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EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA |
EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA
The Daily Telegraph, 5 June 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/05/wchina105.xml
By Richard Spencer in Beijing
The developing world's resistance to Western-led initiatives over
climate change stepped up yesterday when China rejected the European
Union's key global warming target.
Unveiling its own long-awaited "Climate Change Action Plan", the
Chinese government said the EU's goal of keeping a rise in global
temperatures to within two degrees centigrade was in need of more
work.
"I fear this lacks a scientific basis," said Ma Kai, the minister in
charge of China's chief economic planning body, the National
Development and Reform Commission.
China has already given notice that it will reject any calls for a
mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions at the G8 meeting of major
economic powers in Germany this week.
India, which like China is not a member of the G8 but attends as a
representative of major emerging economies, has also rejected
emissions caps. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, a third
member of the same "developing nation club", has meanwhile attacked a
proposal by President George W Bush for a summit of 15 polluting
nations to come up with a global climate change plan by the end of
next year.
Developing countries supported the Kyoto accord on global warming
partly because it set them no clear targets for their contribution to
the fight against global warming. All argue that with per capita
emissions far lower than the West's, they should be allowed to first
focus on development and the environment later.
China has become increasingly defensive since the International Energy
Agency reported that it could overtake the United States this year as
the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases.
The goals which China announced yesterday do not differ from existing
targets, several of which are not yet being met.
Among them is a plan to improve energy intensity - the consumption of
energy per unit of gross domestic product - by 20 per cent from 2005
to 2010.
Given that its GDP is rising by an average of about 10 per cent per
year, even that figure would only slow the growth of energy use, not
cut it.
Last year, the reduction in China was only 1.2 per cent, far short of
the four per cent needed every year to meet its stated goal.
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There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Celibacy in healthy human beings is a form of
insanity. -- Captain Compassion
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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| User: "Cory Bhreckan" |
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| Title: Re: EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA |
05 Jun 2007 09:53:29 AM |
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Captain Compassion wrote:
EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA
The Daily Telegraph, 5 June 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/05/wchina105.xml
By Richard Spencer in Beijing
The developing world's resistance to Western-led initiatives over
climate change stepped up yesterday when China rejected the European
Union's key global warming target.
Unveiling its own long-awaited "Climate Change Action Plan", the
Chinese government said the EU's goal of keeping a rise in global
temperatures to within two degrees centigrade was in need of more
work.
"I fear this lacks a scientific basis," said Ma Kai, the minister in
charge of China's chief economic planning body, the National
Development and Reform Commission.
You're using a Communist politician to try to prove a scientific point?
Wow! You guys sure are getting desperate. The argument's over, you guys
lost, get over it.
--
"For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall
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| User: "Jerry Kraus" |
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| Title: Re: EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA |
05 Jun 2007 10:35:44 AM |
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On Jun 5, 9:53 am, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net>
wrote:
Captain Compassion wrote:
EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA
The Daily Telegraph, 5 June 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/05/wchin...
By Richard Spencer in Beijing
The developing world's resistance to Western-led initiatives over
climate change stepped up yesterday when China rejected the European
Union's key global warming target.
Unveiling its own long-awaited "Climate Change Action Plan", the
Chinese government said the EU's goal of keeping a rise in global
temperatures to within two degrees centigrade was in need of more
work.
"I fear this lacks a scientific basis," said Ma Kai, the minister in
charge of China's chief economic planning body, the National
Development and Reform Commission.
You're using a Communist politician to try to prove a scientific point?
Wow! You guys sure are getting desperate. The argument's over, you guys
lost, get over it.
--
"For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
Do you global warming nuts have ANYTHING other than silly rhetoric? Do
you care about anything other than silly rhetoric?
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| User: "Jerry Kraus" |
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| Title: Re: EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA |
05 Jun 2007 10:04:44 AM |
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On Jun 5, 9:53 am, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net>
wrote:
Captain Compassion wrote:
EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA
The Daily Telegraph, 5 June 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/05/wchin...
By Richard Spencer in Beijing
The developing world's resistance to Western-led initiatives over
climate change stepped up yesterday when China rejected the European
Union's key global warming target.
Unveiling its own long-awaited "Climate Change Action Plan", the
Chinese government said the EU's goal of keeping a rise in global
temperatures to within two degrees centigrade was in need of more
work.
"I fear this lacks a scientific basis," said Ma Kai, the minister in
charge of China's chief economic planning body, the National
Development and Reform Commission.
You're using a Communist politician to try to prove a scientific point?
Wow! You guys sure are getting desperate. The argument's over, you guys
lost, get over it.
--
"For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
You really have to make up your mind about whether the Chinese are
communists or capitalists. They seem to be capitalists when you agree
with them, and communists when you don't!
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| User: "Cory Bhreckan" |
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| Title: Re: EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA |
05 Jun 2007 10:38:55 AM |
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Jerry Kraus wrote:
On Jun 5, 9:53 am, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net>
wrote:
Captain Compassion wrote:
EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA
The Daily Telegraph, 5 June 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/05/wchin...
By Richard Spencer in Beijing
The developing world's resistance to Western-led initiatives over
climate change stepped up yesterday when China rejected the European
Union's key global warming target.
Unveiling its own long-awaited "Climate Change Action Plan", the
Chinese government said the EU's goal of keeping a rise in global
temperatures to within two degrees centigrade was in need of more
work.
"I fear this lacks a scientific basis," said Ma Kai, the minister in
charge of China's chief economic planning body, the National
Development and Reform Commission.
You're using a Communist politician to try to prove a scientific point?
Wow! You guys sure are getting desperate. The argument's over, you guys
lost, get over it.
--
"For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
You really have to make up your mind about whether the Chinese are
communists or capitalists. They seem to be capitalists when you agree
with them, and communists when you don't!
You seem to think that the two are mutually exclusive. We have a
capitalist economy, Saudi Arabia has a capitalist economy, China has a
capitalist economy. Do we have the same form of government as Saudi
Arabia and China? China has the least restrictive market economy (free
market), as a result they are seriously damaging their environment and
shipping poisonous food products and medicines overseas (to us and others).
--
"For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall
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| User: "Jerry Kraus" |
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| Title: Re: EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA |
05 Jun 2007 10:51:42 AM |
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On Jun 5, 10:38 am, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net>
wrote:
Jerry Kraus wrote:
On Jun 5, 9:53 am, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net>
wrote:
Captain Compassion wrote:
EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA
The Daily Telegraph, 5 June 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/05/wchin...
By Richard Spencer in Beijing
The developing world's resistance to Western-led initiatives over
climate change stepped up yesterday when China rejected the European
Union's key global warming target.
Unveiling its own long-awaited "Climate Change Action Plan", the
Chinese government said the EU's goal of keeping a rise in global
temperatures to within two degrees centigrade was in need of more
work.
"I fear this lacks a scientific basis," said Ma Kai, the minister in
charge of China's chief economic planning body, the National
Development and Reform Commission.
You're using a Communist politician to try to prove a scientific point?
Wow! You guys sure are getting desperate. The argument's over, you guys
lost, get over it.
--
"For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
You really have to make up your mind about whether the Chinese are
communists or capitalists. They seem to be capitalists when you agree
with them, and communists when you don't!
You seem to think that the two are mutually exclusive. We have a
capitalist economy, Saudi Arabia has a capitalist economy, China has a
capitalist economy. Do we have the same form of government as Saudi
Arabia and China? China has the least restrictive market economy (free
market), as a result they are seriously damaging their environment and
shipping poisonous food products and medicines overseas (to us and others).
--
"For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
The Chinese have terrible environmental problems for the same reason
the rest of the world does. Too many people! We live on an
overpopulated planet. Rather than focusing on silly pseudo-
technologies like wind and solar power, which solve nothing, we should
actually develop controlled nuclear fusion. Rather than paying
professional physicists huge salaries to play with mathematical
models, we should have private inventors actually experimenting with
practical models for nuclear fusion reactors. Nuclear fusion would
give us unlimited clean energy. Nuclear fusion would open up the
entire solar system, and possibly the stars themselves, to human
colonization. Stop thinking so small! Stop being afraid!
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| User: "Cory Bhreckan" |
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| Title: Re: EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA |
05 Jun 2007 11:18:27 AM |
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Jerry Kraus wrote:
On Jun 5, 10:38 am, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net>
wrote:
Jerry Kraus wrote:
On Jun 5, 9:53 am, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net>
wrote:
Captain Compassion wrote:
EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA
The Daily Telegraph, 5 June 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/05/wchin...
By Richard Spencer in Beijing
The developing world's resistance to Western-led initiatives over
climate change stepped up yesterday when China rejected the European
Union's key global warming target.
Unveiling its own long-awaited "Climate Change Action Plan", the
Chinese government said the EU's goal of keeping a rise in global
temperatures to within two degrees centigrade was in need of more
work.
"I fear this lacks a scientific basis," said Ma Kai, the minister in
charge of China's chief economic planning body, the National
Development and Reform Commission.
You're using a Communist politician to try to prove a scientific point?
Wow! You guys sure are getting desperate. The argument's over, you guys
lost, get over it.
--
"For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
You really have to make up your mind about whether the Chinese are
communists or capitalists. They seem to be capitalists when you agree
with them, and communists when you don't!
You seem to think that the two are mutually exclusive. We have a
capitalist economy, Saudi Arabia has a capitalist economy, China has a
capitalist economy. Do we have the same form of government as Saudi
Arabia and China? China has the least restrictive market economy (free
market), as a result they are seriously damaging their environment and
shipping poisonous food products and medicines overseas (to us and others).
--
"For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
The Chinese have terrible environmental problems for the same reason
the rest of the world does. Too many people!
People aren't forced to produce industrial waste and dump it in the
nearest river. They do it out of greed.
We live on an
overpopulated planet. Rather than focusing on silly pseudo-
technologies like wind and solar power, which solve nothing, we should
actually develop controlled nuclear fusion. Rather than paying
professional physicists huge salaries to play with mathematical
models, we should have private inventors actually experimenting with
practical models for nuclear fusion reactors.
Private inventors are free to invent whatever they want.
Nuclear fusion would
give us unlimited clean energy.
Nuclear fusion is not that difficult to achieve, we have been able to
fuse hydrogen to helium since 1945. The problem is the mushroom cloud
and destruction.
Nuclear fusion would open up the
entire solar system, and possibly the stars themselves, to human
colonization. Stop thinking so small! Stop being afraid!
--
"For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall
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| User: "Jerry Kraus" |
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| Title: Re: EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA |
05 Jun 2007 12:29:01 PM |
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On Jun 5, 11:18 am, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net>
wrote:
Jerry Kraus wrote:
On Jun 5, 10:38 am, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net>
wrote:
Jerry Kraus wrote:
On Jun 5, 9:53 am, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net>
wrote:
Captain Compassion wrote:
EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA
The Daily Telegraph, 5 June 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/05/wchin...
By Richard Spencer in Beijing
The developing world's resistance to Western-led initiatives over
climate change stepped up yesterday when China rejected the European
Union's key global warming target.
Unveiling its own long-awaited "Climate Change Action Plan", the
Chinese government said the EU's goal of keeping a rise in global
temperatures to within two degrees centigrade was in need of more
work.
"I fear this lacks a scientific basis," said Ma Kai, the minister in
charge of China's chief economic planning body, the National
Development and Reform Commission.
You're using a Communist politician to try to prove a scientific point?
Wow! You guys sure are getting desperate. The argument's over, you guys
lost, get over it.
--
"For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
You really have to make up your mind about whether the Chinese are
communists or capitalists. They seem to be capitalists when you agree
with them, and communists when you don't!
You seem to think that the two are mutually exclusive. We have a
capitalist economy, Saudi Arabia has a capitalist economy, China has a
capitalist economy. Do we have the same form of government as Saudi
Arabia and China? China has the least restrictive market economy (free
market), as a result they are seriously damaging their environment and
shipping poisonous food products and medicines overseas (to us and others).
--
"For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
The Chinese have terrible environmental problems for the same reason
the rest of the world does. Too many people!
People aren't forced to produce industrial waste and dump it in the
nearest river. They do it out of greed.
We live on an
overpopulated planet. Rather than focusing on silly pseudo-
technologies like wind and solar power, which solve nothing, we should
actually develop controlled nuclear fusion. Rather than paying
professional physicists huge salaries to play with mathematical
models, we should have private inventors actually experimenting with
practical models for nuclear fusion reactors.
Private inventors are free to invent whatever they want.
Nuclear fusion would
give us unlimited clean energy.
Nuclear fusion is not that difficult to achieve, we have been able to
fuse hydrogen to helium since 1945. The problem is the mushroom cloud
and destruction.
Nuclear fusion would open up the
entire solar system, and possibly the stars themselves, to human
colonization. Stop thinking so small! Stop being afraid!
--
"For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
As I have repeatedly pointed out, a nanotechnological approach to
controlled nuclear fusion reactors -- also known as "inertial
containment", and, not coincidentally classified by the United States
Department of Defence -- would not create a mushroom cloud or
destruction. Just free, clean energy.
Inventors sometimes need some encouragement. Information and money,
for example. Prize awards for demonstrated inventions of value, since
marketing can be very expensive. That kind of thing.
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| User: "Captain Compassion" |
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| Title: Re: EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA |
05 Jun 2007 12:29:15 PM |
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On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:38:55 GMT, Cory Bhreckan
<coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> wrote:
Jerry Kraus wrote:
On Jun 5, 9:53 am, Cory Bhreckan <coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net>
wrote:
Captain Compassion wrote:
EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA
The Daily Telegraph, 5 June 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/05/wchin...
By Richard Spencer in Beijing
The developing world's resistance to Western-led initiatives over
climate change stepped up yesterday when China rejected the European
Union's key global warming target.
Unveiling its own long-awaited "Climate Change Action Plan", the
Chinese government said the EU's goal of keeping a rise in global
temperatures to within two degrees centigrade was in need of more
work.
"I fear this lacks a scientific basis," said Ma Kai, the minister in
charge of China's chief economic planning body, the National
Development and Reform Commission.
You're using a Communist politician to try to prove a scientific point?
Wow! You guys sure are getting desperate. The argument's over, you guys
lost, get over it.
--
"For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
You really have to make up your mind about whether the Chinese are
communists or capitalists. They seem to be capitalists when you agree
with them, and communists when you don't!
You seem to think that the two are mutually exclusive. We have a
capitalist economy, Saudi Arabia has a capitalist economy, China has a
capitalist economy. Do we have the same form of government as Saudi
Arabia and China? China has the least restrictive market economy (free
market), as a result they are seriously damaging their environment and
shipping poisonous food products and medicines overseas (to us and others).
In both China and Saudi Arabia much of the commanding heights of the
economies are controlled by the state. Who owns the Oil in Saudi
Arabia? Who owns the natural resources and agriculture in China?
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There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Celibacy in healthy human beings is a form of
insanity. -- Captain Compassion
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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| User: "Captain Compassion" |
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05 Jun 2007 12:24:15 PM |
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On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:53:29 GMT, Cory Bhreckan
<coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net> wrote:
Captain Compassion wrote:
EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA
The Daily Telegraph, 5 June 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/05/wchina105.xml
By Richard Spencer in Beijing
The developing world's resistance to Western-led initiatives over
climate change stepped up yesterday when China rejected the European
Union's key global warming target.
Unveiling its own long-awaited "Climate Change Action Plan", the
Chinese government said the EU's goal of keeping a rise in global
temperatures to within two degrees centigrade was in need of more
work.
"I fear this lacks a scientific basis," said Ma Kai, the minister in
charge of China's chief economic planning body, the National
Development and Reform Commission.
You're using a Communist politician to try to prove a scientific point?
Wow! You guys sure are getting desperate. The argument's over, you guys
lost, get over it.
And you are using a failed politician to prove yours? How can anyone
guarantee that the that global temperature can be steered to such an
extent any kind of artificial goal can be met?
You might as well scream at the sun.
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There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Celibacy in healthy human beings is a form of
insanity. -- Captain Compassion
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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| User: "Jerry Kraus" |
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05 Jun 2007 09:41:21 AM |
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On Jun 5, 8:26 am, Captain Compassion <dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net>
wrote:
EU CLIMATE TARGET LACKS SCIENTIFIC BASIS, SAYS CHINA
The Daily Telegraph, 5 June 2007http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/05/wchin...
By Richard Spencer in Beijing
The developing world's resistance to Western-led initiatives over
climate change stepped up yesterday when China rejected the European
Union's key global warming target.
Unveiling its own long-awaited "Climate Change Action Plan", the
Chinese government said the EU's goal of keeping a rise in global
temperatures to within two degrees centigrade was in need of more
work.
"I fear this lacks a scientific basis," said Ma Kai, the minister in
charge of China's chief economic planning body, the National
Development and Reform Commission.
China has already given notice that it will reject any calls for a
mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions at the G8 meeting of major
economic powers in Germany this week.
India, which like China is not a member of the G8 but attends as a
representative of major emerging economies, has also rejected
emissions caps. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, a third
member of the same "developing nation club", has meanwhile attacked a
proposal by President George W Bush for a summit of 15 polluting
nations to come up with a global climate change plan by the end of
next year.
Developing countries supported the Kyoto accord on global warming
partly because it set them no clear targets for their contribution to
the fight against global warming. All argue that with per capita
emissions far lower than the West's, they should be allowed to first
focus on development and the environment later.
China has become increasingly defensive since the International Energy
Agency reported that it could overtake the United States this year as
the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases.
The goals which China announced yesterday do not differ from existing
targets, several of which are not yet being met.
Among them is a plan to improve energy intensity - the consumption of
energy per unit of gross domestic product - by 20 per cent from 2005
to 2010.
Given that its GDP is rising by an average of about 10 per cent per
year, even that figure would only slow the growth of energy use, not
cut it.
Last year, the reduction in China was only 1.2 per cent, far short of
the four per cent needed every year to meet its stated goal.
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There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
Celibacy in healthy human beings is a form of
insanity. -- Captain Compassion
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
Joseph R. Darancette
dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net
Confucious says, heed not the fool with his hand in your pocket and
his head in the sand.
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