The Reference Frame: China fights AGW by causing it

You may call it "extortion" but the Chinese have the right to emit the HFC-23 if the price of the HFC-23 offsets is set to zero again. The only thing we can say is that this insanity – emitting HFC-23 into the atmosphere that hasn't been useful for anything – wouldn't have happened at all if the proponents of the cap-and-trade schemes were put in jail in time.