permafrost wrote:
Good morning AuntiE, The US has the technology and the money to require low emissions. We control each individual quite well, but collectively, we are still the largest polluter in the world. One of the reasons the US refused to signe the Kaoyta (that city in Japan) treaty a number of years ago that included most of the worlds industrial nations, was due to that fact, we would pay much more into cleanup then the emerging nations.
China and India both are creating large and effective pollution control systems. China has suspended building coal fired power plants, moving to natural gas and has the largest solar collector mfg in the world.. The cheap small solar electric panels sold at the home centers are from China.. China is so badly effected by pollution that they shut down all the plants that would have affected the Olympics they had 2 yrs ago. They have health problems from air quality so severe that all 3 of the major modernized areas in the nation have had slow downs in production of computers and electronics...
India was the poster boy for starting the EPA when they were the victim of the largest air pollution tragedy in history. That was not lost on their country and work is going on to clean up the nation..
Other nations may not care about our problems, but when the pollution k**ls their own and costs them money, they run to fix it and that is happening in China and India as we speak..
Not familiar with USGS reports on climate..But as was clearly stated, 2005 and 2010 were the hottest years we have recorded world wide.. Lot of reports are local and these jump all over the charts, but when all are collected for the wide world, the trend is very clear, the world is getting warmer...
Good morning AuntiE, The US has the technology and... (
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well how do you propose to fix it ,another big tax,because that is what your demorat friends in washington are after.