Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 10/22/2008 4:42:50 AM PDT by NRG1973
China's greenhouse gas pollution could double or more in two decades says a new Chinese state think-tank study that casts stark light on the industrial giant's role in stoking global warming.
Beijing has not released recent official data on greenhouse gas from the nation's fast-growing use of coal, oil and gas. Researchers abroad estimate that China's carbon dioxide emissions now easily outstrip that of the United States, long the biggest emitter.
But in a break with official reticence, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other major state-run institutes have concluded that, without dramatic counter-steps, their nation's emissions will tower over all others' much sooner than an earlier government forecast.
The projected leap in emissions underscores the pressures that China will face in looming climate change negotiations, and the immense challenges it would face in meeting any commitments.
By 2020, China's burning of fossil fuels could emit carbon dioxide equal in mass to 2.5 billion metric tonnes of pure carbon and up to 2.9 billion tonnes, depending on varying scenarios for development and technology. By 2030, those emissions may reach 3.1 billion tonnes and up to 4.0 billion tonnes.
That compares with global carbon emissions of about 8.5 billion tonnes in 2007. Emissions are also often estimated in tonnes of Co2, which weighs 3.67 times as much as carbon alone.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
China, thanks for the info. We will be sure to ignore it since the rules are that you can do anything you want.
You're right. And the USA will pledge hundreds of billions of [OUR tax] dollars to help China, India, Kenya and Indonesia cut emissions.
Isn’t global warming a hoax anyway?
CO2 could double! Wow! Their plants are really gonna start growing ... *snicker*
Since the climate has been cooling for a while, perhaps this will help prevent an ice age. (/S)
China, thanks for the info. We will be sure to ignore it since the rules are that you can do anything you want.
Actually, if you work the numbers, even at the high end of the estimate in 2030 (4 billion tons), the per capita output of CO2 would still be less than the US in 2007.
OK, but there are a heck of a lot more of them.
And that is where the developed and the developing world needs to come to a compromise. American's wouldn't want to reduce their standard of living and Chinese wouldn't want to be prevented to raise their own.
In reality, CO2 emissions will get worse before they get better.
How the hell did they pass us? I’m doing everything I can to raise our “greenhouse gas” emissions.
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