China and India help sink global emissions regulation

Washington Times ^ | Friday, July 10, 2009 | Editorial

[JohnRLott]

Thank goodness for the Chinese. Together with India, China helped guarantee that this week's G-8 meeting failed to reach any agreement on limiting carbon-dioxide emissions. Ironically, the actions of the People's Republic should help America avoid going further down the road of over-regulation.

The refusal of China and India to go along with the carbon-dioxide limits should be the death knell for the Cap and Trade bill currently being considered by the Senate. The legislation is a pretty hard sell. Even advocates admit restrictions would only have a small effect -- only a fraction of 1 degree Celsius, a virtually unnoticeable .07 degrees -- on global temperatures by 2050.

Even if a worldwide agreement made sense, an agreement without China, India and other developing countries can be counterproductive. It could actually mean more, not less, carbon-dioxide emissions. With massive increases in energy costs for the United States, Europe and Japan, energy-intensive manufacturing will move to countries without limits. That would negate some of the carbon-dioxide reductions in countries with limits. . . . .

[Steelers6]

Well the Chinese did something right, good for the Indians as well.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Great, so now we now need China and India to save us from our own government. Apparently we’ve outsourced common sense to those nations.

[rfp1234]

Celebrate!

[aShepard]

Thank God that there are some thinkers out there.

AlGore do you hear me???

[eclecticEel]

[cranked]

News flash, given the direction of their economies, based upon the US Global Trends 2025 Report, this was a given.

[bert]

I am cynical enough to believe the teleprompter has been feeding the Brown Clown lines predicting all sorts of green cap and trade balderdash knowing it didn’t matter because China and India and other intelligent nations would never allow it to come about.