Exclusive: EPW report on China’s supposed “green” leadership, interview with James Inhofe « Hot Air

This morning, the minority caucus of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee will release a report that attempts to deconstruct the myth of China’s commitment to so-called “green energy.” In fact, China produces less than 1% of its domestic energy in the form of non-hydro renewables. While Thomas Friedman writes paeans to China’s authoritarian regime and its ability to use its command economy to dictate development of renewable energy sources, the truth is that China is heavily invested in coal. In an exclusive first look at the report for Hot Air readers, the report shows that China is on a course to dominate the oil markets in both production and consumption — partnering with our adversaries to get to a dominant position, while China already leads the world in coal

Cancún climate change summit: Campaigners share their views | Jaz Cummins | Global development | guardian.co.uk

Octavio Rosas Landa, from the National Assembly of Those Affected by the Environment (part of Via Campesina)

We have the same message: we don't want the false solutions that COP16 stands for. We don't want Redd. We don't want them to carry on poisoning us with their lies and their false solutions. This is what we said and heard everywhere the caravans stopped, throughout their journey through this country where they bore witness to the environmental and social devastation of Mexico. COP16 only seeks to benefit from the environmental crisis, while people continue to fall ill and to die as a result of these corrupt policies and of the various activities of all these TNCs that are appropriating the air, water, land, forests, seeds, and all the other common goods which make up the patrimony of humanity.