As we can all see from the coal consumption graph here from the BP while North America and Europe have decreased their coal consumption over the last decade 150 million tons the Asia Pacific has increased its consumption 300 million doubling the decrease for the "western world".
As several people keep pointing out CO2 is not going anywhere but up, and if not for the mass conversion of many American coal burning plants have converted over to burn natural gas in its place. Despite all claims by the fossil fuel industry while Natural Gas is less of a CO2 source it is still a CO2 source. Even worse all the thousands of miles of new pipes and new wells producing the gas inevitably leads to thousands of new leaks. Even if every leak is only 0.1% each leak is of nearly pure CH4 gas which has a warming impact of 25 to 100 times an equivalent quantity of CO2, depending on the source used for the calculation. At the low end the leaked CH4 has a global warming potential that more than cancels the 50% reduction in CO2 emissions that occur when it is burned compared to coal.
Therefore between the 600 million tons of additional coal being burned and the Natural Gas consumption that has also grown with great rapidity I don't see humanity turning away from tipping Earth over into a new climate long before we come to our senses. Thus once again I plea, put your funds into adaptation instead of pretending yet again that we will change our ways of burning everything we can ignite in our quest to consume every flammable we can access. Humans are at their core are pyromaniacs from the days of Adam to now and will likely always be so.
