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Here’s a light-hearted and lightly edited potted history that was posted on Bolt’s blog today...

China’s Projected CO2 Emissions

What I find particularly entertaining is that even if the USA did cut its CO2 emissions by 2o% by 2030 (to about 4.7 million tons annually), Chinese growth would wipe out the savings in just 1o years (2020) or less.

Germany wants to put its entire country through economic hardship to reduce its CO2 emissions by 30% by 2020. That’s a drop of about 250 million tonnes. China’s growth would wipe out the alleged benefit of that in just a matter of months.

And if small countries like Canada, Australia, Denmark or New Zealand all make their cuts, China’s emissions growth will offset their reductions in a matter of days or hours.