India is another big polluter; and, as I understand it, neither China nor India would sign on to or be affected by whatever carbon and GW regulations were put into practice world wide. Though apparently Sect’y John F. Kerry (he served in Vietnam you know) was just speaking with China about same this past week, so who knows, maybe China will change and Kerry will get a prestigious Nobel Award.
One other dumb thing - the environmental wackos have forbidden clearing any dead growth from forests for years, which makes those forests tinder boxes (as we’ve seen with all the forest fires in the west over the years). I think a lot of these regs have been put in by the “(not so) wise ones” on the east coast that have never visited an old growth forest in the western US. Just think of how many toads, slugs, special beetles, White Spotted Owls, etc. (not to mention homes and businesses) they could save if they would allow the deadwood to be cleared.
And another thing about our tree fetish -
Tree branches and power lines are not compatible. If Americans (primarily east coast) want to have electricity all winter they should consider not planting trees under power lines. I would back any agency, local, state or federal, that wrote some common sense regulations addressing our “need” for trees trumping our need for electricity.
Think of the savings of the millions of hours spent rewiring power lines due to fallen branches and entire trees.
Read today that the gigantic solar panels they put in the desert is generating so much heat it’s frying the birds that fly over it!....this after years of Enviroweanies “testing” everything concerning building these and determining it’s ‘safety’ to wildlife and the environment over all!
I can just see the chicoms obeying any pollution rules at all,hard to imagine.