Bad news for the environment.

China has clearly overtaken the United States as the world’s leading emitter of carbon dioxide, the main heat-trapping gas, a new study has found, its emissions increasing 8 percent in 2007. The Chinese increase accounted for two-thirds of the growth in the year’s global greenhouse gas emissions, the study found.

The report, released Friday by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, found that in 2007 China’s emissions were 14 percent higher than those of the United States.

14% greater than the U.S.  Amazing.

The country's policies tune all cylinders towards export.  U.S. companies have to abide substantial emissions rules.  The percentage of total U.S. air pollution emitted by industry is less than half the percentage emitted by Chinese industry.  The result is a regulatory subsidy that the editorial boards refuse to recognize as they scold us for not adopting more trade agreements, faster.

“There cannot be a solution to the global climate change questions without China being integrally involved,” said [Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York].

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Exporting it
written by Bob Powell , June 16, 2008

The U.S. hasn't cut pollution, it's just exported it to China where they're less efficient in the use of energy to build products to sell in the U.S. Similarly, the U.S. hasn't ended slavery; it's just exported it to China, too.

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