Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/25/2009 3:27:19 AM PDT by Scanian
UNFORTUNATELY, Chi na's president had to dash home to suppress ethnic riots. Had he stayed in Italy at the recent G-8 summit, he could have continued the Herculean task of disabusing Barack Obama of his amazingly durable belief (shared by Congress) that China -- and India, Brazil, Mexico and other developing nations -- will sacrifice their modernization on the altar of climate change. China has a more pressing agenda, and not even suppressing riots tops the list.
China made this clear in June, when its vice premier said, opaquely, that China would "actively" participate in climate-change talks on a basis of "common but differentiated responsibility."
The meaning of that was made clear three days later, at a climate-change conference in Bonn, Germany, where a Chinese spokesman reiterated that his country's priority is economic growth: "Given that, it is natural for China to have some increase in its emissions, so it is not possible for China in that context to accept a binding or compulsory target."
That was redundant. In January, China announced that its continuing reliance on coal as its primary source of energy would require increasing coal production by 30 percent in the next six years.
In Bonn, even thoroughly developed Japan promised only a 2 percent increase of its emission-reduction obligations under the 1997 Kyoto agreement. Japan's decision left Yvo de Boer, the slow learner who is the United Nations' climate-change czar, nonplussed: "For the first time in my 2½ years in this job, I don't know what to say."
Others did. They said: On to Italy! The Financial Times reported, "Officials are now pinning their hopes" on the G-8 summit.
Which has come and gone -- the eight having vowed to cut emissions of greenhouse gases by 80 percent by 2050, which is 41 years distant.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
What, the members of the Swedish delegation got too drunk to push for tough so-called climate change regulations?
We should drill here, drill now.
Americans can use the money they save on fuel toward buying health insurance.
Saves Social Security
Saves Medicare
Sequesters Carbon
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