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It didnt take long. On July 5, just nine days after the House passed the cap and trade bill (also known as Waxman-Markey) Chinese officials made it clear they are opposed to any carbon taxation scheme. Yao Jian, the spokesman for Chinas Commerce Ministry, said the bill violates basic principles of the World Trade Organization and said that the ruse of environmental protection was being used to protect trade and that it could induce a trade war.
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Dr Tim Norris
on Jan 6th, 2010
@ 6:59 am:
I am very grateful to the Chinese for having torpedoed the carbon tax proposals. Anthropogenic carbon dioxide is not responsible for global warming, or should I rather say “climate change” after the now-debunked IPCC found that global cooling was occurring and tried to hide this fact. Polar ice melting is due to soot deposits, not CO2 increase. Present changes in climate are driven by natural factors such as solar output over which we do not have any control. Without Chinese participation, carbon tax is meaninglees for the World and will thereby avoid a wholely unnecessary carbon tax being levied. I applaud very positively the Chinese position – hurra to China. Rather than wasting money on CO2 sequestration, we would be much better off building nuclear fission reactors, and using the underground formerly oil-filled anticlines for storing nuclear waste. There is enough Thorium in Telemark Norway when blended with uranium to power electrically the World at present energy consumotion levels for 1000 years. The only climate crisis we have is adaptation to naturally-driven climate change, i.e. we need to help countries adversely affected by climate change with generous aid. Even if I am hypthetically wrong regarding anthorpogenic climate change (I am strongly of an opinion that anthopogenic climate change is an insignificant effect if one measures temperatures properly and imprartially), my proposal regarding Throium and the use of formerly oil-filled geological anticlines for storage of nuclear waste would also reduce CO2 emissions in any case. Environmentalists should also bear in mind that Earth’s geological formations are naturally radioactive to a significant degree (e.g. witness the use of gamma probes when boring through geological strata for real-time strata composition analysis).
There is so much muddled and unstructured thinking going on in this World that it makes me dispair at times. The discredited IPCC “hockey stick” global warming graph (Mann/Al Gore) ignoring the Medieval Warm period is just one example of bad science tainted by political and financial interests.