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NY TimesBEIJING — ( July 15, 2009) The top American energy and commerce officials called for China to do more to address global warming in speeches here on Wednesday, contending that the country was particularly vulnerable to a changing climate.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu warned in a speech at Tsinghua University, China’s top science university, that if humanity did not reverse the pace of its ever-rising emissions of greenhouse gases, more people in China would be displaced by rising sea levels than in any other country.
If China’s emissions of global warming gases keep growing at the pace of the last 30 years, the country will emit more such gases in the next three decades than the United States has in its entire history, said Mr. Chu, a Nobel laureate in physics.
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said in a speech to the American Chamber of Commerce that China shared a special responsibility with the United States to address global warming. China passed the United States two years ago as the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and the two countries together account for 42 percent of humanity’s emissions of these gases.
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Things are bad (check) It's not all our fault (check) China is a big big problem (check) Do Something! (double plus good).
It's the carbon that's already been released that's the problem Stoopid. If we were starting all over, this would be easy.
“Fifty years from now, we do not want the world to lay the blame for environmental catastrophe at the feet of China,” Mr. Locke said. Here is the real pot and kettle moment. In fifty years time, the world, such as it is, won't be writing an apology for the United States. Think of the grandchildren! Indeed.
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