The particulate in the air from coal burning plants is part of US history.... A town in a Pennsylvania valley had a number of people die from particulates in the air in the early 1900s...
Don't confuse the issue.. China is has green has my left toe. And Obama was a complete fool for making his claim during a State of the Union address.
I'm not against R and D to find cleaner energy to use. Whether that be private or government money to assist in that. Truth is leftwing moonbats are pushing against not just "carbon pollution". Now the moonbats have magically found methane. I knew yrs ago this would happen because methane is far more problematic to the atmosphere than carbon. But cheif ... Here's the real dirty secret these leftwing, moonbat progressives don't want you to know about... This is all a Trojan horse.. WHAT THEY ARE REALLY concerned with is overpopulation and resource management. See... These people are concerned with exploding world population, longer expected life expectancies and how its conceivable to provide for us all. Why do ALL leftist want people to DO WITH LESS than their parents before them??? Resource management.
Now, to be fair I believe there is a lot of reality to this concern... Can this planet handle 10,12 14,000,000,000 people???? ESPECIALLY if more and more of those people lived up to the level of middle or upper middle class American families standard of consumption?????? Heck, I have great doubt this planet could sustain that too.
But you see, its far easier to sell the message of " saving" the planet from global warming than hey, we are concerned there are going to be WAY too many people on this planet in 20 or 30 plus years.. And we cannot feed, cloth, house and treat medically all those people. So let's ALL curb our consumption to some how be able to survive. Also, let's cut back having children too. Also, let's make sure not too waste resources, medical care on the elderly too. You see.. That message will NOT sell well at all. People don't like being told how children to have, that they should have less than their parents did, and that their parents or grandparents really don't need all that expensive medical care. FAR easier to sell the other message and then implement policies that are to treat the REAL concern they have and the people are rather blissfully unaware.
Again, I believe it is right and just to find answers to energy production that are not has harmful to the environment in which we live. This is the only planet we have so therefore it is exceptionally wise to conserve what we have.
Interesting tid bit though.. A firm believer in global warming said that if we could harness the power of Fusion that it would be the worst outcome for humanity. Why??? Because carbon, methane is NOT their REAL concern. I actually believe that they could be very well reasoned in their REAL concerns.But God bless America.. Just be forthright with it so at least we can have a honest debate \ discussion about it