Who are to going to believe, Xie or your lying eyes?
April 16th, 2010 by Jim JustA recent post pointed out our actions belied any intention to actually do anything about global warming – we’re not really serious. Here’s another example.
First, Bloomberg reports Chinese president’s special envoy Xie Zhenhua vowing to “vigorously” fight “world scale climate destruction”:
The scale of economic destruction would be equivalent to that of the two world wars and the Great Depression combined” if global temperatures rise by 3 degrees (5.4 Fahrenheit) to 4 degrees Celsius, Xie said. “Human beings and the Earth cannot afford such disasters.
On the very same day, China Daily reports a huge jump in Chinese coal production:
China’s coal output grew 28.1 percent year-on-year to well over 751 million tons in the first quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics said Thursday. . . .
The report estimates China’s total coal production capacity has exceeded 3.6 billion tons.
Channeling Groucho Marx: who are you to going to believe, Xie or your lying eyes?