China passes U.S. as No. 1 in greenhouse gas emissions

[Coventina]

Source: Vancouver Sun (Reuters)

BEIJING -- China's greenhouse gas emissions have caught up with those of the United States and will not fall soon, a top official said Wednesday, while warning of a huge economic blow from global warming.

The comments from Xie Zhenhua, a deputy chief of the National Development and Reform Commission, which steers climate change policy, marked China's first official acknowledgement that it could already be the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluter.

Many experts believe China's output of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas from burning fossil fuels, has already outstripped that of the U.S., for more than a century the world's biggest emitter.

Until now, however, Chinese officials have hedged on the issue and have released no new government data on emissions growth for the past 14 years. Nor did Xie give specific numbers.



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We're no. 2! We're no. 2! We're no. 2!

Just imagine if Gore hadn't had the election stolen from him 8 years ago....

[Zenlitened]

1. Good thing the U.S. is the world's leading exporter...

... of green energy technologies, all because we had the wisdom and foresight to commit to this innovative -- and highly profitable -- path a decade ago.



Wait... where am I? What timeline am I in? The date! What's the date? Who is the president? Oh no, no nooooooooo!!!

[Wednesdays]

2. I read that as "China passes gas..."

I've got to stop speed-reading headlines.

[BanTheGOP]

3. republican party AGAIN responsible...

...because of the exportation of jobs from the US to China in the FIRST place. It is the republicanized economic policies that take away jobs from US citizens and export them to China, where republicanized businesses practically enslave the people to work, with NO environmental protections whatsoever. This is not an indictment on China as MUCH as it is on US republican/corporate repression.

Ban the republican party, migrate capitalism to socialism, and China will NOT be enslaved to our consumer society; hence, the environment in China returns to its pristine state.