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Gavin:
Tol is not telling Watts, Inhofe, Morano or Steve Goddard to do something different. Why not? I imagine it is because he has different expectations for them. Since they post far more egregious stuff, it is clear that Tol is not reacting to all disinformation, just that emanating from Judith. This seems to me to indicate a difference in expectation – and he is explicit in suggesting she has a responsibility that the others do not.
Michael Tobis:
...I think Curry should STFU, or at least stick to such matters, if any, where she has reason for confidence in what she says.
Slipping some “past the goalie” at RC | Watts Up With That?
The point of this posting is that, whatever the difficulties, it is possible for skeptics to post over at RC, so long as we are not too blatant about it, and if we are not too sensitive about our words being edited.
I thought this graphic was worthwhile posting quickly just to show the scale of carbon emissions from China – which is a measure of the scale of growth in the Chinese economy. Europe and the west can continue to reduce emissions – aided & abetted by any Euroland weakness – but global emissions will continue to increase – as long as the Asian economic transformation continues.
Penn State investigation of Michael Mann should be reopened
Money more important to Penn State than the truth?
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Regarding the Warwick Hughes graphic on Chinese emissions growth:
What that first graph shows is emissions growth from China from them taking our manufacturing jobs after we gave them PNTR in Oct of 2000. Take a look at the following graph of manufacturing jobs from the federal reserve:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?s%5B1%5D%5Bid%5D=MANEMP
You'll notice that the largest ever drop in manufacturing jobs starts around the end of 2000 which is when Clinton and the Republican congress gave China PNTR.
I've read that Republicans approved PNTR in order to save American companies from going out of business from not having access to the cheaper labor and hence not being able to compete with cheaper Chinese made goods.
As to why Clinton gave them PNTR, well recall that he and the DNC had been accused of taking illegal contributions from the communist Chinese government back in the mid-90's. In my opinion, Clinton gave China PNTR as payback for those contributions.
That Federal Reserve graph shows the largest ever drop in manufacturing jobs in US history, a roughly 30% (1/3rd) decline in jobs. This decline occurred during the government stoked subprime fueled housing price bubble and masked the decline in the economy.
For those here in the US wondering why the economy is stagnant, well we shipped millions of jobs overseas since 2000. No Republican or Democrat is going to fix the economy unless they can get those jobs back AND put up tariffs against goods made from developing countries that have cheap labor.
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