China and the Democrats

At the bottom of this story is a link to a story claiming that the Chinese government wants the United States to move forward with climite change legislation, some form of cap & trade, in spite of the science not being settled on whether humans actually cause global warming.

While it may be surprising that the Chinese, who build coal-fired power plants seemingly every day, want the United States to act, it should not be. The Chinese economy has been growing by leaps and bounds in the last several years and certainly the Chinese see an opportunity to catch up with the US economically. This assumption, that the Chinese hope to compete with the US economically, is the key to understanding why they hope the US will curb its carbon emissions.

Carbon based fuels produce the vast majority of energy in the US and the US economy relies on a steady stream of energy to sustain itself and to grow. Any legislation that attempts to slow carbon emissions will also slow economic growth. Green energy, whatever that may consist of, is certainly not reliaible or plentiful enough to pick up the slack that would surely result from legislation that cripples carbon based energy.

The Chinese realize that this is the case, which is why they support the US crippling its own economy for the sake of the Earth. Obviously the Chinese don't care about global warming. If they did, they would slow down the proliferation of carbon based energy in their nation. What the Chinese care about is slowing the US economy to make it easier for China to catch up.

Democrats want to pass cap & trade legislation to help "save the Earth." China wants the Democrats to pass cap & trade, even though the science isn't settled according to the Chinese, to cripple the US economy. Politics certainly makes for strange bedfellows...

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