Cap-and-Trade Is Not Like the Space Race -- Seeking Alpha

If Friedman's view was right, there would be no coordination problem on climate change, since every state would be competing to lower their emissions. Bargaining over climate change would look nothing like the way it looks. It would resemble the space race, which (coincidentally) is the analogy Friedman uses. But bargaining over climate change doesn't look the space race in real life. One might think that this would lead Friedman to re-think his argument. It doesn't.

Is Thomas Friedman "the stupidest man alive" ?

...There are, as you might imagine, a few problems with his argument. First off, he has no evidence that China has actually decided to go green. He mentions exactly two things. (1) An American "solar equipment maker" has opened a research center in China, and (2) A Chinese solar panel manufacturer told him that the party secretary of the town where the company is located told the Chinese business man that he wanted the party to support the business.

Oh my!

China's no Jolly Green Giant | Lorrie Goldstein

When you cover the issue of global warming, you often don't know whether to laugh or cry.

One of the simultaneously scary and hilarious things you're going to see leading up to the latest United Nations conflab on the subject in Copenhagen this December, will be an attempt by climate alarmists to re-invent China as the world's leading nation in fighting climate change.

To actually believe this requires a level of doublethink worthy of George Orwell's 1984, which makes it perfect work for the UN.