{"id":851338,"date":"2026-08-11T11:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851338\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:04:14","slug":"is-convincing-a-coal-junkie-even-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851338\/","title":{"rendered":"Is convincing a coal junkie even possible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is convincing a coal junkie even possible?<\/p>\n<p>Not on yesterday\u2019s evidence. Confronted with debunked arguments left and right against his coal attachment, LVO yesterday pivoted to India, the old chestnut.<\/p>\n<p>Economically, India is currently sitting about where China was at the turn of the century. As illustrated below, if you slide India left three by nearly three decades, it looks just like China did:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Annual-CO2-emissions-India-vs-China.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"451\" alt=\"Annual C02 emissions\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is convincing a coal junkie even possible? Not on yesterday\u2019s evidence. Confronted with debunked arguments left and right&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-851338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}