Monday, June 30, 2008

We're Number Two!

Planet Gore on National Review Online
Bad news out of Canada, according to Greenwire. It seems that not only have the Chinese overtaken the U.S. as the largest overall emitter of carbon dioxide, but our wretchedly excessive per capita emissions also have fallen behind other kinder, gentler nations.

China of course is and says it will remain exempt from the Kyoto scheme, much like other top and rapidly growing emitters India, South Korea, Indonesia, Brazil and Mexico among 150 others.

Now, it turns out, those nice, polite neighbors to the north are larger per-capita emitters than Americans are. I wonder if they know that they can't just go around setting their thermostats where they want and driving the vehicle of their choice, and think other countries are going to just accept that.

This can't be good for the global warming industry, predicated on decrying America's rogue, outlier status as a means to shame us into accepting onerous economic restrictions — binding upon us, thanks to our judicial system, while largely ceremonial for those few other countries purporting to also accept those restrictions.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey man, ya gotta cut us some slack up here.

When we call this place "the Great White North" we are referring to our sub-arctic climate, not a layer of California blow.

We have a reason for emitting all that plant fertilizer, oops I mean air pollution.