A lot of hot air...

And how often do the doom-mongers bring up China?

Carbon dioxide is responsible for about 80 per cent of the world's human-generated emissions of greenhouse gases.

Most of this comes from coal, and China is responsible for 90 per cent of the rise in world coal consumption in recent years. This country is hooked on coal.

From all the noise, you'd think Stephen Harper, or that evil George Bush are the guys we'll really have to keep an eye on, but the reality is a little different...

The latest projections show that China will overtake the United States to become the world's top producer of carbon dioxide by 2009, nearly a decade quicker than projected in previous studies. China will soon produce 20 per cent of all the carbon dioxide on the planet.

So with all this potential for environmental mayhem and the effects on the health of its citizens, China must be a huge proponent of the Y2Kyoto accord.

Wrong.

China and other developing countries are exempt from the Kyoto Protocol's rules for cutting the production of greenhouse gases.

And that's the way things work... in the real world.

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