They’re all made in China;
The growth in China’s emissions from 2006-2010 is equivalent to adding the 2004 emissions of Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia to China’s 2006 total (source). The emissions growth in China at these rates is like adding another Germany every year, or a UK and Australia together, to global emissions.
Canada could not get them included under the same emissions targets we have so as far as I’m concerned China is the problem…always was…and will be in the future.
Any north American business who manufactures or imports from there should be penalized….levy a GREEN tax on the real polluters…and that is anyone who encourages China’s coal fueled irresponsible industrialization and export monopolization by patronizing them.
We can use the green ethic to kill 2 stinking birds with one stone…we can stop the dangerous deindustrialization and trade deficits in western nations and we can limit China’s grotesque particulate pollution by levying a massive green tariff on Chinese goods.
Turn the tablrs on the Kyoto commies who were making windfall profits in the worlds greatest polluter…you don’t penalize the west for their environmental policy…you penalize China for having none.
Make it here, make it better and cleaner and cut this pollution-belching commie monopolist out of the western business cycle.
Green taxes on goods imported from GhG polluting countries.
Brilliant. Love it.
The eco-jihadis can’t complain much 🙂
Let’s even be more direct – just tax the countries whose emissions rate is increasing – so we can keep the US off the list and just pick on China and a few others.
If there ever was such a thing as global warming, I would welcome it so these moronic little squiggly Suzuki light bulbs might work on the outside door light. Those things are useless below 70 F. The high preist of money moving and extraction from your pockets, has just spoken today I see saying Canadians want the govt. to adopt Kyoto, come to think of it, this whole scam smells like the waterless urinals at Sunshine Village, yes we will save water in the lunatic world of environmentalists, but it is gonna make you puke using the facilities.
I switched all my bulbs for the little squiggly Suzuki bulbs two years ago. The claim that they last longer and therefore justify the extra cost I’m finding untrue. I find I’m having to replace them more frequently than regular bulbs. After using up the rest of the two and three packs they are sold in I’m putting back the incandescents I have hanging around. Items made in China and other places with dubious quality concerns are not on my shopping list these days. Not to mention the extra gas I burn taking these flourescent bulbs to hazardous waste depots (as they should be) probably adds more to so-called climate change than they remove.
I’ll bet that the so-called greenies have absolutely no idea how miniscule Canada’s emissions are, when compared to China.
These charts should be on every blackboard in every school in Canada.
And China has scheduled for about 500 new coal fired power plants to be coming onstream in the near future, ie as fast as they can build them.
Why aren’t the lawyer and the geneticist over in China extolling the horrors of global warming to them, instead of telling the Greenlanders that they won’t be allowed to grow vegetables again?
Ditto on the squiggly bulbs…I have to replace those far more often than I ever had to replace the regular incandescent bulbs. Based on my experience, their claim that the bulbs “Lasts on average 10,000 hours” should read “Lasts on average 100 hours”.
And they won’t fit in some of my light fixtures. Junk!
The Olympics are in Bejing this year . The entire world gets to see just how utterly foolish Kyoto truly is .
At the bottom of the above article there’s another link about China’s coal usage plans .
oh its forty below , but I dont give a fk
cause Im going to the rodeo,
its a squiggly bulb left
a squiggly bulb right
but its dark as he11 cuz they wont light.
[quote]Make it here, make it better and cleaner and cut this pollution-belching commie monopolist out of the western business cycle.[/quote]
W.L. Mackenzie,
Do you think that a “Global Warming” trade war with China is worth the risk of a Nuclear solution? Read History! We live in a very dangerous world.. don’t push the wrong buttons unless your willing to suffer the consequences.
I have a few floodlight bulbs that are over 20 years old. I know because I dread the day one burns out that it will take me hours to change it, moving furniture and setting up a tall ladder on the hardwood.
In the tracklights in the kitchen I have half squigs and half normal bulbs to make the kitchen not seem like a mcdonalds.
squigs arent supposed to go into enclosed fixtures like showers.
I suppose we can always buy bulbs from TsuTina when they are banned for the rest of us.
No, Kate, it’s our fault for using coal ourselves. We should feel guilty because WE caused the problems of the developed world. Pollution is just another outrage du jour for the ecoislamomarxist to hate our way of life, even our species.
CO2 emissions is a red herring, regardless of one’s beliefs v.v AGW theory. It should not be news that China is exploding its emissions, and forget that per capital crap, with our cuts puny in comparison, and therefore, insignificant to climate change. Let’s not forget India, and Indonesia, and so on.
Harper would be wise to reframe the environmental argument back to actual pollution, the stuff floating around Bejing. The bonus, of course is by reducing, then eliminating, fossil fuels from the energy scheme, (I mean besides clean air and water and cutting CO2 as well) we don’t have to send our capital to bloodthirsty maniacs; or again, sigh, bail out Europe. The downside is equally obvious – Canada is oil producer. In the short run, we must use our excellent Candu nuclear reactors for the tarsands. In the long run, 50 years or so out, we will have to replace oil as energy commodity.
Why on earth would we subsidize clean energy technology through Kyoto credits? We need to develop it right here to replace the loss of a significant contributor to our GDP.
The US senate committee debate (12/07) is reminiscent of Godfather 111. The democrats oppose any off-ramps because they would make the Carbon Market unstable. They want to provide a guaranteed profit for the “friends” of Gore & justify raiding Pension Funds.
If the Carbon market is that unstable why should we expect new Technology to NOT be suppressed? Its 1990’s technology locked up for the Wall Street gangsters.
What worthless shit heads…postering for Corporate support in 2008. If they actually believe what they are saying.. God Help us
Does Canada still send foreign aid to China? Just wondering that’s all.
Article over at Drudge Report about the air in Beijing. Don’t expect to see any Olympic records broken over there.
Light the way with Fruit Fly Curly lamps….Al Gore approved. Another scam for sure. More costs the average person will have to pick up. Would that be a surprise?
I don’t know about Canada sending foreign aid to China anymore.
What I wanna know is, did we ever get paid back the off-the-cuff unauthorized $1.5 billion loan Paul Martin made to China on one of those there all expenses paid Team Canada business excursions?
It was supposed to be a loan to buy a Candu reactor, but I never heard much about it after that.
Gee, I wonder if Mo was in on for a cut of the action?
China foreign reserves $1.3 trillion nowadays, and the good old Canadian taxpayer was lending them money!
The mind boggles.
And liberal green wussietards were always using china as a perfect example of how we should live with foot pumps and bicycles now the dragon is the big time emission maker whats the eco-wackos to do?
China has 50 times the people.
On a per capita basis you cant compare.
You people need a good dose of logic shot into your brains.