Briefly, Obama succeeded in getting China and India to agree that they need not simply to improve efficiency as they grow, but to make verifiable cuts in emissions. This is a major accomplishment, as it addresses the chief reason why Clinton and Bush refused to submit the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate...
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TokyoTom
on Wed, Dec 23 2009
Filed under: climate change, China, obama, Copenhagen, Kyoto Protocal
The right-wing Business & Media Institute has published a rather confused piece by Chris Horner , senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute , in which Horner, while noting China's progress along the environmental Kuznets curve (as I discuss here ), prefers to wring his hands that...
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TokyoTom
on Sat, Aug 9 2008
Filed under: AGW, carbon pricing, climate change, Pat Michaels, Knappenberger, China, Horner, Kuznets
Sorry; this was too good not to share: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/china_celebrates_its_status_as . China has now outstripped the rest of the world in GHG emissions, as well. Government ownership of (and favoritism to) much of industry, a lack of clear or enforceable property rights and an...
As I noted in my April 15 post, http://mises.org/Community/blogs/tokyotom/archive/2008/04/15/bush-hoist-by-own-petard-prepares-global-warming-initiative.aspx , President Bush has indeed just made a specific policy statement on climate change . There is much in it to discuss - and disagree with - in what...