Comments on: When Worst-Case Scenarios Become Best-Case Scenarios http://www.chinavortex.com/2008/03/when-worst-case-scenarios-become-best-case-scenarios/ China | Business | Economy | Internet | Technology Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:02:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Roger Lam http://www.chinavortex.com/2008/03/when-worst-case-scenarios-become-best-case-scenarios/comment-page-1/#comment-1749 Roger Lam Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:45:43 +0000 http://www.chinavortex.com/2008/03/when-worst-case-scenarios-become-best-case-scenarios/#comment-1749 I've read about this report on Newscientist and I am reminded of it everytime I see a power plant in China. Though you can't say Kyoto Protocol is worthless, you have to wonder how much China's cheap energy will be costing the world in the long run. When you hear just the INCREASE alone is more than UK or Germany's current output, you have to really think twice about the effectiveness of Kyoto Protocol. "The researchers' most conservative forecast predicts that by 2010, there will be an increase of 600 million metric tons of carbon emissions in China over the country's levels in 2000. This growth from China alone would dramatically overshadow the 116 million metric tons of carbon emissions reductions pledged by all the developed countries in the Kyoto Protocol." "...the projected annual increase in China alone over the next several years is greater than the current emissions produced by either Great Britain or Germany." I’ve read about this report on Newscientist and I am reminded of it everytime I see a power plant in China. Though you can’t say Kyoto Protocol is worthless, you have to wonder how much China’s cheap energy will be costing the world in the long run. When you hear just the INCREASE alone is more than UK or Germany’s current output, you have to really think twice about the effectiveness of Kyoto Protocol.

“The researchers’ most conservative forecast predicts that by 2010, there will be an increase of 600 million metric tons of carbon emissions in China over the country’s levels in 2000. This growth from China alone would dramatically overshadow the 116 million metric tons of carbon emissions reductions pledged by all the developed countries in the Kyoto Protocol.”

“…the projected annual increase in China alone over the next several years is greater than the current emissions produced by either Great Britain or Germany.”

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