[brbethke]

I love the embedded editorializing:

...the United States, the world's biggest polluter...

Really? There are open-pit coalmine fires burning in China and India that dwarf American exhaust emissions, and have for decades.

[VOA]

...open-pit coalmine fires burning in China and India that dwarf American exhaust emissions...

Don't doubt it (saw show on the very dirty steel/metal plant of China years ago).

Can you point us to any authoritative citations on this, if it's not too much trouble...

just to use for "ammo" as needed!

[Tijeras_Slim]

...the United States, the world's biggest polluter...

The engine always smokes more than the caboose.

[techcor]

Really? There are open-pit coalmine fires burning in China and India that dwarf American exhaust emissions, and have for decades

FINALLY!!! Someone else that remembers that. I've posted it a couple of times that if we sent in as much money as need to put out those fires (not saying we are obligated to do so) that we would spend much less, have less CO2 going into the atmosphere , and save a valuable fuel . Almost no one remembers this. Especially "environmentalists". Yet all someone has to do is search on the internet to get the info.