China has already overtaken the US as the world's "biggest polluter", a report to be published next month says.
The research suggests the country's greenhouse gas emissions have been underestimated, and probably passed those of the US in 2006-2007.
The University of California team will report their work in the Journal of Environment Economics and Management.
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BBC Website: China 'now top carbon polluter'
The above article was written by the BBC's Roger Harrabin. Any activist using climate change as an excuse to promote state control, higher taxes, mobility restrictions, energy poverty, an end to economic growth etc, may wish to email Mr Harrabin and he may change it to reflect your version of the 'truth.'
Reason number;
4. They have secretly concluded that climate science is complete bollocks but are sensitive to the perceptions of punters and leaders in their major target markets. So they extract maximum leeway from the poverty of their population for as long as it lasts and for as long as they can prop up that myth with a seriously undervalued currency.
Reasons not to bring up China's pollution-updated:
1. We can't talk because we've done it, too
2. We're the ones that taught China how to stonewall rather than change
3. Complaints about China are based on economic envy.
Come on.
Nobody here can possibly believe that the uproar is over China's CO2 emissions.
That's just a proxy. China is building an economy which is challenging the US and the EU for world supremacy.
If you were a world power, and had about as much of a conscience as Al Gore, you would complain about China's CO2 as well.
And maybe impose a "carbon tax" on China's exports.
This is just a trade war in disguise. Or, more aptly, dressed in "green drag."