. Resist! Carbon emissions, Data Center, Gas Industry, Virginia

“In all my days here, this is the biggest black eye that Pittsylvania County has experienced,” says Amanda Sink Wydner, leader of the local opposition to plans for a massive new power plant and data center complex in Chatham, a small town in southern Virginia. On April 15, the county government will vote on whether to rezone hundreds acres of farmland to heavy industrial use, which would allow Balico LLC, a natural gas power developer, to proceed with the project. As planned, it would have the biggest power demand of any data center complex in the world, according to rankings from Data Center Magazine.

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