Revealing Quote of the Day

Somebody forgot that he was looking at his “Who will be emitting the most in a few years?” list, instead of the one entitled “Who do we always make sure we beat up on in public?”:

“You need all major emitters to join in, including India, China and the United States,” said Japan’s chief climate negotiator, Mutsuyoshi Nishimura.

Oops.

China’s emissions will exceed those of the US this year.

Though I could not find any direct reference, I would think that India is no more than a decade behind. India could move to Number 1 if it stays truer to capitalist principles than still-Communist China (i.e., if it prospers more).

It also appears, based on the bolded portion of the following excerpt, that India’s emissions have been under-tabulated:

19 per cent of India’s global warming emissions from large dams, says study

NEW DELHI: Latest scientific estimates show that large dams in India are responsible for about a fifth of the countries’ (sic; should be “country’s”) total global warming impact.

The estimates also reveal that Indian dams are the largest global warming contributors compared to all other nations.

….. The study estimates that emission of methane from all the reservoirs of the world could be around 120 mt per annum. This means that of the total global emissions of methane due to all human activities, contribution from large dams alone could be around 24 per cent. The study does not include the emission of nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide from large dams. If all these were included, the global warming impact of large reservoirs would go up further.

The methane emission from India ’s dams is estimated at 27.86 per cent of the methane emission from all the large dams of the world, which is more than the share of any other country of the world.

….. “It is unfortunate that Lima ’s study has come too late to be included in the recent reports from the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),” said Patrick McCully, Director of the International Rivers Network.

Without a compelling reason, nobody should be telling countries with hundreds of millions of people in grinding poverty that they must stay that way, which is exactly what capping China’s and India’s emissions would do. And besides, until someone tells me why Fred Singer’s point about global satellite temperature readings is wrong, there’s no compelling reason to, because, absent refutation, it’s all, well, globaloney.