China still leads the world in emissions, with no end in sight

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http://grist.org/climate-energy/china-still-leads-the-world-in-emissions-with-no-end-in-sight/

People write about China’s growth so much it’s daunting to wring out something new. But — wow — when you see it for the first time in a few years, it still delivers one hell of a punch.

I lived in China for a year before the Beijing’s 2008 Olympics (a kind of development event horizon in China’s history, towards which the whole country hurtled), and I’ve been back regularly enough to marvel at changes firsthand.

But I have never before been as dumbfounded as during a train ride this week from Beijing through a swathe of China’s northeast coal belt. My colleague Jaeah Lee and I were whisked away from the capital on rails that carry sleek new bullet trains (in just two years, China will have completed 11,200 miles of high-speed railway lines, leaving the U.S. limping). We zoom at 186 miles per hour through unabated upheaval.

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1. excellent post

There's a lot of information in that brief video.