World emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide increased three times faster after 2000 than in the 1990s, putting them at the high end of a range of forecasts by an international climate change.At the same time, a trend toward cutting Earth's energy intensity — the ratio of how much energy is needed to produce a unit of gross domestic product — appears to have stalled or even reversed in recent years.
-- National Academy of Sciences on Monday via Reuters/msnbc
As the clamor for competitive goods continues to push the manufacturing of everything we use to China, the consumer is blinded by distance.
If there was a huge coal fired plant belching pollution in York Township and poisoning the Codorus Creek, residents would be up in arms. However, most everything we use comes from a country with an abysmal environmental track record. In essence, we are all feeding China's huge global warming machine.
On the surface, It appears to be a victory for consumers and manufacturers, who enjoy cheap goods and increased profits, but beneath the clouds of our great biosphere (earth) gathers a great storm of climate change.
It does no good to legislate the pollution of North American based industries if the pollution shifts across the globe. The U.S. consumer loses a job and still suffers from the environmental impact of China's manufacturing methods. In the end, we feed a Communist government craving an industrial revolution that is hard to control internally by the voice of it's people and externally by other countries.
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has been a bad poluter long before it took over producing the world's goods. t will soon top out as the largest militaty equipment maker too.
It's attitude toward it's citizens has long been one of repression
Dont let the communist Democrats get away with lying to you.
Global warming is a fiction designed to bring the USA down to 3rd world class. Ask any ham radio operator if the sun runs in cycles and if it is at it's highest radiation and hottest peak ever, not caused by man
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Who are the "Communist Democrats" and what is their motivation for lying about global warming?
Pollution in China goes unchecked and North American businesses are free to use that market to produce goods to increase their competitive edge.
I don't know, Paul. I think "Wanie" might be on to something there with Communist Democrats and their sneaky ways of bringing us down. I hear they managed to recruit Paris Hilton to promote their evil ways (where do you think she got her "That's Hot!" saying from??). Rumor has it that their next dastardly step is to put brainwashing messages from Confucious about Global Warming in fortune cookies to confuse our scientists.
P.S. How is it that the Communist Democrats managed to dupe our best scientists and climatologists but not our ham radio operators??
I just wish people would expand on these concepts, so that I could can better understand them...
I am still trying to figure out why "liberals" want to conserve and "conservatives" like to consume.