China to Research Global Warming

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2007/feb/06/020603011.html

China will spend more to research global warming but lacks the money and technology to significantly reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are worsening the problem, a government official said Tuesday.

China "lags behind Europe and the United States" in the technology needed to clean its coal, which accounts for 69 percent of its energy output, said Qin Dahe, chief of the China Meteorological Administration.

"It takes time to catch up," said Qin, who served as one of China's representatives to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that last week announced that global warming is very likely caused by mankind and will continue for centuries.

Qin's comments at a news conference Tuesday, the first official Chinese response to the report, came as winter temperatures in China's capital hit a 30-year high, state media said.

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edit: sound familiar????

[eppur_se_muova]

1. China faces more obstacles, but not the one BIG obstacle of a gov't in denial.

We'll end up buying green technology from China, using the money they lend us. Not a sustainable approach.

Just because a gov't is repressive and authoritarian doesn't mean it has to be hostile to the environment. Bu**sh**co has other ju$tification$ than that.