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U.S. and China Make Landmark Climate Deal
An anonymous reader writes: After extended talks on the issue of climate change, the U.S. and China have reached a landmark accord to curb emissions in the near future. The two countries are the top carbon polluters, so their actions are likely to have a major effect on world pollution levels and also set the standard for other countries. The agreement includes China's first-ever commitment to stop the growth of its emissions by 2030. They plan on shifting a big chunk of their energy production to renewables in that time. The U.S. agreed to emit 26-28% less carbon in 2025 than it did in 2005. Their efforts could spur greater enthusiasm for a new global climate agreement in 2015.
Reader jones_supa adds details of another interesting part of the U.S.-China talks:
Technology products look likely to gain more access to international markets as a result of upgrade between the U.S. and China on a 1996 tariff-eliminating trade agreement that President Obama announced Tuesday in Beijing. The agreement is expected to lower prices on a raft of new technology products by eliminating border tariffs — a price impact that's expected to be larger outside the United States, since U.S. tariffs on high-tech goods are generally lower than those overseas. "This is a win-win-win agreement for information and communication technology industries in the U.S., Europe, Japan and China, for businesses and consumers who purchase IT products and for the global economy."
There you go again with the "it will cripple the economy" lie again...
The green energy industry, that must be a myth to you?
Seriously. How do you even function with this level of reality denial?
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
You pollution and global warming zealots have to realize that "hit to the economy" translates to extreme misery and death to some parts of the population. People die every day of poverty, from everything including hunger that weakens their immune system and allows diseases to kill people, to people becoming homeless and dying of exposure or criminal attack on the streets. Recent research has revealed that living in poverty results in about 6.5 years being taken off the lifespan of those doing it, and if done in childhood, those 6.5 years are still unrecoverable regardless of better circumstances later in life.
The quest for an absolutely pristine environment is not worth the human suffering it causes. Eliminate coal fired electricity and about the only ones that may notice are, reportedly, 2500 or so people in the country with asthma that will no longer be at risk, but 1000's of people get thrown into poverty from the jobs that will be killed and the eventual increase in the price of electricity. Some of those in poverty will die from it.
As for global warming, there hasn't been any for about 18 years now. This is the most egregious hoax perpetrated on the world's people since the eugenics nonsense that inspired the likes of Hitler, only this may be even more devastating that WW2 if these global warming extremists continue to degrade the prosperity of the American people, as well as others around the world. I'd like to make a deal with the global warming nuts, and cease all this nonsense about shutting down power plants and attempting to get 65 mpg out of cars, and instead we'll use all that money to work in geo-engineering mechanisms to do things like removing CO2 from the atmosphere, and then deploy it of necessary. It would save a lot of lives and eliminate a lot of misery that the current approach is costing us.