The great pall of China

[DesertFox]

In a seismic shift for the world, China will overtake the United States as the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases this year, far earlier than thought - and present the problem of tackling climate change in even more difficult terms.

The Chinese economy, which is now growing at the unprecedented rate of 11 per cent annually, is sending carbon emissions from China's mushrooming coal-fired power stations beyond those of the whole of the US, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said yesterday.

Less than three years ago the Paris-based IEA forecast that China would overtake the US as the world's biggest polluter - but not before 2025. More recently it said that China would be first by 2010.

More (http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2483839.ece)

[DeclinetoState]

Yet these are the same scientists no doubt who have determined beyond any possible doubt that greenhouse emissions are causing global <del>warming</del> climate change, and that we will all <del>cook</del> <del>freeze to death</del> die if we don't do something about it yesterday.

[DoctorDoom]

Deaths attributable to Gorebull warming are a matter of fact. Earth has experienced many times of warming in its history, and not one person who experienced them is alive today.

[DesertFox]

It's too late. We're already dead, we just don't know it. :smirk: