Interesting. It appears tweets have resounding implications,a t least when you become president elect. Apparently, Jina is takign Trump to task for his tweet from years ago accusing the Jinese of inventing climate change. They did respond by pointing out it was actually the vaunted Reagan that embarked on the discussions regarding climate change, so why are they responsible for it in the tweets of Trump? Luckily, a grown up, Kerry, is pointing out to folks that sometimes election rhetoric softens when one is in office. http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/16/13653732/china-climate-change-hoax-donald-trump-morocco In 2012, Donald Trump tweeted that climate change was a concept invented by China to make US businesses less competitive. Four years later, Trump was elected president of the United States and so China decided to address the preposterous claim, telling the president-elect that China didnt concoct the global warming hoax. Chinas vice foreign minister Liu Zhenmin told reporters today that China cant be blamed because Trumps Republican predecessors Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush started climate negotiations in the 1980s before China knew that such negotiations were taking place, according to Bloomberg. So the Chinese minister seems to be asking Trump: if previous US presidents in your party have acknowledged climate change and decided to address it, why are you blaming China? "China didnt concoct the global warming hoax" Liu was in Marrakech, Morocco, where officials from almost 200 countries are at a climate conference discussing the implementation of the Paris climate agreement. He was referring to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was formed by the United Nations in the 1980s to address human-made climate change. The IPCC was supported by both Republican presidents Regan and Bush senior. At the conference, US Secretary of State John Kerry tried to quell anxieties regarding the USs commitments to the Paris deal, according to Reuters. (The US is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gasses after China.) "While I can't stand here and speculate about what policies our president-elect will pursue, I will tell you this: in the time that I have spent in public life, one of the things I've learned is that some issues look a little bit different when you're actually in office compared to when you're on the campaign trail," Kerry said. "US support is essential." Trump has said that he would pull the US out of the Paris deal. His stances over climate change have also left many climate scientists worried about what his election would mean for research and the future of the country. For its part, China said it will keep adhering to the agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions and urged Trump to reconsider his stances, according to Reuters. "As the largest developed economy in the world, US support is essential, Liu said. We have to expect they will take a smart and wise decisio
China is correct India seems to be in the lead now for air polution http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/en...hs-due-to-pollution-report/article9353459.ece According to a Greenpeace India report released here on Wednesday, India overtook China in the number of deaths caused by air pollution last year. Analysing the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) data compiled by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle, the report found that India had 3,283 premature deaths due to ambient air pollution every day, as opposed to China’s 3,233 per day. but China is still right up there http://www.boredpanda.com/pollution-china/ China has some stunningly beautiful natural landscapes, but they may not count for much when, in other parts of the country, pollution runs totally unchecked. These shocking photos show what severe pollution people have to deal with in some parts of China. Beijing and other parts of China have already become notorious for their incessant clouds of smog, which present very real health risks to anyone not wearing dust masks. Unregulated dumping in various rivers throughout China is fairly common, as many of the photos in this series help illustrate.
Granny says, "Dat's right... ... alla dem Chinese people... ... burnin' alla dat coal... ... is why alla ice caps is meltin'.
