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2007-06-20 China-Japan-Koreas

China passes US as world's biggest CO2 emitter

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Posted by Steve White 2007-06-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 How did this happen? Does China have their own Congress now?

Posted by Dar">Dar 2007-06-20 00:47|| 2007-06-20 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 OMG run in fear.

China must be emitting 1% of the 0.1% of the plant-food in the atmosphere from human emissions, that is 0.03% of the total atmosphere.

This won't get a big mention in the MSM becuase AGW is about controlling/owning people not the climate.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-06-20 02:58|| 2007-06-20 02:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Damn it we're slipping, we gotta get the Plant Food Title Back!!

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-06-20 05:09|| 2007-06-20 05:09|| Front Page Top

#4 They do not include sources of other greenhouse gases such as methane ....

They forgot breathing. A fair system of allocating CO2 emissions would give each country a total breaths allocation. They would then have to allocate that equitably over their population. The Chinese would just have to breath only a quarter as much as Americans.

Those who stop breathing can sell their unused breaths as Breathing Credits to those who wish to breath more.

Posted by phil_b 2007-06-20 05:27|| 2007-06-20 05:27|| Front Page Top

#5 LOL, phil_b.

Although, I belive there is a group of people that already does entertain your scenario seriously.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-06-20 05:37|| 2007-06-20 05:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Phil_b-
We keyboard commandos can earn CO2 credits and sell them to the iron man triathletes, right?

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-20 07:47|| 2007-06-20 07:47|| Front Page Top

#7 So how is this gonna be the US's fault. I haven't heard that explained yet. But I have no doubt that it's coming.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-06-20 09:32|| 2007-06-20 09:32|| Front Page Top

#8 That's easy, bigjim. We buy all their plastic crap.

Posted by treo 2007-06-20 09:58|| 2007-06-20 09:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Ooh, yeah.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-06-20 10:24|| 2007-06-20 10:24|| Front Page Top

#10 No one ever mentions that the U.S.A. is actually a net-carbon-sink. Through our Forestry and reforestation activities we actually "fix" more carbon than we produce.

I guess the Socialists are entitled to their own set of facts.

Posted by Natural Law 2007-06-20 10:49|| 2007-06-20 10:49|| Front Page Top

#11 So when is Al Gore gonna seethe about this?

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-06-20 11:10|| 2007-06-20 11:10|| Front Page Top

#12 When they don't call "Al Gore's Carbon Credit and Private Jet Rental Emporium"...

Posted by tu3031 2007-06-20 11:16|| 2007-06-20 11:16|| Front Page Top

#13 THis doesn't even include all their runaway coal mine fires, which are numerous.

Posted by Penguin 2007-06-20 22:57|| 2007-06-20 22:57|| Front Page Top

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