More good news from China

TheMercenary · 12-28-2007, 05:59 PM

Our great friends to the East would love for us to clean up our act and sign deals on inacting expensive environmental controls as the "developing nations" get a pass...

It is good to know they are doing their part!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/29/wo...hp&oref=slogin

Urbane Guerrilla · 12-29-2007, 05:47 AM

Round One of that stuff was too much even for that great guardian of the Republic's interest, Bill Clinton, to swallow.

Either you're genuinely interested in putting the lid on greenhouse gases -- better burn that methane, 'cos it's about twenty times the greenhouse gas CO2 is -- or your genuine interest is in sandbagging the US economy. The policies set forth will clearly show which, and frankly, gentlemen, I'm not persuaded our power of climate prognostication is all that good. There's still that "Earth will freeze in the future" scare from some decades past in living memory, and atmospheric phenomena are still harder than hell to predict longterm. For instance, how much CO2 increase does it take to kick up the activity of oceanic phytoplankton and their concomitant critters? Earth's original fraction of CO2, comparable to Venus', got precipitated out as calcium carbonate by bioactivity.

Sandbagging the US economy reduces the global economy by one fifth.

And that's all without reading Merc's link, even.

Undertoad · 12-29-2007, 08:54 AM

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And that's all without reading Merc's link, even.

You shouldn't post if you don't read the link.

TheMercenary · 01-01-2008, 06:36 AM

And now for the next installment of China's contribution to making the world become more green and for the developing world to reduce it's "carbon footprint/offsets" while it grows unrestricted.

BEIJING — Every day, monitoring stations across the city measure air pollution to determine if the skies above this national capital can officially be designated blue. It is not an act of whimsy: with Beijing preparing to play host to the 2008 Olympic Games, the official Blue Sky ratings are the city’s own measuring stick for how well it is cleaning up its polluted air.

Thursday did not bring good news. The gray, acrid skies rated an eye-reddening 421 on a scale of 500, with 500 being the worst. Friday rated 500. Both days far exceeded pollution levels deemed safe by the World Health Organization. In Beijing, officials warned residents to stay indoors until Saturday, but residents here are accustomed to breathing foul air. One man flew a kite in Tiananmen Square.

continues {with a great cover pic}:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/29/wo...a/29china.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...growth_10.html

12-28-2007, 05:59 PM	#1
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	More good news from China Our great friends to the East would love for us to clean up our act and sign deals on inacting expensive environmental controls as the "developing nations" get a pass... It is good to know they are doing their part! http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/29/wo...hp&oref=slogin __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

12-29-2007, 05:47 AM	#2
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Round One of that stuff was too much even for that great guardian of the Republic's interest, Bill Clinton, to swallow. Either you're genuinely interested in putting the lid on greenhouse gases -- better burn that methane, 'cos it's about twenty times the greenhouse gas CO2 is -- or your genuine interest is in sandbagging the US economy. The policies set forth will clearly show which, and frankly, gentlemen, I'm not persuaded our power of climate prognostication is all that good. There's still that "Earth will freeze in the future" scare from some decades past in living memory, and atmospheric phenomena are still harder than hell to predict longterm. For instance, how much CO2 increase does it take to kick up the activity of oceanic phytoplankton and their concomitant critters? Earth's original fraction of CO2, comparable to Venus', got precipitated out as calcium carbonate by bioactivity. Sandbagging the US economy reduces the global economy by one fifth. And that's all without reading Merc's link, even. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

01-01-2008, 06:36 AM	#4
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	And now for the next installment of China's contribution to making the world become more green and for the developing world to reduce it's "carbon footprint/offsets" while it grows unrestricted. BEIJING — Every day, monitoring stations across the city measure air pollution to determine if the skies above this national capital can officially be designated blue. It is not an act of whimsy: with Beijing preparing to play host to the 2008 Olympic Games, the official Blue Sky ratings are the city’s own measuring stick for how well it is cleaning up its polluted air. Thursday did not bring good news. The gray, acrid skies rated an eye-reddening 421 on a scale of 500, with 500 being the worst. Friday rated 500. Both days far exceeded pollution levels deemed safe by the World Health Organization. In Beijing, officials warned residents to stay indoors until Saturday, but residents here are accustomed to breathing foul air. One man flew a kite in Tiananmen Square. continues {with a great cover pic}: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/29/wo...a/29china.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...growth_10.html __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

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