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Subject: Thre are several probems with this story

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Stephen

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Date Posted: 09:26:33 04/26/07 Thu
In reply to: Oropan 's message, "This ought to be of interest to you do-gooders" on 13:22:13 04/24/07 Tue

>Report: China Will Pass U.S. As Polluter
>
>Apr 24 01:41 AM US/Eastern
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>SHANGHAI, China (AP) - China will pass the United
>States as the world's biggest source of greenhouse
>gasses this year, an official with the International
>Energy Agency was quoted as saying.
>China had been forecast to surpass the U.S. in 2010,
>but its sizzling economic growth has pushed the date
>forward, the IEA's chief economist, Fatih Birol, was
>quoted as saying in an interview appearing in
>Tuesday's Wall Street Journal newspaper.
>
>"In the past couple of months, economic growth and
>related coal consumption has grown at such an
>unexpected rate," Birol was quoted as saying. China's
>rising emissions will effectively cancel out attempts
>by other countries to reduce their own, he said.
>
>Those comments follow the weekend release of a Chinese
>government report detailing the costs of climate
>change but asserting that the country should focus on
>development before cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
>
>Higher than average temperatures meant spreading
>deserts, worsening droughts, shrinking glaciers and
>increased spread of diseases, said the report,
>compiled by more than a dozen government bodies. It
>said emission limits were unfair and would constrain
>China's current energy and manufacturing industries.
>
>China is a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol on reducing
>greenhouse gasses, but is exempt from its restrictions
>because it is a developing country.
>
>The Paris-based IEA advises developed country on
>energy policy.
>
> >href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OMPHM80
>&show_article=1">http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?i
>d=D8OMPHM80&show_article=1

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Re: Thre are several probems with the story as told here	Stephen	09:39:07 04/26/07 Thu
So the Parisi-based IEA doen't know what it's talking about? -- Oropan, 11:43:11 04/26/07 Thu The Parisi-based IEA did not write this article -- Stephen, 13:25:31 04/26/07 Thu They are quoted in the article!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- Oropan, 15:44:20 04/26/07 Thu Yep the only ones accurate in your book are the likes of limbaugh -- Bev, 14:48:30 04/26/07 Thu Here's more... -- Oropan, 15:52:18 04/26/07 Thu