China Begs World for Technology
By Chris Buckley and Gerard Wynn of Reuters with elegant commentary from Those Jerks at Carbon Credit Warehouse.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing is reluctant to set itself international targets to fight climate change without financial assistance from industrialized countries, a senior climate change official, Gao Guangsheng, said on Thursday.
Maybe the U.S. should set the same requirements. “We just can’t afford to ruin our economy, way of life and destroy democracy without due compensation.” If China would just forgive our debts as we forgive those with debts to us.
Gao was speaking days ahead of talks in Bali, Indonesia, expected to launch two years of formal negotiations (ie: posturing, grandstanding and attacking the U.S.) to extend or replace the Kyoto Protocol on global warming after 2012.
He was scathing about industrialized countries’ limited efforts to help developing nations cut greenhouse gas emissions, despite commitments under the U.N.’s convention on climate change to share clean energy technologies.
That’s it! We can share our clean energy technology with China, and China can share their satellite destroying technology.
That had made it more difficult for China to curb emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas blamed for contributing to climate change, he said.
“Only when I know what technology I have can I calculate how much I can reduce emissions; only when I have funding assurances,” said Gao, director general of climate change at the National Development and Reform Commission.
Only when tribute has been paid so China can finish building the world’s largest dam system. Only when we have your money can we consider that we might use it to reduce emissions. Of course we could just use it to help put more reactors in our growing submarine fleet.
“To reduce emissions, technology is a crucial issue. But here for various reasons the developed countries haven’t shown much commitment and there basically hasn’t been any progress.”
I have just the technology to reduce this bureaucrat’s emissions. It’s called a ball gag. But wait, it says “Made in China” on it. You mean China may have some technology they aren’t copping to? Or is it just that they haven’t garnered enough treasure from their protected trade imbalance to continue building up their arsenal and trying to buy American elections? (See also, Clinton/Hsu)
China has set itself ambitious domestic targets to increase energy efficiency and replace high carbon-emitting coal with renewable energy sources like wind and hydropower — although it failed to meet its efficiency target in 2006.
Unfortunately, most of China’s domestic targets are usually Christians. Guess they can’t get rid of enough of those guys to count it as a carbon offset. However, from the sound of things China has plenty of wind. As for hydro, they are just waiting for the check. Please send it soon. Poor China is just a developing country–with nuclear strike capability, space and satellite weapons technology, a fast growing military industrial complex and the ability to threaten the solvency of world currencies. Please, China is begging you. Can’t you help?
“The goals can often encounter upsets. But international commitments can’t be messed about with. China always only makes international commitments that it can live up to. Not just empty cannon blasts. We do more and say less.”
Let us all pause for just a moment to soak up all the juices from the irony of that statement. Mmm. That was rich. Now, let the lobbying begin:
Gao cited the example of previous agreements between China and the United States to transfer clean power-generation technology that he said had been blocked by Congress.
He also recounted a conversation with the Danish environment minister, whom he had asked for assistance to transfer advanced wind power technology to China, but had been told it was a matter for companies, not government.
China wants freebies. China also wants a free pass on human rights, copyright laws, Taiwan, and the distribution of nuclear technology to terrorist states. See? They are sharing technology. Please, won’t you?
“If that’s always the attitude, then how can we have international cooperation?” said Gao, speaking to a small number of reporters.
You western countries really need an attitude adjustment. Just cooperate and nobody gets hurt.
“Developed countries should abide by the demands of the (U.N.) treaty and offer favorable terms, or give for free, the environmentally friendly technology that developing countries desperately need.”
Cue the violins.
December 6th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
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