Comments on: If Co2 Is Causing “global Warming” And The U.s. Can’t Control China, Aren’t We Screwed Regardless?

By: Jamie R

Jamie R — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:39:57 +0000

Point one- If Global Warming is not a myth then China will not be living ,and neither will we, with caps, because the caps, polar variety, will melt and we will all be drowned.
Point Two- I talked to Santa, The Tooth Fairy, and The Easter Bunny and they say they have “This Global Warming” 5 decade cooling trend under control. Guess we don’t have to worry.

By: Snowman

Snowman — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:50:09 +0000

AGW is a scam…but you bring up a good point.
In global markets, leveraging our domestic economy w/ cap and trade w/o other economies having to bare that burden pushes us out of the market as they can undercut our prices. Cheaper production — cheaper price to the consumer.
If we’re not careful, we’ll push American business overseas. The process started w/ outsourcing labor…further leveraging them could seal the deal.
Scary proposition for everyone else needing jobs.
Understand that’s not to say it wouldn’t be nice to clean up the environment — it just means we should do it responsibly.

By: Holistic Mystic

Holistic Mystic — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:10:00 +0000

The USA is the biggest contributor to mankind’s contribution to climate change. How are we going to stop them? Nuclear power is worse for the environment than coal. If you think coal is bad talk to the thousands of people who got cancer from Chernobyl. By the time China’s contributions to climate change (one of which is CO2) are higher than America’s, we will have woken up and realised that renewable energy is the only way forward.

By: 2ndimpre

2ndimpre — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:28:40 +0000

As the US and other first world countries are the people who purchase China’s (or anywhere) goods, it is very easy to set up a system where goods from countries not sticking to CO2 limits have a large tariff placed on their produce.
It is not fair to suggest every person should not have the same carbon limits – some countries need to greatly reduce their carbon emissions and others need to reduce the rate in which they are increasing.
I am sure most people want to live in a fair and just world, in which case every ones CO2 limits should be equal but the only way to do that is reduce ours AND for growing countries to be more careful about their production and growth.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:16:12 +0000

Well the hope is that China and other developing nations can be convinced or coerced (probably a little of both) to limit emissions. The Chinese are not suicidal.
Global warming is not going to end civilization as we know it, but it could very well cause some of the worst famines and fresh water droughts we have ever seen. And that could, in turn, lead to one of the worst periods of war we’ve ever seen.

By: C.S.

C.S. — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:44:05 +0000

That’s like saying that I should go around shooting people because I don’t have any control over Jim going around and shooting people. It is ridiculous.
There is a China problem, it doesn’t start from such a ridiculous proposition as questioning the scientific consensus.

By: Eric P

Eric P — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:26:24 +0000

we must suffer while China does what it wants, but we’ll feel better inside

By: question

question — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:47:33 +0000

This subject is very debatable and so is global warming. No one except Gore (who is getting rich from this) is agreeing that this premise is true.
Scientists are still arguing over this! Your right we cannot control China even if we wanted to.

By: Nunya B

Nunya B — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:45:07 +0000

global warming is a myth

By: gulp!

gulp! — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:33:28 +0000

Maybe we can extort money from the world to stop CO2 emissions.