Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants
So, I'm gonna address the elephant in the room...<p>I don't know much about oilprice.com, but aside from the obvious information we can get from its name and general presentation, the first ad I see going on the site is a sponsored article from Saudi Aramco (the national Saudi oil company).<p>I'm confident saying this is the exact kind of lobbying outlet that would have the strongest incentives to deflect attention away from the oil industry by publishing articles about how the coal industry is worse, regardless of whether these articles actually help environmental policy.<p>That doesn't mean the article's claims are automatically false, just that we should be skeptical of them... and with this skepticism in mind, I'm not impressed with the headline "Top 5% Polluting Power Plants Account For 73% Of Global Emissions" implies that you could remove 73% of all CO2 emissions, whereas they're <i>actually</i> talking about CO2 emissions from electricity production, a much smaller fraction.<p>tldr Maybe there's an insight in there, but it's drowned in the corporate hot-potato throwing.