China kills all chances of climate treaty with their policy stance

Since China has come right out and refused to reign in their pollution and greenhouse gases, there is no chance that any kind of climate treaty will be reached where the U.S. can take part. They instead blame developed countries and blame actions taken decades ago to justify their refusal. That attitude will make U.S. participation impossible if the U.S. is expected to hobble our economy while China grows unimpeded by climate regulations.

Negotiations on a new treaty to fight global warming will fail if rich nations are not treated as "culprits" and developing countries as "victims," China's top climate envoy said.

The whole world must take action to confront climate change, but developed countries have a "historical responsibility" to do much more because their unrestrained emissions in the past century are responsible for global warming, said Ambassador Yu Qingtai.

"The United States and the developed states as a whole are the countries that created the problem, caused the problem of climate change in the first place. In my view, that's what a culprit means," he said in an interview this week on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly debate on climate change.

The United States and China are the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.

Washington has argued it should not have to cut its emissions to a level that would hurt the U.S. economy while countries like China and India are not required to make similar cuts.


For a view opposite that of China's climate representative see this very good blog entry:
An Inconvenient Truth