I mean, isn't that the goal? If you're accruing wealth but spending it to better the country (building infrastructure, blah blah), why does it matter?
It helps that China's also clamping down on corruption from the politician side.
Dude there's videos online but they're obscenely graphic.
sigh
You want to talk about methane emissions? Let's talk about underreported methane emissions.
As you we'll know, natural gas has been the most significant contributor to the US' emissions reductions in recent years. Natural gas use has skyrocketed, supplanting coal because of its "50% reduction in CO2 emissions." This is true at the consumption point, but what's often forgotten is that methane, CH4, is small and leaky, and methane is a much worse GHG than CO2 (~80x worse over 20 years).
What does that mean? A 1.25% leakage rate for methane over the entire extraction/distribution process would double methane's GHG effect. What's a realistic leakage rate, then? Well...
Stanford estimates 9% leakage over the Permian Basin
The EDF estimates methane leakage to be 3.75x to 8x worse than the EPA estimate of 1.2%
Remember that natural gas makes up the most significant part of the US electricity supply (as well as a significant portion of primary energy for heating and industrial applications). Draw conclusions appropriately.
The US is significantly underreporting it's own methane emissions.
Edit: in case it wasn't clear, natural gas is methane
Lmao a big problem is that a lot of these influencers aren't actually wealthy. They can't actually afford their lifestyles, and the Chinese government has been trying to control "fake Internet personas" for a while.
China views social media as an extension of in-person relationships rather than it's own independent entity.
Economic coercion, like:
the embargo on Cuba?
legislation to raise EV tariffs by 100% and block semiconductor exports?
sanctions on India?
sanctions on Pakistan?
tell me more about this "economic coercion", because it seems like we're talking to an expert in the matter.
First human trial for a treatment strategy passed (notably, we know that placebo treatments for diabetes fail). This more than passes the bar to justify further large-scale human trials and, clinically, is a very strong indicator of success.
What, is it not a cure until it's available to the public?
Ooo "mysterious"
Who the fuck cares? Every major space power does weird shit in space.
Is this supposed to be a response to the propaganda leaflets that got dropped on North Korea?
I wasn't aware that had happened recently, but I know it was a thing in the past.
No, there's many many Hui Arabic-style mosques.
Maybe The Guardian doesn't know about them and doesn't consider them "major", but that sounds like The Guardian's problem.
Chinese scientists achieve diabetes cure through innovative cell therapy, detailed in Cell Discovery. Patient, treated in July 2021, no longer requires insulin after eleven weeks, and is now medication-free for 33 months. The breakthrough, praised by Timothy Kieffer, signifies a major advancement in...
Chinese scientists achieve diabetes cure through innovative cell therapy, detailed in Cell Discovery. Patient, treated in July 2021, no longer requires insulin after eleven weeks, and is now medication-free for 33 months. The breakthrough, praised by Timothy Kieffer, signifies a major advancement in...
It's motherfucking happening
Ahead of schedule
With accelerating velocity
It's fucking happening AHHHH
China’s CO2 emissions fell by 3% in March 2024, ending a 14-month surge that began when the economy reopened after the nation’s “zero-Covid”
The old Chinese style building was there until the end of the Qing Dynasty or whatever
China's property glut is being eaten up by the rural-urban migration. It's not a static demand market.
There's domes everywhere, not really sure what The Guardian is talking about
The changes seek to expand lawmakers’ investigative abilities to summon people, including the President, to answer their questions. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Long considered one of the best medical schools in the world, the University of California, Los Angeles's David Geffen School of Medicine receives as many as 14,000 applications a year. Of those, it accepted just 173 students in the 2023 admissions cycle, a record-low acceptance rate of 1.3 percent....
Working for five years as a producer at the public broadcaster, I witnessed the double standards and discrimination in its coverage of Palestine—and experienced directly how CBC disciplines those who speak out
Officials are poised to begin ferrying badly needed humanitarian aid into the enclave besieged over seven months of intense fighting in the Israel-Hamas war.
Zoraya ter Beek, who has chronic depression, anxiety, trauma and unspecified personality disorder, expected to end her life soon
India has signed a 10-year-deal to develop the strategically important Chabahar port in Iran.
Rosgeo’s Alexander Karpinsky vessel said to have conducted surveys in the region.
You mean...
Tesla? No, sorry, must have been Ford/GM.
Oh, my bad, Intel.
TSMC?
No? Oh. So it's only other governments subsidizing domestic businesses that's bad.
Montreal?
I think the OP has a point here: most of North America is distinctly not urban, distinctly not pedestrianized, and really spread apart. EVs take a substantial range hit in the cold, which might not be a problem in the Montreal area but is a bit more of an issue when living in bumfuck, Wisconsin.
Mexico City, Mexico -- Mexico has received its first direct flight from China since the beginning of the pandemic four years ago.
Shoigu is being replaced by Belousov, an economist. Shoigu was planning to retire before the invasion of Ukraine anyway, but this reflects either a dire need for an economics expert or a lack of need for someone with conflict experience.
Given Russia's recent successes in the Kharkov region, it's looking like Putin has already assumed that victory is inevitable and is planning for how to manage the post-war economy given the rapid expansion of Russia's military-industrial complex over the course of the Ukraine conflict.
That, or Putin is unhappy with Shoigu's progress... But again, looking at recent successes in the Kharkov region I highly doubt that.
President proposes Andrei Belousov as defence minister with Sergei Shoigu to become secretary of Security Council.
A sunspot so big it rivals the gigantic sunspot responsible for the Carrington Event in 1859 has unleashed another X-class solar flare, triggering radio blackouts on Earth.
The network of fast chargers promised by the Biden administration has had a painfully slow rollout.
