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China crackdown stops illegal production of ozone-destroying chemicals.

August 22, 2021 CEN_com 0

Two recent research reports published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature confirm that atmospheric concentrations of the ozone-depleting chemical CFC-11 had once again dropped significantly. By late 2019, levels were falling by about 1% a year — the fastest on record, according to the reports — showing that the world was back on track to repairing the damage to the Earth’s ozone layer by mid-century. China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environmental Protection has […]

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Scientists confirm the 1987 global ban on ozone depleting chemicals saved the planet

August 22, 2021 CEN_com 0

And prevented a 50% rise in Greenhouse Gas levels If it weren’t for a global ban of ozone-destroying chemicals in the late 1980s, the ravages of climate change would have become far worse by the 2040s than is currently projected, according to a recent study published in the journal Nature. Fortunately, because of international action under the Montreal Protocol this isn’t what happened. But if CFCs had continued to rise, the […]

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Is Natural Selection culling far right Americans?

August 22, 2021 CEN_com 0

Large numbers anti-science rednecks choose death, serious long-term illness, and for males, impotence from Covid. Ironically, this could be seen as reinforcing the veracity of Darwinian natural selection. The death rate from COVID-19 in the U.S. is rising. The seven-day average of new cases has increased by nearly 70% to almost 30,000 per day; hospitalizations are up 36%. And deaths from the virus have risen steadily in recent days, reversing […]

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TWICE BANNED BY FACEBOOK, 21 SILK RD HAS MOVED TO ITS NEW HOME ON VK. COM

August 21, 2021 CEN_com 0

The 21SilkRd group on Facebook was launched in 2016 with a twofold aim. One was to cover the biggest, most important development project in history: the China-inspired Belt & Road Initiative to link the EurAsian landmass. The second was to rebut the false and mistaken narratives about China that routinely flood the Western media. It aimed to provide authentically Chinese perspectives on key issues relating to China — in English. […]

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The Third Pole – China’s melting glacier

August 20, 2021 CEN_com 0

The Third Pole is a region in Central Asia with the world’s third-largest store of ice after Antarctica and Greenland that is roughly the size of the US states of Texas and New Mexico combined. Third Pole glaciers are one of the world’s largest freshwater sources, and vital to billions of people from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Asia’s 10 largest rivers, including the Yangtze, Yellow, Mekong and Ganges, are fed by […]

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First-ever rain recorded on the summit of Greenland’s ice sheet

August 20, 2021 CEN_com 0

It has just rained at the summit of Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time in recorded history, in yet another worrying milestone in our ecological unravelling. Like much of the Northern Hemisphere, Greenland’s been experiencing a massive heatwave with temperatures at the glacier’s summit rising above freezing for the third time in less than a decade. On 14 August 2021, at a place normally far too frigid for water to fall as a […]

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21 Silk Rd 2.0 group shut down again by Facebook oligarchs

August 20, 2021 CEN_com 0

Our sister group 21 Silk Rd 2.0 has been closed down by the US regime’s oligarchs at Facebook. The Facebook Gestapo, on the behest of the “Democratic” wing of the US regime, is intensifying attacks on anti-imperialist and pro-China groups like ours (including suspending Admins etc). WE ENCOURAGE ALL MEMBERS OF OUR GROUP TO KEEP IN MIND THAT WE ALSO HAVE A WEBSITE – https://china-environment-news.com 21 Silk Rd is also […]

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West’s cumulative emissions of CO2 are 5 times those of China

August 20, 2021 CEN_com 0

A fact’s a fact … Cumulative CO2 emissions by Western countries are 5 times those of China China’s cumulative CO2 emissions = 220 billion tonnes (13% of world total cumulative emissions) West’s cumulative CO2 emissions = 1148 billion tonnes (70% of world total cumulative emissions) United States cumulative CO2 emissions = 400 billion tonnes (25% of world total cumulative emissions) US contribution to cumulative CO2 emissions is more than any other country […]

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The West produces double the CO2 of China per capita

August 20, 2021 CEN_com 0

A fact’s a fact … The West per capita produces double the CO2 of China Each Chinese citizen produces 6.86 tonnes of CO2 per year. Each citizen in the Western industrialized countries produces 12.1 tonnes per year on average. Canada, USA, & Australia are the worst at 15.59 t; 16.16 t; 16.88 t each ** The West includes: USA, European Union, Non-EU Europe, United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Canada, and Australia.

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China, Russia guide new Afghan government’s diplomacy

August 19, 2021 CEN_com 0

Beijing and Moscow are working to rehabilitate the Taliban and smooth international acceptance of the new Afghan Government By PEPE ESCOBAR, August 19, 2021 The first Taliban press conference after last weekend’s Saigon moment geopolitical earthquake, conducted by spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, was in itself a game-changer.   The contrast could not be starker with those rambling pressers at the Taliban embassy in Islamabad after 9/11 and before the start of the American bombing […]