YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP:

China: Climate talks yielded 'positive' results (GILLIAN WONG, 12/20/09, Associated Press)

China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, lauded Sunday the outcome of a historic U.N. climate conference that ended with a nonbinding agreement that urges major polluters to make deeper emissions cuts — but does not require it. [....]

The Obama administration on Sunday also defended the agreement as a "great step forward"...

or 大跃进

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 20, 2009 12:17 PM