But China hasn't done it. 87% of their total energy spend is fossil fuels, and 62% of electricity is from fossil fuels. They are fortunate to have a lot of hydro, 13%, meaning that wind and solar came in at 18%. So fossil fuels make up more than 350% of wind and solar.

Fair point, but NYT is just as bad on some subjects- for instance their coverage of the climate apocalypse or whatever they want to call it this week. It's always a good idea to check if your source has TDS, which is usually funny, M(urdoch)DS which is usually paranoid and funny or I(srael)DS which is disgusting.

"Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales maintains that neutrality remains the site's core policy."

Kinda sorta. The hive mind certainly enforces the policies selectively, and is happy to pile on, making it impossible for edits to stay in the article. They are happy to include non peer reviewed primary source stuff in articles that support the woke POV but will insist that primary sources are deprecated if used as a criticism.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. The idiot-in-chief at the UN is correct, it is, and always was, inevitable that 1.5 will be exceeded, and that was before the AI fad. If the entire world had gone all in on nuclear for baseload and a whole bunch of other things (no airplanes for you, more than half of my CO2 budget is flying), then it might have been possible, but that was never going to happen.

"he testing is assuming people are able to easily charge and can be bothered to do it"

Because that is what the test protocol says t do. If they design a better test (they can very easily) then they'll get more representative answers. It is not dieselgate, primarily, as it is not the manufacturers messing about, it is the EU testing authority has its head up its arse (as usual).

And will the Met Office be measuring this with Class 1 instruments or will they carry on using vast numbers of Class 4 or Class 5 weather stations, and the ones they make up?

Did you fly? Then you are the problem, not the solution.

During the HO the world was warmer than today and the coral reefs were just fine.

Hang on. The cars passed the tests. No laws were broken. This entire case will be about whether defeat devices were used. That will need software engineers (it'l be in the EEC) and reverse engineered code.

Since EEC strategies are adaptive by nature there is no fixed 'state' of emissions for a given rpm and load and ECT (and so on), the thing is retuning itself continually.

I think you are exaggerating the awesome inconvenience of having to put DEF into the tank every 10000 km, and the enormous expense (10-20 bucks) . Do you FUD for money or just because your a fool?

Sure, renewables don't cost much to run. When they are running. A recent report suggests that a 100% renewable grid in Australia would need 3 days of backup to avoid one in 10 year dunkelflautes. The Australian grid averages 24 GW, so 1728 GWh of batteries. That would cost about 75% of Australia's GDP, and would need replacing every 15 years, ie on average a 5% donation of GDP to China every year. Well I guess it's what the young uns want, they'll be paying for it for all of their lives. And of course it will make no measurable difference to CO2 at all.

We don't see $100 USD/kWh in Australia, although admittedly I don't know how much of the build cost is the battery itself - the following is our newest BESS, Liddell.

Australian energy major AGL has seen its 1,000MWh Liddell battery energy storage system (BESS) in New South Wales (NSW) enter AEMO’s Market Management System.

The 500MW/1,000MWh grid-scale battery system registered with AEMO on 30 September and is now ready for commissioning and testing phases. AEMO’s Market Management System is the core IT system that manages the National Electricity Market (NEM) wholesale market.

AGL’s lithium-ion BESS is located on the shores of Lake Liddell, roughly 220km north of the state capital, Sydney, and 120km west of Newcastle. It is located at the site of the former Liddell Power Station, a decommissioned 2,000MW coal-fired power station in the Hunter Valley region of NSW.

AGL Energy previously confirmed that the total construction cost of the Liddell BESS is estimated to be approximately AU$750 million (US$489 million).

China are also building record levels of coal powerplants. https://www.carbonbrief.org/ch...

I don't think you know what word salad means, I gather that's become sort of slang for "I don't like what you are saying". You are right, currently Australian electricity is about 50% coal, the intention (it won't happen) is to get it to 81% renewable by 2030, 90%+ by 2035, and 95%+ by 2050. I'm advocating for nuclear with a sensible amount of wind and solar and gas and storage. It doesn't make the slightest difference what we do in Australia, we could switch the entire country off and China's CO2 output would increase by that much in a couple of years. We really don't matter.

They are, but are still very expensive if you want reliablle power. Best estimate we've got is 1.3 trillion dollars for PV and wind, more for 10000 km of transmission lines, and the aforementioned 2 trillion for batteries. https://www.sciencedirect.com/... for the weather stuff