Posted on 09/06/2021 7:54:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
China told Biden climate czar John Kerry that it would march to its own drummer on the issue of global warming. The South China Morning Post wrote that “Beijing has rebuffed American calls to make more public pledges on climate change before a UN climate summit in November, insisting it should follow its own plan rather than bowing to US pressure, according to a person familiar with the two countries’ negotiations.”
Without China’s subscription to the model endorsed by the Paris accord, Biden’s “climate change” program is effectively dead on arrival. “China is the world’s largest [carbon] emitter, accounting for 27 per cent of global emissions.” Beijing effectively wields unilateral veto power over the targets set by climate science should it ignore its mandates or pursue unrelated or separate goals.
The New York Times gloomily blamed politics for the impending collapse of yet another Biden flagship program. “China Tells Kerry Strained Ties Could Sink Climate Cooperation”
Escalating tensions between China and the United States have spilled into their talks over how to stop global warming from hitting catastrophic levels after Chinese officials warned the U.S. climate envoy, John Kerry, that political ill will could undermine cooperation. …
“My response to them was, ‘Hey look, climate is not ideological. It’s not partisan, it’s not a geostrategic weapon or tool, and it’s certainly not day-to-day politics. It’s a global, not bilateral, challenge,’” he said on call with reporters. …
Hopes for a breakthrough in Glasgow rest heavily on whether China and the United States, the two largest emitters of planet-warming pollution, can build momentum. Mr. Kerry said that Chinese leaders briefed him on plans for cutting emissions, but added that any efforts will be insufficient as long as China continues to build the coal-fired power plants that are most responsible
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They’re way ahead of us.
They don’t believe in climate change. I don’t believe in it. No sane people do.
RE: They’re way ahead of us
In terms of what?
Asians are remarkably indifferent to the natural world.
They believe in China first and whatever it takes.
RE: They don’t believe in climate change. I don’t believe in it. No sane people do.
I believe that the Climate is Changing. That cannot be denied. It has been changing for EONS.
What I question is whether we puny humans have anything to do with it.
They recognize that the climate has been changing since the beginning of time and that they can use our belief that humans are causing it to their advantage.
They’re not stupid. Of course not.
The dirty secret? Nobody does except for moron college students.
China doesn’t, Obama doesn’t, the US government just sees it as a method to gain more wealth and power. The Davos crowd flies hundreds of private jets to conferences to discuss it.
Nobody, and I mean nobody, lives as though they believe it.
I really don’t think China is going to follow Al Gore down that rabbit hole.
Agreed...I was using short hand...should have been more clear.
Spot on.
IMO, there are a lot of parallels between the Global Warming people and the vaccine pushers.
It is a religion to them, and those that disagree are heretics who must be eliminated.
No. They’ll just play along until we close our very last manufacturing facility. We’ll be a poor nation because of it.
Did they make the "yappy-hands" motion when Kerry was talking? Because that would have been the perfect response for the BS Kerry was spreading.
everyone knows the climate changes.
China doesn’t believe that carbon dioxide emissions from humans cause catatstrophic gloBULL warming.
and neither does any other country. they they pretend they do.
China believes that Americans are idiots if they believe in “Climate Change”.
China domestically mines in excess of 200 million kg of coal each year.
coal imports:
https://tradingeconomics.com/china/imports-of-coal
” In 2019, 58 percent of the country’s total energy consumption came from coal, which helps explain why China accounts for 28 percent of all global CO2 emissions. And China continues to build coal-fired power plants at a rate that outpaces the rest of the world combined. In 2020, China brought 38.4 gigawatts of new coal-fired power into operation, more than three times what was brought on line everywhere else.”
https://e360.yale.edu/features/despite-pledges-to-cut-emissions-china-goes-on-a-coal-spree
this is a pattern than hasn’t changed since 2011:
“Of the 2.9 billion tons of global coal demand growth since 2000, China accounted for 2.3 billion tons (82%). China now accounts for 47% of global coal consumption—almost as much as the entire rest of the world combined.”
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=9751
so, no, they want to collect ‘credits’ and accolades, but what they do in reality is whatever they want to do
Hell no they don’t believe in climate change. Witness Scary’s embarrassment when he met with them.
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