China is still the coal furnace of the world. By Joanne Nova.
This is the latest graph of coal plants in operation in the world today.
Luckily there is one place on Earth where carbon emissions are irrelevant.

While most CO2 emissions cause wars, droughts, and kill eagles, there are some CO2 emissions that just create refrigerators, so nobody minds. …
The UN has met every year for twenty-eight years to badger everyone to stop using coal to appease the Goddess of Trace Gases and Weird Weather — all while China became the coal furnace of the world.
Or perhaps The UN met every year, so China could do exactly that? Lord above, imagine if the bureaucratic diplomats of the West could be bought off so easily by trophies, trinkets and photo-opportunities? Or perhaps they were naively trapped in cheap honeypot schemes? As a trade strategy, it would be a bargain. And it surely was.
Somehow life on Earth depends on Extinction Rebellion protestors, but they can’t seem to find the Chinese Embassy.
While the US understands that energy independence means prosperity and geopolitical security, Europe continues to sacrifice its economy, security and relevance on the altar of the green Net Zero religion.

But Germany was tricked into going backwards:

Meanwhile, evidence of actual global warming beyond a continuation of the warming trend since 1650 remains mighty scarce.

Average of 125 years of mostly rural USA weather stations
(with unadjusted data, as measured )