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GliderGuider

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5. "as officials map out plans for market-based changes to drive long-term expansion"

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sun May 26, 2013, 06:27 PM

May 2013

It will take almost 100,000 years to get the current amount of excess CO2 out of the atmosphere. A fat lot of good a 20-year "slowdown" in their expansion will do, if they're planning on 200 years of long-term growth after that..

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Chinese President: China Will Not Sacrifice Environment For Short-Term Growth [View all] hatrack May 2013 OP

Don't see what you're laughing at - this is good news kristopher May 2013 #1

Presumably he means dipsydoodle May 2013 #2

The irony is, this could be horrible for solar manufacturers there NickB79 May 2013 #3

No wonder y'all are so pronuclear kristopher May 2013 #4

Which mean's China will no longer supply the world with cheap panels NickB79 May 2013 #9

"as officials map out plans for market-based changes to drive long-term expansion" GliderGuider May 2013 #5

They must have invented a Time Machine stuntcat May 2013 #6

Well at least he's *saying* the right things. That's more than our Republicans have done. Kablooie May 2013 #7

As a great GOP president once said pscot May 2013 #8