"Global warming will mean billions of tons of additional potatos to cultivate. You have been warned."
Posted on 12/26/2007 3:02:20 AM PST by Flavius
China promised Wednesday to develop renewable energy for its fast-growing economy but warned that coal consumption will grow dramatically and avoided embracing binding limits on its greenhouse gas emissions.
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The folk who came up with the Kyoto treaty refused to include china or india in their scam.
The Chi-coms use coal extensively without scrubbers on their power plants.
Ahh but the chi-coms are socialists so it is ok that they pollute using coal.
The U.S. is evil for using coal even though we require scrubbers.
There are noxious, ice-cap melting capitalist emissions and benign, progressive communist emissions. IPCC report to follow...
communist emmissions??...Surely you jest!
next you’ll talk of communist lack of human rights. Propagandist meanie you are!
I'm sure that Al Gore will be publicly condemning them soon. /sarc>
The increase in China's CO2 output will actually exceed the entire CO2 "savings" that Kyoto Treaty hoped to create... and apparently nobody thinks that it's newsworthy.
Plant more grass. It uses CO2 faster than trees.
Uhhhh, can you be more specific of what type of grass, man?
-Dave
I’ll give them a bit of credit, they see one crucial flaw in their system.
A “strategic weakness,” the import of fuel.
Really can’t say that about us.
Well, I wouldn't say evil. But put in its proper perspective, the US still uses more coal than China on a per capita basis.
Yes and years ago many of our coal plants were required to install costly scrubbers to clean their exhaust.
China on the other hand has no such requirements. Also most folks there use coal to heat their homes, and cook their food.
My point is that the bulk of the issue surrounding global warming is the CO2 emissions. Which is a green house gas and cannot be fully contained by using scrubbers. The soot and the grime, mainly effect and is what is causing the haze across her cities. The CO2 emissions, affect everyone.
So, it is still an important point to note, that the US does emit more CO2, on a per capita basis, from coal than China. In other words, the issue shouldn't be the volume of coal China uses, but rather, as you said, whether they use scrubbers or not. Push for China to use scrubbers then. Don't condemn them for using coal. In fact, China would likely need to double it's coal consumption to match the US on a per capita basis.
As a parting comment. I do find it ironic, that the very people, from developed nations, that are so defensive about double standards directed at them, are the very first and most deligent about directing double standards at developing nations.
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