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2007-04-25 International-UN-NGOs

China could overtake US as largest carbon emitter by November.

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Posted by 3dc 2007-04-25 11:23|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 In other words, the frigging Communists Chinese have discovered capitalism and have created more jobs and opportunities for their peasant masses than the Euro bureaucrats have done in decades.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-04-25 11:48|| 2007-04-25 11:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, the horror! If the US isn't the largest carbon emitter the greenie-weanies will have to find something else to bitch at us about!

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-04-25 12:15|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-04-25 12:15|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't think they'll admonish the ChiComs no matter what. America is to be blamed first, last and always among that crowd.

Posted by eLarson 2007-04-25 12:39|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-04-25 12:39|| Front Page Top

#4 The WSJ had an article on the Centralia, PA coal fire. In it was this bellringer paragraph concerning out of control coal mine fires in China:

"Today uncontrolled mine fires burn fiercely in many nations; more than 100 million tons of coal are consumed by fires annually in China, contributing as much to world-wide carbon dioxide emissions as all the cars and light trucks in the U.S. In Colorado, one coal mine has burned for 100 years."

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Posted by Penguin 2007-04-25 13:27|| 2007-04-25 13:27|| Front Page Top

#5 "If the US isn't the largest carbon emitter the greenie-weanies will have to find something else to bitch at us about!"

It won't make the slightest bit of difference: they'll just switch their complaints from national CO2 emissions to per capita CO2 emissions, and keep right on bitchin'.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-04-25 14:07|| 2007-04-25 14:07|| Front Page Top

#6 It's just like how Amnesty International can condemn Israeli measures against the Palestinian terrorists yet turn a blind eye to how Islamic sharia law simultaneously violates scores of human rights.

China has consistently wrought massive ecological damage just as with the Soviet Union yet somehow gets a pass while the environmentalists constantly bash America.

Yes, our nation consumes massive amounts of resources. Then again, let me know when China or any other nation for that matter invents even a single thing akin to (not improves upon or copies) the microprocessor, laser, personal computer, LED, space telescope, GPS, Internet, space shuttle and a host of other technological breakthroughs that have not only bettered this entire world but have conserved massive amounts of resources through their improved energy effeciency.

Consider one single item, the personal computer. Imagine how many trees would be pulped on a daily basis if we were still using pencil and paper to keep track of our chores, taxes and the general information in our daily lives. The PC has saved the entire Amazonian rain forest by comparison.

Do environmentalists consider or even appreciate this this as they send out their email blasts?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-25 15:04|| 2007-04-25 15:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Zenster, no. The greenies complain that the PC's consume too much power and generate too much heat. They say we should turn our computers off when we are done using them.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-04-25 17:42|| 2007-04-25 17:42|| Front Page Top

#8 D *** ng it, RACE TO THE LEFT + KYOTO > means THE PLANET IS NOT AS POLLUTED AS IT RIGHTEOUSLY SHOULD BE. WHat matters is anti-consumerism, anti-capitalism, anti-democracy, anti-libertarianism, materialism, anti-capitalism and anti-competition, etc. GOING BACK TO THE FUTURE OF VIETNAM, STRONG UNIONS, NON-COMPETITIVE COMPANIES, PERVASIVE MASSIVE GOVT BAILOUTS, and a US ECONOMY PERMA FLUX = STAGFLATING AT 1000 POINTS ON THE DOW. Back then "Reality SHows" was GOOD TIMES, THE JEFFERSONS, THE BLUE SHIELD, etc.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-04-25 22:36|| 2007-04-25 22:36|| Front Page Top

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