"The West.... using a carbon cap as a way to contain China"
Except the crafty Chinese are BEATING THEM to the PUNCH!
"A Chinese person emits one-fifth as much greenhouse gas as an American....
I'll bet it's diet, pffffft.
China has taken significant steps in the past five years. It removed subsidies for motor fuel, which now costs more than it does in the United States; its fuel-efficiency standard for new urban vehicles is 36.7 miles per gallon, a level the United States will not reach for seven years. It has set high efficiency standards for new coal plants; the United States has none."
HOW DARE WE CRITICIZE, arrogant America?
HOW DARE WE?!!!!!!
Also see: China Cutting Deals in Africa
So many things are starting to make sense when you look at the BIG PICTURE!
"China tackles its carbon emissions; Move comes as energy use booms" by Steven Mufson, Washington Post | November 1, 2009
LANGFANG, China - At a gleaming new research center outside Beijing, about 250 engineers and researchers from ENN Group are trying to figure out how to make energy use less damaging to the world’s climate.
In a large greenhouse, hundreds of tubes hold strains of algae being tested for how much carbon dioxide they can suck from the air. Outside, half a dozen brands of solar panels are being matched for performance against the company’s own. Next door, large blocks of earth have been trucked in to test for new methods of gasifying coal underground....
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Among members of the US Congress and negotiators preparing for a December climate summit in Copenhagen, China is often considered an obstacle because it has not committed to a ceiling on its emissions of the gases most scientists blame for climate change....
And the MSM would NEVER TELL US ANYTHING that CONTRADICTS the NEW GLOBAL GOVERNMENT RELIGION!
Also see: Beijing saw its first snow two months earlier than last year
Yeah, SOMEHOW THAT does NOT MAKE MY PAPER!
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The steps are driven in part by the concern that climate change could worsen the flooding that plagues the country’s low-lying coastal regions and cause water shortages in western areas as Himalayan glaciers melt. But China has also begun to see energy efficiency and renewable energy as ingredients for the type of modern economy it wants to build, in part because it would make the nation’s energy sources more secure.
“We think this is a new business for us, not a burden,’’ said Gan Zhongxue, who left a job as a top US scientist for the giant
Still, China has taken significant steps in the past five years. It removed subsidies for motor fuel, which now costs more than it does in the United States; its fuel-efficiency standard for new urban vehicles is 36.7 miles per gallon, a level the United States will not reach for seven years. It has set high efficiency standards for new coal plants; the United States has none. It has set new energy-efficiency standards for buildings. It has targeted its 1,000 top emitters of greenhouse gases to boost energy efficiency by 20 percent. And it has shut down many older, inefficient plants.
“Regardless of whether the United States passes its own legislation, China will take positive measures because this is a requirement for our own economy to conserve resources,’’ said Xie Zhenhua, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission and China’s point man in international climate talks. If China mimics the West’s wasteful modernization path, he said, the environment would not be livable.
In climate talks, China has argued that industrialized nations should do more to slow the pace of climate change compared with developing nations, where raising living standards is the priority. And some Chinese commentators have accused the West of using a carbon cap as a way to contain China’s advancement. Nonetheless, the government has set ambitious targets for renewable energy....
tree planting to boost forest cover....
China plans to quadruple its nuclear power; by the end of next year, it may have 18 nuclear energy plants under construction, half of the world’s total under construction. The Paris-based International Energy Agency said the efforts are starting to pay off. The agency lowered its estimate of future Chinese greenhouse emissions.
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Yet, for all of China’s efforts, its greenhouse gas emissions are likely to head upward. Hitting the energy targets will be challenging. The explosion in the number of wind turbines has created a transmission bottleneck; many turbines stand idle, awaiting new transmission lines and connections with the main power grids.
As they have in CALIFORNIA for DECADES!!!
The country lacks the skilled manpower to effectively construct, operate or regulate nuclear power stations. Key components might be in short supply, too. All that contributes to China’s continued reliance on coal - and its reluctance to guarantee a ceiling on its emissions at the Copenhagen summit.
What, ANOTHER CLUB to BEAT CHINA over the head with?
Related: Climate bill faces deep resistance in Senate
Yeah, it is CALLED HYPOCRISY and IT STINKS!!!!!--more--"
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