Friday, February 18, 2005

hot air

From the BBC via Drudge:

China has "eclipsed" the US as a consumer nation
China has overtaken the US in the consumption of basic agricultural and industrial goods, a survey has found.

With a booming economy and 1.3bn people, it is now the world's largest consumer of grain, meat, coal and steel, said the Earth Policy Institute.

But China's insatiable demands are putting ever more pressure on the country's natural resources.

Air and water pollution are already serious problems, and there is talk of a looming ecological crisis. (snip)


Of course China as well as India, most of what to be the USSR, Africa, etc. are exempt from that travesty called the Kyoto Treaty. Try this on from Junkscience dot com:

Celebrating Hot Air Day!


Different subject, still hot air, and amusing as hell:

Scott Ritter Lands New Job...

Ya know, if I was soldering and that waste of oxygen got in my crosshairs (accidentally), don't quite know what would happen.

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