Homo Erectus - Move The Dates Back in Asia

[Anomalocaris]

Most major HSS populations in Europe and Asia , including everyone in China and rest of mainland Asia, received a large majority of their gene pool from a single relatively small group of people who appear to have migrated out of Africa less than 100,000 year ago, and who were already anatomically fully homo sapien when they left Africa.  

Most modern sub-Saharan HSS populations did not descend from that group.  Rather that group arose from within the already existent and considerably diversified HSS population in Africa at that time.

There is evidence that a different group, also of Homo sapiens, left Africa earlier and were responsible for the first Homo sapiens to reach Southern India, parts of Philippines, and Australia.  These earlier people left distinctive genes in the modern populations in these areas that are absent from populations in the rest of Euroasia population.

Modern HSS populations outside Africa also all exhibit evidence of having sparsely interbred with indignious archaic human populations that they encountered in Europe and Asia.  So a small percentage of their gene pool are made up of genes that are not present at all in sub-Saharan African HSS populations.

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Uhem.  They are trying to shut down coal plants and other polluting industries, and have embraced carbon reduction targets and developed the largest renewable energy base in the world.

We are trying too keep coal live, weaken pollution standards, reject carbon reduction targets, and penalize renewable energy growth?

You sure about that ??   Or are we using a new updated version of the Newspeak Dictionary?  

From Wiki:

The People's Republic of China is the world’s largest coal extractor and has the third largest reserves after Russia and the United States. The Energy Watch Group predicted that the Chinese extraction will peak around 2015 in their 2007 report, and then revised that to 2020 in their March 2013 report.  The EWG also predicts that the recent steep rise in extraction will be followed by a steep decline after 2020. Another study puts the peak at 2027.  The US Energy Information Administration projects that China coal extraction will continue to rise until 2030

Yes,  I am dead certain about that.  I do this for a living.

China is building very few coal power plants and approving no new ones.   In so far as much of their existing coal fired generation are of quite recent vintage (15 years or less) they will continue to burn coal for a while.   But the bulk of their coal plants, being new, are also substantially cleaner and more efficient than the typical coal plants in the US.  They are forcing the shut down of older coal plants at a much younger age (30 years) then is typical of the US (45-50 years)

In the meantime, their economy is still growing 6% a year, and most of the added energy needs are met with renewables.   They are beating the pants off of us in amount of renewable generation coming on line every year.

Just in case you think American intent has been more pure,  I suggest you take your cerebrum out of your ass.   Until the fracking revolution made natural gas $3/MMBTU and cut the legs out from under coal - that was 2013 - the American power industry was poised to build a huge batch of new coal plants to take advantage of powder river basin coal.   In fact, to add capacity in anticipation of the boom in new coal plant construction, GE spent $10 billion to buy the largest maker of coal fired power plants in Europe that year. If it hadn’t been for fracking cutting the legs out from under American coal, China would not have overtaken the US in total CO2 emissions.   And they have 4.5 times more people.

Even today, on a per capita basis, their emission is about 1/3 ours.  Your personal polluting ass is emitting three times more than the average Chinese.  

Yet they are forcibly shutting down profitable coal mines, giving the younger 1/3 of the coal mining labor force retraining for assuming a different career and forcing remaining coal burning plants to buy higher quality, lower polluting coal.   We are trying to protect coal jobs like that will be the wave of the 21st century.  They signed onto Paris accord.  We backed out.   They incentivize new renewbles across the board, while some states in the US are actually penalizing new renewables as being detrimental to the coal they wish to promote.