Originally Posted by Jamie Minty
Plus a lot of causes for Gobal warming are natural which we can't stop.
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Did you read anything I wrote? Many of the natural processes that could lead to warming are inactive. For all intents and purposes, we should be heading towards an ice age (which is what they thought would be happening in the 70's), not a heatwave.
Originally Posted by Jamie Minty
Also UK is getting criticized for not cutting enough emissions for the 2012 sites (we now have to pay more). WTF? This rule obviously didn't count in Beijing. Running was made difficult their emissions were so high, I can assure they ain't over here!
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People give China slack because they are, apparently, a 'developing nation'. They have much of the world by the gonads because they are pretty much the industrial center of the world. 90% of everything you own was most probably made there. If China was made to fit to similar CO2 emission levels as 'developed' nations like the US, their capacity for production would go down massively (for a while, anyway), and our corporate overlords would lose a huge source of cheap labour. And nobody would want to disappoint the multinationals.
PS. Here's a very interesting article I found today. Totally off topic, but I love this sort of stuff;
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...html?full=true
Site is a good source of new information, btw. Just make sure it isn't your only source.