From The Globe and Mail:
The ice melted in Beijing’s lakes this week as the temperature soared to 16 degrees, its highest winter level in 167 years, and Chinese authorities acknowledged the phenomenon is linked to global warming.
But despite the dramatic evidence in its capital city, China is still responding with ambivalence and evasion to the mounting pressure to take action.
Last week, it tried to weaken the final wording of the latest report by a panel of the world’s top climate scientists. It refused to support the creation of a more powerful United Nations environmental agency. And its state media gave little publicity to the panel’s report on climate change.Officials yesterday blamed the West for global warming and refused to say whether China would set limits on greenhouse-gas emissions. [Full Text]
