Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: China's Resource Grab [Do they hate their grandchildren, or have they all been brainwashed by Rush Limbaugh?]

Things are shaping up whereby the US will again be branded the outlaw in international climate policy, while China quietly gobbles up more and more fossil fuel resources.

Poor urge deep climate cuts; UN says out of reach | World | Reuters

ARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Developing countries said on Wednesday they risked "total destruction" unless the rich stepped up the fight against climate change to a level that even the United Nations says is out of reach.
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"I think to get to minus 40 is too heavy a lift," Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, told Reuters. Such a shift would require "going back to the drawing board" and would economically "come at a huge cost," he said.

But Di-Aping said "in real and absolute terms (the effort) is minimal".