The world's leading carbon emitter??....I wonder if they have their own version of Al Gore to run around the country and hypocritically tell the masses you can't do this and you can't do that, while sending more carbon emissions into the atmosphere in the process?....Hmmm!.....Remember China?...That huge country that refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty, yet everyone criticizes the USA for doing just the same?......

No question this premise is true. Regarding it's oil and coal-based energy consumption, China is like a freight train out of control, and the nations of the world can't, or won't influence it.

Of course, we are familiar in the with the gluttoness hunger for money and power that leads to disregard for environmental concerns. And we are the main culprits in China's pursuit. We outsource more manufacturing to China by far than any other nation. Our trade deficit with China is astounding. And because of this, China has propped up our economy with a trillion dollar investment. And with all this, they have surplus US dollars to either invest here or elsewhere. Still the average Cinese wage-earner makes little and can hardly be expected to curb his carbon footprint.

It is convenient to blame the Chinese, but their economic progress is largely a creation of ours. When we look at China, we see our reflection.

Maurice Strong must be loving it, and raking in huge profits as well with more carbon credit money flowing into China. This master plan he has with Al Gore as primary spokesman has worked very well indeed for them. Too bad most people are blind to it.

Oiznop, because China does this same, does not absolve the US. Please read my previous post. Simple solution, threaten to pull production from them unless they take the steps necessary to clean up their act; and clean up ours as well. Lead by example. Not a novel concept.

To Chris, I am not sure what you are talking about, but it wouldn't surprise me if they tried to benefit. Still, where do the credits come from?

And to both of you, leave Al Gore out of this. The guy is right on. It seems like he has become the scapegoat for the Skeptical community or Ultraconservatives that always need one. Please don't shoot the messenger!

David A.,

We can't just leave Gore out of it, as he made the decision to place himself in the public cross-hairs. Every word he states from here on will surely be decipherd, bent, twisted and dissected by every group imaginagable. That's just the way the game is played.

He is now, heavily into the political limelight, where he intended to be all along. His alterior motive plan is working for him. There is now some rumblings about his running for President again and he may now have the left to unwittingly put him over the top, thinking he will change the world for the better, for the environmentalists.

Once he's in, the Military, CIA, FBI, NSA, NASA, China, Russia and all the global corporations will show him who runs the planet and he will fall into place like all other puppets and over time, he will be forced to back-track on a lot of what he said in the last few years. The same strings that pull on Bush will be pulling on Gore.

David A.,

There is no simple solution to China. You cannot threaten a country that pretty well owns you financially. China, now has some hefty investments in the Alberta oil sands, which are soon to overtake Saudi Arabia in volumes and future reserves.

There are several large pipelines being constructed as we speak, from Alberta to the west coast, to fill Chinese oil tankers by the thousands annually. The U.S. will be in need of western based oil due to the middle east instability and China will be the ones with the keys to the tap.

There is also speculation that Chinese currency will soon be replacing U.S. currency on the world trade market. Not a good sign for us, eh!

David:

First off, leave Gore out of what? HE has built himself one heck of an enterprising buisness being the mouthpiece for the hysteria that is the idea of AGW. Funny how this happens AFTER he is out of office. We don't need a scapegoat but since he hoists himself on the platform, there you go, someone for target practice. Second, I absolutely love the way that China is held only semi-accountable in this. Why, oh why, does the lionshare of the blame fall to the USA?

I'll tell you why, the USA is the only country with excess wealth that gives a hoot about these causes. Look at Kuwait and the UAE, they are they are the peddlers of the smut that is oil and gas and what do they do to curb the problem they have created? They build islands, in the open sea, shaped like a palm tree. Boy that was a great way to destroy the habitat and think of the energy it took to do it. Hear a single peep out of any AGW proponent? Nope. Know why, cause the Saudis, and Kuwaitis and UAEers don't care a whit.

I see that China has sent a formal delegation a few days ago, to Venezuela to invest more heavily in that regions huge oil reserves through CNPC America Ltd, a major Chinese oil corporation.

They have also, just a few days ago, held a massive, joint industry trade show with Russia, in downtown Moscow, which resulted in $5 billion in contracts between the two countries as a start.
President Putin is excited at the future possibilities.

Some, see China setting a pattern lately, of shoring up and renewing friendships with all of the countries that the U.S. has problems with, in order to gain world dominance to isolate American interests and global power.

China, emerging as the new, much more stringent, world dominant super-power within the next decade is a very serious and probable possibility and could see China controlling many of the West's major industrial firms, coal mines and oilfields.

A few years from now, Environmentalists and politically correct folks will certainly remember how good they had it, when they were dealing with the Bush Administration.