commonsensewonder.blogspot.com - 10/23/2009
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China-India Accord to Scuttle UN Climate Treaty By William R. Hawkins On October 22, an accord was signed by Xie Zhenhua, China's vice minister at the National Development and Reform Commission, and Jairam Ramesh, India's environment minister, in New Delhi. The memorandum provides an ...
UN Climate Summit Puts China, India In Spotlight
huffingtonpost.com 9/23/2009 — UNITED NATIONS — In the highest-level conference yet on climate change, 100 world leaders come to the United Nations on Tuesday to decide how to start an energy revolution.
While attention turns to U.S. President Barack Obama's first U.N. ...
India and China agree to united front on climate change
csmonitor.com 10/22/2009 — India and China's climate-change pact, signed Wednesday, will boost developing nations' bargaining power at the critical Copenhagen talks in December. By Peter Ford | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the October 22, 2009 edition ...
So can anyone actually do anything about global warming?
themoderatevoice.com 8/25/2009 — The new issue of Foreign Affairs is hot off the presses. Its cover package includes three articles about global warming that are well worth reading. The focus here is entirely on how to solve the problem. This is a discussion of the politics, not the scientific debate behind it.
First up is ...
How the U.S. Could Be the Next Britain (In a Bad Way)
harrisonprice.com 10/20/2009 — From the Wall Street Journal (food for thought):
The dollar’s sharp drop over the past few weeks has led to considerable anxiety about the status of the United States as the dominant force in the global economy. Closely related to this fear is constant worry about the rise of China and ...
Sarah Palin's TEA Party: A third party?
swamppolitics.com 10/2/2009 — by Mark Silva
Mark this as the week in which one of the potential players for 2012 set out to brand herself: Sarah Palin, the "common-sense conservative.''
Three years from now -- think about that phrase a moment -- we'll know if the ...
Does Citigroup Need China?
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/20/2009 — Most of the economists and pundits who could not see an $8 trillion housing bubble are telling us that the United States desperately needs for the Chinese government to keep buying its debt. This crew of failed analysts argues that without the ...
China-India Accord to Scuttle UN Climate Treaty
americanthinker.com 10/23/2009 — The two giants of the developing world signed an accord yesterday, strengthening their opposition to regulation of their so-called greenhouse gas emissions.
Mind boggling decision...
commonsensewonder.blogspot.com 10/15/2009 — EXCLUSIVE: Obama loosens missile technology controls to China Bill Gertz INSIDE THE RING President Obama recently shifted authority for approving sales to China of missile and space technology from the White House to the Commerce Department -- a move critics say will loosen export controls and ...
Who’s The Climate-Change Bad Guy? - Environmental Capital
blogs.wsj.com 9/22/2009 — There is a new storyline emerging ahead of this week's talks on climate change. China has somehow emerged as the good guy, and the U.S., less than a year after the election of Barack Obama, is again the villain. Yes, China just became the world's ...