Paul Albaugh: China Games the Climate Change Conference

Paul Albaugh: China Games the Climate Change Conference — The Patriot Post:
"After a week of climate change talks in Paris, there remains much uncertainty regarding the end result.
...Recall that the central focus on these talks is that both developed and developing nations must commit to reducing carbon emissions so that we can prevent the global temperature from increasing more than two degrees Celsius.
Without doing so, a parade of horribles awaits, they tell us. In the eyes of so many world “leaders,” this perceived threat remains more of a pressing concern than real threats.
...As Hot Air’s Bruce McQuain writes, “Lately the meme has been that ISIS is a result of climate change (even though, for the past 10 years, the climate hasn’t changed). 
We’ve been treated to all sorts of theories masquerading as ‘proof’ that climate change is real.
We’ve watched the alarmists ignore contrary data and continue to tell their big lie.”
...According to the Heritage Foundation’s Nicolas Loris, we should be wary of China’s commitment to reduce emissions.
China remains the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions, and that isn’t going to change any time soon.
China is constructing 350 coal-fired power plants and has plans to build another 800. 
As Loris notes, “This is the country that we’re going to trust to peak emissions 15 years from now?”
...The Wall Street Journal notes, “In 2013 China burned 3.9 billion tons of coal, almost as much as the rest of the world.”
Further, “Last week Beijing suffered several days of heavy pollution in which the most hazardous particulates in the air exceeded safe levels by 25 times.”
...As another Wall Street Journal Column observes, “Energy-intensive industries like manufacturing, chemicals, cement and pulp and paper will be particular victims and may decamp for overseas.
The President is trading away the competitive advantage of cheap U.S. natural gas for a bag of anticarbon promises.”
If the Paris talks accomplish anything, it won’t be reining in CO2 emissions.
But if the talks end up producing any results, it will be massive redistribution of wealth on a global scale.
Somebody will have to pay for these mandates and it won’t be China or India — or any other developing country for that matter.
The developed nations will be paying for it. Well played China, well played."