DesideriScuri -> RE: The Sucker-In-Chief strikes a deal... (11/13/2014 3:14:47 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri My local drive home radio host put it out that this is going to be a material decrease in the amount of CO2 we emit, but a reduction in growth of the amount China emits. Put another way, the change in our CO2 emitting will be negative and China's will be "less positive." If that's true, and it doesn't look like it is from the article in the OP, that's a shitty deal for the US. Well, it'd be a "shitty deal" except for the fact that if you believe in science then we should have been doing this with or without any deal with China. If we're "making a deal" with China to increase the goals for carbon emission reduction (we were already working on a 17% decrease by 2025), then, yes, it's a shitty deal. We were already working on reducing our emissions. I think our emissions have already been going down. And, the whole thing being a "shitty deal" is reliant on China only having to reduce it's increases, rather than actually cutting emissions, which hasn't been completely refuted or supported yet.
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