Posted on 03/25/2015 1:08:08 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
China’s approach to international energy and environmental policy can be summed up very simply: tell the idiot gwai lo whatever they want to hear – then carry on doing what China wants, regardless.
Fortunately for the prospects of the US economy, it would appear that not every US politician has fallen for the risible line, heavily promoted by the Obama administration and its amen corner in the environmental movement, that China cares every bit as much as the West does about the allegedly urgent need to curb global CO2 emissions.
Two who very much haven’t are Republican senators Roy Blunt (Missouri) and Jim Inhofe (Oklahoma) who have just launched a challenge to the bilateral climate change “agreement” reached by President Obama with China last year, whereby both countries have supposedly made a commitment to reducing their “greenhouse gas” emissions.
Under this “agreement”, the US will cut its emissions by 26 per cent by 2025 while China will increase its “non-fossil-fuel share of energy to around 20 per cent” by 2030.
Perhaps the most important thing to be noted about this “agreement” is that it was never an “agreement.”
An “agreement” in diplomacy-speak is legally or politically binding.
That is why both negotiating parties took care in the finished document never to use that word. Instead they chose the much vaguer word “announcement”, which places neither party under any obligation whatsoever. If China chooses completely to ignore its supposed commitment to reducing its CO2 emissions it is free to do so – not least because the “announcement” makes no provisions for outside inspectors to come and check up on its progress.
But you would never guess this from the antics of the Obama administration which is determinedly proceeding as if the “announcement” were an “agreement”...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Nonetheless, yet another data point (amongst many) that this Administration is run by fools and traitors.
Nonetheless, yet another data point (amongst many) that this Administration is run by fools and traitors.
Fools and traitors THAT control ALL choke points of power..
Federally and in many entire States...
and many/most counties in some other States..
AND are very very good at voter fraud.. ON PURPOSE..
EVEN in some so-called RED States..
and control most media for propaganda purposes..
AND KNOW... most americans and illegals could care less..
AND ride the apathy curve like a wind surfer..
WHO is foolish?... Saul Alinsky was a genius.. Crazy but not foolish..
Anyone who’s traveled in China recently,as I have (several visits...the first in 1980,the most recent being last year),knows that the air there is absolutely unbreatheable even on the clearest days.We can be sure that for every clean,modern coal fired generating plant that the West shuts down the Red Chinese start up a dozen which were designed by the Soviets in the 1950’s.
I think this whole thing is a bunch of hooey but, in the long run we win.
If China wants to kill itself, let em...
“We can always fool the foreigner.” - Chinese proverb
Apart from differing CO2 emissions, neither coal generation with current scrubber technology nor natural gas generation emit significant pollutants.
Unless you are a climate alarmist, there is no environmental reason to switch from coal to natural gas generation. Plus, coal is cheaper per BTU of output.
We are shooting ourselves in the foot.
traitors more than fools.
Obama’s using his base’s desire to be righteous through “being green” to sell out the country and destroy it from within.
“.We can be sure that for every clean,modern coal fired generating plant that the West shuts down the Red Chinese start up a dozen which were designed by the Soviets in the 1950’s.”
The left calls that carbon neutral.
You mean stuff like, "The Ayatollah issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons"?
I understand the meaning of words in Chinese change depending on how you say the words.
Apparently an alternative translation of gwai lo is Men Seeking Men media.
You give the Chinese too much credit.
He was an idiot long before he became president.
“We are shooting ourselves in the foot.”
And reloading. Soon we will run out of toes.
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