{"id":268200,"date":"2023-07-18T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T18:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=268200"},"modified":"2023-07-18T20:07:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T18:07:11","slug":"politico-chinese-emissions-are-cancelling-bidens-efforts-to-save-us-from-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=268200","title":{"rendered":"Politico: Chinese Emissions are Cancelling Biden\u2019s Efforts to Save Us from Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even though President Biden is spending hundreds of billions on climate change, \u201c\u2026 those cuts are not enough to offset increases in other nations, particularly China and several midsize economies.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018We are not prepared\u2019: Disasters spread as climate change strikes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The warming planet is causing havoc under the strain from record heat, floods, storms and wildfires. And scientists warn the toll will get worse.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0<\/em>ZACK COLMAN<\/a>
07\/15\/2023 07:00 AM EDT<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The floods, droughts, wildfires and extreme heat sweeping the globe are offering a dose of the climate future that scientists have warned about for decades \u2014 and all the ways the world is not ready.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t like what you\u2019re seeing today, stick around \u2014 it\u2019s going to get worse before it gets better,\u201d said Michael Oppenheimer, a climate scientist at Princeton University.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have a lot of time,\u201d the president\u00a0<\/em>said this week<\/a>\u00a0in Vilnius, Lithuania, calling climate change \u201cthe\u00a0single greatest threat to humanity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even with the U.S. and European climate pollution on a downswing, those cuts are not enough to offset increases in other nations, particularly China<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and several midsize economies.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more:\u00a0https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/07\/14\/we-are-not-prepared-disasters-spread-as-climate-change-strikes-00106439<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Even if you believe in the carbon demon, if China is completely cancelling all attempts to cut emissions, what is the point of wasting money on further attempts to cut emissions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China is never going to cut emissions, so long as the communists are in charge. The Chinese Communist claim to political legitimacy is based on delivering economic development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if the communists fall, there are still a lot of poor people in China, who will demand whatever government replaces Communism prioritises continued fast paced economic development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If China falters, there are vast numbers of poor people who will step in and take their place.\u00a0India, under their brilliant technocratic leader Prime Minister Modi, is racing ahead<\/a>. African nations like\u00a0Nigeria<\/a>,\u00a0Kenya<\/a>,\u00a0Algeria<\/a>,\u00a0Mozambique<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Ghana<\/a>, despite ongoing political and economic turmoil, are quietly well on the way to becoming prosperous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The billions of people who in some cases are tasting prosperity for the first time in their nation\u2019s history will not allow Western climate cultists to stand in the path of their economic development, regardless of how much CO2 their economic development produces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The billions of people who in some cases are tasting prosperity for the first time in their nation\u2019s history will not allow Western climate cultists to stand in the path of their economic development, regardless of how much CO2 their economic development produces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":268206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691821197,691818056,691818076,691818087,691821198],"class_list":["post-268200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chinese-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-co2","tag-global-warming","tag-western-climate-cultists","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-17LO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":363682,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=363682","url_meta":{"origin":268200,"position":0},"title":"Morano: \u2018The Trump Effect is already derailing UN climate summits, canceling EV mandates, disintegrating Wall Street climate group, & Net Zero goals","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"01\/27\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Climate Depot\u2019s Marc Morano said, \u201cPresident Trump's 2nd term could become one of our lifetimes' most consequential presidencies.\u201d\u00a0He added, \u201cTrump is poised to once and [for] all put a stake through the heart of the UN globalist climate change scam. 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