Tell It To China

Stephen Hayward and Kenneth Green, after an exhaustive recap of the rhetoric of the Medeival Warm Period Denialists^TM, attempt to figure out why:

Desperation is the chief cause for this campaign of intimidation. The Kyoto accords are failing to curtail greenhouse gas emissions in a serious way, and although it is convenient to blame Bush, anyone who follows the Kyoto evasions of the Europeans knows better. The Chinese will soon eclipse the United States as world's largest greenhouse gas emitter, depriving the gas-rationers of one of their favorite sticks for beating up Americans. The economics of steep, near-term emissions cuts are forbidding--though that's one consensus the climate crusaders ignore. Robert Samuelson nailed it in his syndicated column last week: "Don't be fooled. The dirty secret about global warming is this: We have no solution."

Will old Europe and American Gaia worshippers go after China and its economy like they attack America and its prosperity, when China surpasses the U.S. in emissions? Not a chance.