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Major Domonation
January 17, 2022 at 6:10 pm
Crude oil processing rates in China reached a record last year, rising by 4 percent over 2020 to 14.13 million barrels daily, Bloomberg reported, noting that the increase was led by state refiners.
The state-owned majors had to step in and compensate for drops in production in the independent refining industry as Beijing clamped down on the so-called teapots with a tax on dirtier feedstocks.
This year will likely see further increases in the amount of crude Chinese refineries process as two new facilities will come on stream. One of these, property of independent Shengdong Group, will have a capacity of 320,000 barrels daily. The other, a property of PetroChina, will have the capacity to process 400,000 bpd.
Major Domonation
January 17, 2022 at 6:20 pm
Libya’s crude oil production has rebounded to 1.2 million barrels daily, according to the country’s oil minister, Mohammed Oun.
Speaking to Bloomberg, Oun said Libya’s crude oil output was back to normal after a series of outages, adding that the biggest field in the country, El Sharara, was producing at near maximum capacity, which is 300,000 bpd.
Libya’s oil production dropped sharply earlier this month after the National Oil Corporation shut down a key pipeline for much-needed repairs. The pipeline shutdown led to a 200,000-bpd decline in production.
amcluesent
January 17, 2022 at 6:31 pm
Climate change is hoax that began with the ‘hockey stick’ curve
zoe
January 17, 2022 at 6:34 pm
Global demand for fossils fuels is increasing. If your want change you have to first change the demand. Expecting publicly traded company to reduce production when demand is increasing is ignorance.
Home Wall
January 17, 2022 at 8:20 pm
And wanting government to force a fix when they spend our money for the past 100 years to prop up oil, including never-ending wars.
jadoei13
January 17, 2022 at 8:33 pm
Yes I totally agree but at the same time the demand is very much price dependent. If they were twice as expensive the demand would start to decrease over time and drive customers towards alternatives. In that regard opening up a new oil field, which increases supply and decreases prices, is making the situation worse.
Eli Nope
January 17, 2022 at 8:46 pm
@jadoei13 Its altering the situation. That is better or worse depending on your goals and desires. Not all people agree that this world order is a thing worth sustaining into the future.
Ferdie van Schalkwyk
January 17, 2022 at 9:17 pm
You can do both. if you want to reduce dangerous illegal drugs, you need to both legalize safe alternatives, as well as go after illegal production.
Hey Jude
January 17, 2022 at 9:34 pm
Which is exactly the purpose of regulation, and in point of fact, the primary reason of having government at all – to protect everyone from the bad actions of the few. Sometimes you have to force profit-driven business to do the right thing. Regulation would allow us control production, which will drive prices up, which in turn motivates conversion to clean energies and reduces demand.
Part of the reason they are growing production (beyond what demand alone would require by the way) is that they are trying to keep costs low enough to help prevent people from making the switch to other sources.
But she’s right, as soon as you mine a ton of coal, or take a barrel of oil or gas out of the ground, you can pretty well guarantee that the carbon in it is going to end up in the atmosphere. If we are going to hit warming targets, we have to limit production through legislation/regulation AND change demand by propagating clean energy.
We simply don’t have time to think demand alone will get this done.
TheVigilante2000
January 17, 2022 at 7:43 pm
Weapons vs. Energy non-proliferation treaty. Weapons are optional and only useful to conquer and/or defend. Energy is everything else. It’s not going to be as ‘easy’.
question ade
January 17, 2022 at 7:44 pm
So what is it ‘climate change’ ‘climate crisis’ or ‘global warming’?
This poor woman is so deluded that what she is talking is complete goobledygook. Nitrogen 78%, Oxygen 21%, Argon 0.93%, CO2 0.04%
+ a touch of neon, heluim, methane, krypton (really), hydrogen and water vapour. These are the gases that make up earths atmosphere. Only a fraction of the 0.04% of carbon dioxide is man made. Termites make most of it. Fossil Fuels are the only credible power source. Alternatives like wind and solar are a total failure. They were never ever going to work and anyone who goes along with this idiocy needs their head tested. Learn about the roots of this ridiculous CO2 = bad narrative. You’ll find them in the oil industry. Look up Maurice Strong and the 1972 stockholm enviromental conference. Where it was first suggested by Maurice Strong (oilman) and Edmund de Rothschild that the burning of fossil fuels is harming the enviroment and they were going to do something about it. It wasn’t ‘warming’ back then just the opposite. By the time of the Rio Summit in 1990 what was predicted by these 2 charlatans had not materilized so they changed track and warned of anthropological ‘global warming’ which still to this day cannot be proved. Mainly because of the fact CO2 is the result of warming not the cause as is being touted by religious activist like this deluded speaker.
nonsense4
January 17, 2022 at 7:46 pm
I guess I missed the part where she explains what we replace the oil/gas/coal with.
Pat Harrap
January 17, 2022 at 8:30 pm
SIMPLE. Start the switch to a plant based economy using iHemp, Kenaf, bamboo, Soy, algae, etc.
No gun no fear
January 17, 2022 at 10:25 pm
Those industries will be replaced with death and desolation. We don’t have any other plan that anyone will put any money behind. So party on My wayward son’s while you can.
Home Wall
January 17, 2022 at 8:15 pm
The US never taxes negative externalities.
The US releases oil to keep prices lower so more is burned.
The US goes to war against poor people who never attacked us to protect the oil industries of some truly despotic Islamist nations.
Home Wall
January 17, 2022 at 8:17 pm
Solar/wind is only cheaper for the energy it produces, but not for the energy needed when they are not producing it during uncooperative weather or that pesky nighttime for solar. NOBODY would buy oil if it were truly cheaper to use alternatives today.
Ferdie van Schalkwyk
January 17, 2022 at 9:15 pm
Look at the South Australia case study. With current battery storage tech, they managed to solve that problem. And with Iron rust batteries starting production deployments, the cost and ecological impact with be dramatically reduced for storage. This is a very different picture from just 10 years ago.
bla blup
January 17, 2022 at 9:30 pm
Still why is it needed to subsidy coal / oil / gas if this is truly cheaper than the alternatives ?
Home Wall
January 17, 2022 at 8:18 pm
NO doubt you actively worked to kill of the nuclear energy industry 30-50 years ago, ensuring greater pollution and lost tech advances that come from experience.
george so___s
January 17, 2022 at 8:31 pm
And that’s why we must eat the rich.
Tomás Márquez
January 17, 2022 at 8:40 pm
I love the BS of this activist. They dress with polyester, live in rich countries, travel by plane, have suvs, and ask poor countries to stay away from coal mines and oil. Why these eco activist live in cities instead of the Amazon jungle?
Deep Ashtray
January 17, 2022 at 9:44 pm
Doesn’t address the issue, though.
skelitalmisfit12
January 17, 2022 at 8:46 pm
I mean, are we really surprised that governments have only their own interests in mind? Keeping the money flowing into their bottomless coffers for as long as possible, even if it shoots their foot in the process. When everyones dead from choking on CO2 no one will be alive to pay into the corrupt and endless perpetuation of the governmental death hold that is held upon us all.
Hey Jude
January 17, 2022 at 9:23 pm
I’ve never understood fossil fuel subsidies. Anybody who pays attention to stock markets at all knows that fossil fuel is a WILDLY profitable industry. Why on earth are we handing them our tax money? All we are doing is spending revenue to increase their profit margin. We aren’t keeping them in business; they’d do just fine without the subsidies.
Really, if you want proof that government is corrupt, look no further. Our legislators can’t tell their lobbyists “no, you’re done getting free money”. Even while we talk about how we can’t afford to expand basic necessities like healthcare even the tiniest bit, every year we hand big oil free money they simply do not need.
2mach4yu
January 17, 2022 at 9:26 pm
I am not agree with what she is saying.
Memeworks Animations
January 17, 2022 at 11:13 pm
cringe + ratio
Hid Sp
January 17, 2022 at 9:34 pm
CCS is proven technology. Please don’t spread lies. If you did some better research you would have found the Sleipner field in Norway. They (Equinor) have been storing huge quantities of CO2 in the subsurface for about 30 years now.
Deep Ashtray
January 17, 2022 at 9:42 pm
Evryone needs to hear this. The issue is the same with plastics; ignore what the producers are doing and leave the responsibility on the end users.
John Smith
January 17, 2022 at 11:54 pm
Humans are not the cause of climate change. It happens naturally all the time.
Deep Ashtray
January 18, 2022 at 1:19 am
@John Smith Not this time.
The Institute of Snobbish Intellectualism
January 17, 2022 at 10:14 pm
A demand for crude oil will not stop because of climate change. The burning of Crude Oil might. The petro-chemical side is in plastics, detergents, pain killers and other drugs, paints, solvents and many other modern wonders. If we do not charge more than a small land use fee for larger and larger companies to put a straw in and suck the life out of the land we will lose whether we burn the crude oil or not.
Jimmynoleaks boilerman
January 17, 2022 at 10:27 pm
We need to stop breathing, god only knows what amount of co2 was spewed during this talk.
No gun no fear
January 17, 2022 at 10:30 pm
I agree with her wholeheartedly. I really do. I just differ in that I accept the fact that we have failed. Nobody cares enough to change the status quo. We have the means we have the brains we definitely have the need what we don’t have is the will. It’s going to getting a whole lot worse before it ever starts to get better. And yeah it breaks my heart too. It is sinful it is disgusting it is evil. It’s humanity at its worst. Greed is truly the root of all evil. Talk amongst yourselves. Figure it out. I’m old. It’s on the young to break the back of this beast. I won’t be here to help you but my heart is with you. I have to believe in you.
Elise Anderson
January 18, 2022 at 1:12 am
The older generations raised the young, and I think it’s time to return the favor. Where you may have stumbled, we’ll do what we can to help you back up. No failure has destroyed humanity before, and we’ve continued forward despite the greed that would shackle us and taunt us with the shortness of our own lives. I think it’s about time for a new renaissance, don’t you?
Have hope. The pieces are in place, and the both of us are still alive. We’ll walk into the shining future together.
WeAre Paramore
January 17, 2022 at 11:56 pm
26 COPs before the text coal is written in Paris accords, that’s what happened when the countries who are leaders are the least affected by climate change but contributed the most emissions while the least emitting countries but affected the most by climate change can’t even go in this summit or influence the decisions of climate policies, that’s western leadership for you
freggo
January 18, 2022 at 12:30 am
Why does nobody point out that Oil, Gas and Coal are Nature’s way of Carbon sequestering!
To Zo
January 18, 2022 at 4:42 am
Sure, if they just lie around, but we freaking burn them to release the carbon.
Diane
January 18, 2022 at 1:50 pm
Exactly and yet we burn them thus fighting against nature’s way of carbon sequestering.
energyideas
January 18, 2022 at 12:32 am
I endorse a fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty.
wojciech strzelecki
January 18, 2022 at 1:09 am
Dislike button 👎
wojciech strzelecki
January 18, 2022 at 1:35 am
6:40 and yes she is. Specifically, she’s possessed by an idea/ ideology that is inextricably intertwined with her ego & sense of value unable of psychological detachment. Person of such is more than likely to be close minded rigid in believes & process incoming information not objectively & unbiasedly but via prism, distorted/ filterd by her ideological axioms while willfully blind towards anything that threatens that ego based rigid believes. People like that are hurt, spiteful & many times vengeful (great most vivid example is ofc Adolf Hitler’s psychology) and dangerous to themselves & others if they come to any substantial power and in healthy society those ppl should be ideally ignored & exactly treated as, sadly, crazy, but that applause at the end is and inane shouts of support are very chilling of what may come in next decades…
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.
George Orwell
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities
Voltaire
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
William Osler
True Crime Queen TV
January 18, 2022 at 1:45 am
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pimpitypimpster99
January 18, 2022 at 1:48 am
Pick your poison: billions of people die with no oil or gas, or billions die because of climate change. I pick oil and gas
Hammer Ology
January 18, 2022 at 2:01 am
The thing that sucks is that we will rely on fossil fuels for hundreds of years to come. The other big industrial countries are laughing at the future economic downfall of the USA as they keep drilling and growing. Your electric empire is a failure. Oh but the climate? That’s only the care of the little people. Not the big economics world that runs everything.
ShaoYuanYuan
January 18, 2022 at 3:35 am
It seems that people have to see the worst result of it, then they start to change, but maybe only their mind.
Changing the way of life might take much longer time.
Being the earlier changers!
lionel thompson
January 18, 2022 at 4:13 am
I know electrical causes its own problems to buy antique at all the materials with the batteries but it’s still better than oil and coal
Sadegh 6Khan
January 18, 2022 at 6:24 am
There’s no point in electrical if the majority of electricity is still produced by fossil fuels, which is the case in US.
Warlock
January 18, 2022 at 12:40 pm
Coal is probably the main resource for producing electricity and to say electricity is better than fossil fuels is incorrect. It doesn’t match nor come close to the output of energy produced by combustion. Plus the convenience of fast refueling is better than the charging time of anything electric. Safety is probably the best debatable aspect of the 2, but either way, both remain crucial and neither can replace the other.
Bloop Bloop
January 18, 2022 at 4:32 am
Here’s an idea, how about we kill the ceo’s of fossil fuel companies
Dee Em-tee
January 18, 2022 at 6:02 am
Treaties are moot if demand is not addressed.
To Zo
January 18, 2022 at 6:50 am
The problem about the change she mentions at the end of her speech is, that change to more “stuff” is easier. We have to change to less “stuff” to fix our problems and no one is happy about getting less, thats why such a change is harder to get. No one is willing to change their behaviour to more discipline and less comfort unless it is enforced strictly.
Anders Fagerström
January 18, 2022 at 7:48 am
Keep the poor poor, the cold cold. 1,5 is a made up number. So much effort put in a cause that is based on a crazy Idea. Back to basics – CO2 is plant food. An increase from 300-400 ppm makes plants grow better. CO2 does not affect weather in any significant way. The only reason smart people agree on man made climate change, is because they want to keep their job or business. “Believers ” have taken over the western world. The same type of believers that thought kommunism was a good idea. Reality won there, but the urge to belong to a higher cause is strong. Nobody who wants to be included dares to ask the wrong questions. How dare you!? I would be fun to listen in on the conversation she has with her grandchildren when she explains that we use to travel and fly to experience other parts of the world. The children sitting with masks and implanted citizen chips waiting for their monthly vaccination, forbidden to leave their compound. -She won.
Brett B
January 18, 2022 at 8:02 am
This person is an eco-fascist and should be locked up.
Anete Zepa
January 18, 2022 at 9:25 am
Good talk but she did not show the proof, the numbers.
Ps. I believe what she says but it’s a belief not I’ve been presented all proof needed to myself see that this is the truth.
Aaron
January 18, 2022 at 10:11 am
Comment for the algo
L0g1cSeer
January 18, 2022 at 1:05 pm
Abso-fuckinglutely Great Discernment!
Luân Bùi
January 18, 2022 at 1:12 pm
She makes many powers to discard that
Tudor Ioan
January 18, 2022 at 3:05 pm
And so the world is spending its intellectual, its financial, its technical capital to dig up stuff that we know we can’t burn, and if we do, it will burn us. How insane is that ?!?🙃
Tyler Payne
January 18, 2022 at 3:51 pm
despite the economic crisis i still think this is a right time to start up an investment
Claude
January 18, 2022 at 3:57 pm
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AKEODI IMIETE
January 18, 2022 at 3:57 pm
lots of story about him, he must be honest and for people to talk this good about him
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January 18, 2022 at 3:58 pm
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Stephanie Davis
January 18, 2022 at 3:59 pm
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DynnoJMelloe
January 18, 2022 at 5:18 pm
Bots are getting smarter these days
Bernhard Schmalhofer
January 19, 2022 at 5:46 pm
@Lora Gimenez Isn’t is plain cracy to say, “let’s spend a ton of energy for computing useless numbers” as a reply to a talk about climate change?
vinit kadam
January 18, 2022 at 4:03 pm
People from ted are idiot they motivate china propaganda and when they upload video which subject is based on china then they turn off comment box.
auyemra
January 18, 2022 at 4:56 pm
Why turn off the comments for the China pollution vid? did they pay you to help create it, and then eliminate real discussion about it? because thats what it is,
youve lost my subscription, so lame
Nazim Rahman
January 18, 2022 at 5:40 pm
When a company mines gas, oil, or coal, do they do it to store it and never sell. No. The match consumption. We all enjoy heat, cooling, transportation and other comforts. Yet, we insist it is not our fault. Energy companies are simply supplying what we need and want. I prefer to run my furnace rather than freeze to death. When there is no demand, the companies will transition. So let’s focus on switching electricity to green sources, stop going to far away places for vacations and conferences, buy locally grown food when possible, and insist on not using single use plastics (40% of all plastics created). It is time to accept that we are causing climate change because of the way we live our lives. And yes, let’s keep pushing our governments to introduce reforms that incentivize us to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. Better insulated homes. More efficient appliances. Energy from green sources. No more gas guzzling vehicles.
Zenn Exile
January 18, 2022 at 11:01 pm
This actually doesn’t matter if we do what needs to be done and begin to replace the natural systems that existed and sustained all life prior to the Industrial Revolution. We can keep burning fossil fuels if the coal and oil sand companies were willing to buy double the land, half to mine, and then half to rehabilitate into wild natural resources. If the offshore drillers are willing to rehabilitate twice again as much coast line as they threaten. And properly according to scientists fluent in natural ecology, not according to corporate expense reports and brand recognition.
We can put 5x as much carbon as we’ve produced so far back into the ground in the form of microbial mats. We can apply these overabundance models to global agriculture models and end food scarcity. Bring back the farmers and the idea that keeping land healthy and productive is the only truly noble way humans can live. Make being a farmer a choice anyone can make at any point in their lives and be empowered and provided with what they need to succeed. Put all the unemployed people to work sustaining their own lives and selling their abundance.
There is no reason to continue pretending this climate crisis isn’t solvable. Creating policy that benefits everyone is not only possible, but simple. And the only reason we aren’t passing these policies into law globally is because of localized pissing matches between life-long lead-poisoned geriatrics who’ve been runnin with autopilot behind their eyes for decades. They are too cognitively impaired to understand what is happening and they are replacing logic and reason with tribalism and aggression. Very clearly the result of their lead soak birth and subsequent lead showered lives prior to the 1980’s.
The solution to everything is to put back into the soil what was taken. All carbon can be turned into bacteria, fungus, plants, insects, and animals. ALL OF IT. So much so that we would need to carefully regulate how much abundance we create, and how we manage the waste, to avoid rapidly cooling the planet as quickly as we warmed it.
I just saved the future for billions of kids who haven’t even been born yet. But all you monkeys are busy fighting over who gets to wear the rubber pants. Extinction might just be the moral and ethical thing at this point.
Bernhard Schmalhofer
January 19, 2022 at 5:44 pm
> We can keep burning fossil fuels if the coal and oil sand companies were willing to buy
> double the land, half to mine, and then half to rehabilitate into wild natural resources.
That math does not work out. Unfortunately it is not that easy.
Filan Gimn
January 19, 2022 at 2:48 am
Why are the comments turned off in the latest TED video about China?
bobabooty
January 19, 2022 at 4:04 am
why were comments turned off on the latest china video?? what’s with the censorship?
Ichiban Noodles
January 19, 2022 at 4:49 am
pretty sure she uses fossil fuels in some way, shape or form !
Bernhard Schmalhofer
January 19, 2022 at 5:50 pm
Sure, climate change can’t be avoided by individual action. Group action is needed, which is exactly her talking point.
Ichiban Noodles
January 19, 2022 at 6:19 pm
@Bernhard Schmalhofer may as well use them until we find an alternative.
Bernhard Schmalhofer
January 19, 2022 at 6:30 pm
@Ichiban Noodles We are in the lucky situation that it isn’t a matter of finding any more, it’s a matter of doing it now.
Ichiban Noodles
January 19, 2022 at 6:37 pm
@Bernhard Schmalhofer lets agree to disagree. It’s -21c here where I live. There isn’t a person here that will go without gas to heat their homes. Their isn’t enough solar panels in the world to heat the whole country.
Bernhard Schmalhofer
January 20, 2022 at 11:49 am
@Ichiban Noodles I understand that some changes are easier than others. Electricity being easier than home heating. Here in not so cold Munich, I’m currently also heating with natural gas. I think I need to pester my landlord some more, so that I can switch to the nifty geothermal district heating system.
Ichiban Noodles
January 20, 2022 at 2:53 pm
@Bernhard Schmalhofer Have you seen the carbon footprint that solar power leaves ? Also the pollution created to make lithium batteries. and then the garbage that’s left behind from these batteries ?
aaron rolson
January 19, 2022 at 10:58 am
How’s that green scheme working in Europe ?? Lol
Mike Pict
January 19, 2022 at 12:26 pm
Energy is solved , the problem is getting all these feminists to do real work , ie build it and operate it
Daniel N
January 19, 2022 at 2:13 pm
Ted shutting down comments about China is the height of hypocrisy. I suggest everyone unsubscribe if you believe in free speech.
Bernie DeLorme
January 20, 2022 at 1:10 am
Why not start with helping the Air and Water Pollution problem in Third world countries China, India, Russia, S.E. Asia and Africa.
Primary energy consumption worldwide in 2020, by country (in exajoules)
Characteristic Consumption in exajoules
China* 145.46
United States 87.79
India 31.98
Russia 28.31
Jordan Earl
January 20, 2022 at 3:12 pm
ok so how did she get to her ted talk? plane? car? bus? all fossil fuel. if shes not willing to stop for her principles….how can she expect others to.
Guiel Koschnivski
January 21, 2022 at 9:42 pm
I have never heard a person speak so many words without actually saying anything.
Audrey P
January 22, 2022 at 12:13 am
I hope here grandkids survive ecological collapse I highly doubt anyone except a few billionaires in space will be able to survive once the permafrost melts
J Westney
January 23, 2022 at 6:08 am
1) One billion humans alive today do not have access to electricity. 2) Powering our electric cars (like the one I drive) will require doubling our electric grid. So how are we gonna do this? She illustrates in her talk that wind and solar alone are not strong enough. But wind plus solar plus generation iv fission power is a powerful combination that can provide abundant energy for 8 billion humans on earth while eliminating fossil fuels. People who learn about generation iv fission power learn how we can CONSUME old nuclear waste and CONSUME nuclear weapons and produce affordable, sustainable power for a thousand years while we learn to do fusion power. Go ahead and hate on the old fashioned fission power that we still depend on today for most of our reliable carbon-free power today. Learn about LIFTR. Learn about Thorcon. Learn about Terra power. Tell our governments that when people invent safe clean fission power, they should be encouraged to build it. Wind and solar can do a lot, but not enough! Gen iv fission power is the essential ingredient. In combination these can provide the energy to be fair to all humans and also reverse the damage that oil companies are doing to our planet. There is hope! Cheers!