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China is Now Top CO2 Emitter

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China has already overtaken the US as the world’s “biggest polluter”, a report to be published next month says.

The research suggests the country’s greenhouse gas emissions have been underestimated, and probably passed those of the US in 2006-2007.

The University of California team will report their work in the Journal of Environment Economics and Management.

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BBC Website: China ‘now top carbon polluter’

The above article was written by the BBC’s Roger Harrabin. Any activist using climate change as an excuse to promote state control, higher taxes, mobility restrictions, energy poverty, an end to economic growth etc, may wish to email Mr Harrabin and he may change it to reflect your version of the ‘truth.’

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  1. Bruce Cobb says

    Look at all that “C02 pollution” billowing from those smokestacks, and contributing to all that smog. But wait, isn’t C02 transparent, odorless, and in no way poisonous and certainly no part of smog, which is a mixture of ozone, S02, NO2, and CO? That can’t be right though, because that would mean the Harrabin and the BBC are liars. Never mind.

  6. Schiller Thurkettle says

    Someone needs to produce a report showing that CO2 “pollution” is choking plants to death.

    Or, conversely, that CO2 “pollution” is diluting planetary concentrations of O2, thereby leaving us gasping for breath.

    Or, perhaps, how historically vaster concentrations of “CO2 pollution” (not caused by SUVs, etc.) made the planet bloom.

    Made the planet bloom, luxuriantly, before the advent of the human race.

    Yeah, you can tell, I am not frightened. In spite of Luke’s blandishments.

  8. Ian Mott says

    Bollocks vg. If Hansen thinks he has been defamed then he can explore his remedies in court. He hasn’t done so and clearly has not been defamed.

  10. patrick says

    “But wait, isn’t C02 transparent, odorless, and in no way poisonous and certainly no part of smog, which is a mixture of ozone, S02, NO2, and CO?”

    I wasn’t aware that the problem with CO2 was that it was poisonous. Not a very well constructed straw man I’m afraid, the head just fell off.

  11. Bruce Die Hard Willis says

    All skeptics are supposed to punch each other up.

    It’s not a love or Circle sex club.

    Waiting for the snip.

  13. SJT says

    I must say, it would be nice to be able to say to China, “Here, you don’t need to emit all that CO2, we have developed and proven technology that will allow you to have a better life and reduce emissions”.

    Unfortunately, stonewalling on CO2 emissions has worked wonderfully.

  14. drw says

    Australia is still one of the highest “emitters” on a per capita basis – let’s not get too smug ….

  17. Bruce Cobb says

    “I wasn’t aware that the problem with CO2 was that it was poisonous. Not a very well constructed straw man I’m afraid, the head just fell off.”
    Good catch, moron. The point is, CO2 is being called “pollution”, and part of smog, which is composed of, if not poisons, then noxious elements
    which are certainly bad to breathe, and even dangerous for people with respiratory and other health issues.

  18. Ian Mott says

    SJT “we have developed and proven technology that will allow you to have a better life and reduce emissions”. Yes, it is called nuclear power and they are already investing in it big time.

  19. Ian Mott says

    SJT “we have developed and proven technology that will allow you to have a better life and reduce emissions”. Yes, it is called nuclear power and they are already investing in it big time.

  20. Woody says

    Amazing. Or, maybe it’s not. The leftists in this thread, rather than being coming down on China like they have the West, say things like “we can’t talk because we’ve done it, too” and “we taught China how to stonewall rather than change.” I guess this shows their true anti-capitalist agenda.

  21. Schiller Thurkettle says

    Come on.

    Nobody here can possibly believe that the uproar is over China’s CO2 emissions.

    That’s just a proxy. China is building an economy which is challenging the US and the EU for world supremacy.

    If you were a world power, and had about as much of a conscience as Al Gore, you would complain about China’s CO2 as well.

    And maybe impose a “carbon tax” on China’s exports.

    This is just a trade war in disguise. Or, more aptly, dressed in “green drag.”

  22. Woody says

    Reasons not to bring up China’s pollution-updated:

    1. We can’t talk because we’ve done it, too
    2. We’re the ones that taught China how to stonewall rather than change
    3. Complaints about China are based on economic envy.

  23. Ian Mott says

    Reason number;

    4. They have secretly concluded that climate science is complete bollocks but are sensitive to the perceptions of punters and leaders in their major target markets. So they extract maximum leeway from the poverty of their population for as long as it lasts and for as long as they can prop up that myth with a seriously undervalued currency.