From WIRED BLogs:
The Chinese government has released new data showing that China will almost certainly pass the United States in 2007 or 2008 to become the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Based on data from the new study and from the International Energy Agency, the increase in the amount of China’s greenhouse gas emissions is now greater than that of all industrialized nations put together.
According to David Fridley, leader of the China Energy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory:
“The magnitude of what’s happening in China threatens to wipe out what’s happening internationally. Today’s global warming problem has been caused mainly by us in the West, with the cumulative [carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases] in the atmosphere, but China is contributing to the global warming problem of tomorrow.” [Full Text]
