China's not going to cut CO2 emissions...

Let's be honest - they aren't going to cut their emissions...neither are the Indians..or the Americans...so, why should we?

Beijing has begun to adopt a more assertive role in global climate change negotiations to head off the development of a regime which it worries could force it to cut emissions and scale back its economy.

China's aggressive posture was on display this week at a UN meeting on climate change in Bangkok, when Beijing's representatives tried to ensure the conference communiqué specifically blamed industrialised nations for global warming.

In recent weeks, China has led an alliance of developing countries disputing the right of the UN Security Council to debate climate change and has suggested the country's one-child policy should be credited for ameliorating the situation by keeping down the world's population.

Beijing's fears of being targeted on climate change were heightened by the statement late last month by an official of the International Energy Agency that China could become the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases as early as this year.

Any money we spend on lowering our emissions will just be wasted. We need to spend our money on adapting to a warmer climate.