Climate Change Australia – China Pretends It Will Cut Emissions, While Making Sure We Cut Our Throats

“what is unquestionable is that what [warming] we’ve seen is way less than the models predicted. But so much pride and money is now at stake that few warmists dare admit it.”

Hell will freeze over before climate change alarmists admit they got it wrong claiming CO2 as the control knob of climate.

PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt ~

Bottom line: China’s emissions will keep growing. Feeding the global warming scare means encouraging its Western rivals to cut their own growth, giving China a strategic long-term advantage:

Australia’s Environment Minister Greg Hunt has cast doubt on China’s willingness to impose an effective price on greenhouse gas emissions, noting its regional cap-and-trade schemes have given almost all of their carbon credits away for free.

Speaking after reports that China was moving toward an emissions trading scheme, Mr Hunt told Sky News: “A quarter of the world’s emissions are coming from China and that is set to increase by 150 per cent from 2005 to 2030.

“If China takes action to reduce emissions that’s good, but it’s up to each country to work out how they do it.

“I’d be very interested to know what percentage of permits are given away for free; it’s 99 to…

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