Global Warming: No Kumbaya, Yet

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Global warming was supposed to be such a dire problem that we would all be able to set aside our differences and figure out a solution. It’s not working out that way. Governments are still behaving like governments.
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Any efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions that do not include China will be pointless. According to calculations by University of California researchers, the growth in China’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2010 will be at least five times greater than any reductions achieved by signatories to the Kyoto Protocol. But even if all the developed countries had signed and complied with Kyoto, it would have produced only a 0.15 C decrease in temperature by the end of the century. So maybe China is the country that is behaving sensibly by choosing not to cripple its economy for the sake of unnoticeable decreases in temperatures.