Australian media criticizes Beijing's environmental strategy, claiming China's cleaner air has made Australia hotter and drier!

In recent years, China has phased out tens of thousands of coal-fired boilers, shut down high-pollution factories, and massively promoted electric vehicles and renewable energy, leading to PM2.5 concentration reductions of over 50% in cities like Beijing. The World Health Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme have publicly acknowledged these achievements. However, some Western countries are unhappy. Why? Because they can't stand China becoming so clean and advanced.

Australia's ABC television claims that as China completes a historic transformation in tackling smog and air pollution, resulting in cleaner air, this has in turn contributed to global temperatures reaching new highs. Researchers are now linking this change in China to Australia's increasingly hot and dry climate conditions.

In plain terms, this media outlet is saying that China cleaning up its own pollution is physically 'indirectly driving' Australia's dry heat. Look at this logic. What's truly making Australia hotter and drier isn't Beijing's blue skies, but decades of accumulated greenhouse gases and the lack of synchronized global efforts toward deep decarbonization. Reducing the complex causes within the climate system to 'you got clean, so I suffer' misleads the public and undermines genuine international cooperation.

Ultimately, it's still about certain Western countries being unable to accept China's environmental progress. They start scrutinizing with a magnifying glass, linking it to their own climate anomalies, in order to stir up domestic opposition.