>> They didn’t start ramping up until about 2001 when China joined the World Trade Organization, and that gave it access to the world’s markets and that drove their economic boom, particularly focused on producing goods for exports,” said Andrew, who also participated in the Global Carbon Budget study. “There was already a problem before China came along. So, effectively, China did not create the problem.” …
They make excuses because they bow to Big China’s production capabilities.
Mao instituted a program in the 1950’s which had people create tens of thousands, if not more, small smelting furnaces in their yards and neighborhoods.
According to this article (A term I use lightly), all the carbon dioxide produced from these home-grown furnaces is still in the atmosphere, now joined by Red China’s modern manufacturing facilities (many of which lack basic CO2 capturing features).
Also you have hundreds of millions of Chinese people who smoke cigarettes and pipes, and have for hundreds of years, if not more. Add this CO2, Carbon Monoxide and Methane discharge to the atmosphere and you get high readings.
An article in “Scientific American”? Retitle this magazine as “Scientific Un-American”. They’ve been that way for decades.