April 24, 2007
THE BELCHING DRAGON (via Oswald Czolgosz):
Report: China Will Pass U.S. As Polluter (AP, 4/24/07)
China will pass the United States as the world's biggest source of greenhouse gasses this year, an official with the International Energy Agency was quoted as saying.China had been forecast to surpass the U.S. in 2010, but its sizzling economic growth has pushed the date forward, the IEA's chief economist, Fatih Birol, was quoted as saying in an interview appearing in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal newspaper.
"In the past couple of months, economic growth and related coal consumption has grown at such an unexpected rate," Birol was quoted as saying. China's rising emissions will effectively cancel out attempts by other countries to reduce their own, he said.
So a military deindustrialization of the Chinese would be more useful than our adopting the Kyoto Treaty? Why, it's enough to make Al Gore a hawk again.... Posted by Orrin Judd at April 24, 2007 7:02 PM
My, my, my, what will the Euros whine about to us now????
Posted by: Sandy P at April 24, 2007 8:37 PMThis has got to be our fault somehow! ...right?
Posted by: Dave W at April 24, 2007 9:23 PMHave you noticed something in common between China and us? We both are producers. Our products support the world. The "clean" countries transfer their dirty jobs to China then blame China for polluting the air.
Posted by: ic at April 24, 2007 10:22 PMPsst. It's OK if China pollutes the air. All they have to do is vow to be a counterweight to that hegemon, the US of A, and all will be forgiven. Or understood. (Or supported.)
Posted by: Barry Meislin at April 25, 2007 6:12 AMBarry is close to the truth.
Gore isn't interested in the environment, he's interested in hobbling the US, and then coverting it to a Euro-style superstate.
Watch the media. They will ignore this story.
Posted by: Bruno at April 25, 2007 8:02 AM