China Tells Trump That Climate Change Is No Hoax It Invented

[highplainsdem]

Source: Bloomberg

China couldn’t have invented global warming as a hoax to harm U.S. competitiveness because it was Donald Trump’s Republican predecessors who started climate negotiations in the 1980s, China’s Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin said.

U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush supported the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in initiating global warming talks even before China knew that negotiations to cut pollution were starting, Liu told reporters at United Nations talks on Wednesday in Marrakech, Morocco.

Ministers and government officials from almost 200 countries gathered in Marrakech this week are awaiting a decision by President-elect Trump on whether he’ll pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement to tackle climate change. The tycoon tweeted in 2012 that the concept of global warming “was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” China’s envoy rejected that view.

“If you look at the history of climate change negotiations, actually it was initiated by the IPCC with the support of the Republicans during the Reagan and senior Bush administration during the late 1980s,” Liu told reporters during an hour-long briefing.

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Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-16/china-tells-trump-that-climate-change-is-no-hoax-it-invented

[Brother Buzz]

1. Wrong

[Skinner]

2. That just proves it's a hoax!

Because if China is perpetrating a hoax, of course they're going to say it isn't a hoax.

[truthisfreedom]

3. Wow, excellent use of the English language, sir! Makes our child president look like a twerp.

Twerp!

[Judi Lynn]

4. They should send a little bird to explain it to him:

A bird in China that looks like Trump is now a viral sensation



By Ishaan Tharoor
November 15

President-elect Donald Trump may be willing to start a trade war with Beijing, but his political ascension has been as much a source of mirth in China as disquiet.

The latest exhibit: A local journalist in the eastern city of Hangzhou noticed that a golden pheasant in Hangzhou Safari Park had plumage on its head that was remarkably similar to Trump's blond coif. Pictures of the bird — a 5-year-old known as “Little Red” — soon went viral on Chinese social media.

The supposed similarity had Chinese netizens in stitches, as Shanghaiist noted.

“Trump to wife: 'Honestly, I've never even been to Hangzhou!'" quipped one commenter on social media.

More:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/15/a-bird-in-china-that-looks-like-trump-is-now-a-viral-sensation/

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[Solly Mack]

5. Oh, my. Expect some late night tweeting by the Grating Orange Hype.

[ronnie624]

6. Surely any expectations of US leadership have now been dashed.

The GOP is the only major political party on earth that utterly rejects the science on global climate change. Trump has made perfectly clear that he is a denialist as well as an anti-intellectual. Any progress on arresting and mitigating ecological damage, has now been set back decades.