How the U.S. wants to pressure China to help avert climate catastrophe

The Washington Post via MSN ^ | May 30, 2023 | by Michael Birnbaum, Christian Shepherd

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The Biden administration is searching for ways to push the world’s largest polluter to reduce carbon emissions, as superpower rivalries engulf a fragile bilateral relationship that could determine the future of global warming.

Since negotiations between U.S. climate envoy John F. Kerry and his Chinese counterparts stalled in August, Chinese provinces have accelerated their approvals of new coal power plants, sparking fears that China is moving away from its climate goals, not toward them.

Now Biden administration officials are trying to get talks back on track even as they also explore other tools, such as tariffs, that could be tied to the emissions level of products such as steel and aluminum.

How to navigate relations with China was a major focus of the Group of Seven summit this month. Leaders offered a host of tough-on-Beijing language and urged countries that “have the capabilities and are not yet among the current providers of international climate finance” to step up and do more to help developing nations invest in climate-related projects. That was a reference to China and other economically powerful players such as Middle Eastern oil nations.

Chinese factories that churn out batteries, solar panels and others key ingredients of the energy transition are so dominant that any global effort to reduce emissions will end up deeply dependent on Beijing, even as U.S. policymakers try to move manufacturing back to the United States in what G-7 leaders called “de-risking, not decoupling.”

[central_va]

Stop playing their game. The whole climate change thing is a hoax.

[Leaning Right]

> I think we need to have a liberal activist draft to launch a holy war land invasion of China mainland to take out all of their coal plants. <

You are on the right track. But instead of weapons, arm each one with a clipboard and checklist. Oh, and give them a box of tags, too.

So if a Chinese coal plant isn’t green enough, it gets a tag. Problem solved.

Side note to the activists: Don’t let the Chinese deny you access to the plants. Push your way in. The Chinese will fold. Trust me on this.

[Leaning Right]

> The whole climate change thing is a hoax. <

Absolutely. There have been many hoaxes in the past, of course. But this one is rather unique. No one is allowed to challenge this hoax. No one. If a scientist writes a paper questioning man-made climate change, it will not be published. And the scientist might even lose his job.

Public debate? Not possible. Try to set up a debate, and it will shut down by violent protesters. We have seen nothing like this in science since the end of the Dark Ages.

And here’s the worst part. The tons of money diverted to this hoax could be used instead to build hospitals, repair bridges, fight diseases, etc.

(sorry for the rant)

[devere]

The climate change crisis fraud is extraordinarily expensive.

[xp38]

The whole point of the thing is to cripple the west not China. Xi will have a good chuckle and tell Joe what to say.

[dfwgator]

[Democrat = party of treason]

Only thing Biden is looking for is his next ice cream cone...

[wardamneagle]

WashPost via MSN……there’s your sign……

[joshua c]

global warming
climate change
climate crisis
climate catastrophe
climate emergency a la covid

bye bye republic

[Carriage Hill]

“...the future of global warming.”

There is NONE.