0bamummer is concerned about carbon eating our planet while the Chinese, who have no such idiotic qualms, are eating our lunch.
Dope.
I have a funny story to tell you along these lines… A year ago I did a talk in China at an ‘energy forum’ and at the end of it was invited to be part of a panel discussion. There were about 300 or so people in attendance. The two speakers ahead of the panel were ‘climate change advocates and policy wonks’ from Beijing who worked both for the government (in their equivalent of the Dept of Energy) and a university (in some environmental studies programs). Anyway, there was a fair number of high level energy folks from Beijing at this affair (including one who I would call the Big Boss) and the two previous speakers did their best to follow the line that “climate change is real, it’s happening and we should be doing something about it and in fact, here is what we are doing right now to reduce our CO2 emissions but we should be doing much more”. In the panel discussion afterward, I essentially trashed all climate change propaganda and told them that there was a good reason to reduce energy use because that had impact on their product competitiveness, there was good reason to clean up the air because we all have to breathe…. but as far as climate change, that was a complete hoax. A few hours later, I happened to be in an elevator and who should step in but the big boss himself with his entourage…. He recognized me and through a translator, he said to me “Came all the way from Beijing… heard nothing but nonsense except panel discussion which had the only common sense heard all day”.