Comments on: Climate change failure ‘immoral’ – Oxfam

By: admin

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:22:01 +0000

Tim – I think you are likely correct. China is a huge problem due to their massive wealth, massive poverty and the dichotomy of the two extremes. It is difficult to compare China to any other nation, industrialized or not. This difficulty results in many of the problems in dealing with pollution and world peace.

By: tim maguire

tim maguire — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:32:28 +0000

In this plan, as in so many others, China seems like an unsolvable sticking point. It is the world’s largest contributor to greenhouse gases, it is technically a developing nation and, by any standard likely to be adopted, will qualify for these assistance funds (and will get most of them).

But it is also the world’s third largest economy, a regional hegemon, an advanced nation with a large and growing military and I don’t see Americans or anybody else flinging money at them to get them to go green.

I just don’t see it happening.

By: Tom Kiser

Tom Kiser — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:02:33 +0000

Don’t you just love it when politicians and political gadflies, with their ideological certainties, find a way to involve themselves in scientific questions which by their very nature can never be answered with absolute, 100% certainty?

Once any scientific question has been drug into a political rat hole and been made a political issue, is it even possible to pull the question back out of the political rat hole so it can be given back to scientifically qualified researchers?

When the people plot against the establishment, we call it treachery or insurrection.

When the extablishment plots against the people, we call it politics as usual.