China Surpasses US In Greenhouse Gas Emissions, CO2

Inconvenient timing, you could say that. With the upcoming 60's age globull warming luv in coming in July, this is not welcome news if your plan is to try and shame the US into paying confiscatory taxes for the furthering of the socialist state.


Cough, cough, choke, choke, this air is thick. Cyclists pass a factory in Yutian in China's north-west Hebei province.

Why is China excluded from ll these talks about greenhouse gases and globull warming? Because they told the world to get stuffed, they aren't going to do anything about it.

China has overtaken the United States as the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, figures released today show.

The surprising announcement will increase anxiety about China's growing role in driving man-made global warming and will pile pressure onto world politicians to agree a new global agreement on climate change that includes the booming Chinese economy. China's emissions had not been expected to overtake those from the US, formerly the world's biggest polluter, for several years, although some reports predicted it could happen as early as next year.

The world's biggest polluter, the US? Sure it is, only in the minds of the looney left and enviro-wackos -- Find a single US city that is as putrid as the common Chinese city. You want pollution, then you want third world, walk through the streets of a typical third world country, make sure you where boots and don't step in the trash, no telling what bacteria live there. One of the huge benefits of a thriving capitalist economy is not pollution, it is the ability to clean up your messes and not pollute.

The notion that CO2, the stuff every living animal, fish, insect and bird exhales is a pollutant is silly on it's face. I think that's why they are called carbon life form.

But according to the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, soaring demand for coal to generate electricity and a surge in cement production have helped to push China's recorded emissions for 2006 beyond those from the US already. It says China produced 6,200m tonnes of CO2 last year, compared with 5,800m tonnes from the US. Britain produced about 600m tonnes.

Jos Olivier, a senior scientist at the government agency who compiled the figures, said: "There will still be some uncertainty about the exact numbers, but this is the best and most up to date estimate available. China relies very heavily on coal and all of the recent trends show their emissions going up very quickly." China's emissions were 2% below those of the US in 2005. Per head of population, China's pollution remains relatively low - about a quarter of that in the US and half that of the UK.

So the numbers do not include pollution, only CO2. I suggest we decide to declare CO2 not a pollutant, that would solve that problem.

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