China perhaps one of the most congested polluted nations in modern memory has stated, through its chief climate experts says "developing nations" like China should not be required to pay or reduce greenhouse emissions, that task falls to the US and other "wealthy" nations.

Not only has China surpassed the United States as the worlds largest polluter and greatest emitter of CO2 gases, but it is also the world's second largest economy, having surpassed Japan and Germany, yet China calls itself a poor little developing nation, and surely as we all live and brief the 10,000 other conferees in attendance at the Bali Climate Conference are quick to support China's assessment of the environmental situation.

How convenient for China that once again (just like the infamous Kyoto Protocol) the Middle Kingdom's industries will be given a free pass to pollute at will while the US is expected to shoulder all the burdens and suffer all the hard ships, and yet these individuals are surprised when Americans thumb there nose at the UN.

Given the not so secret hidden agenda of such conferences its truly surprising the US even chooses to participate in the first place. There hasn't been such a one sided approach to handling global issues since the 1884 Berlin Conference in which the so-called great powers of Europe met to divide up the African continent amongst themselves.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8TCPUE80&show_article=1

The global warming gala meeting in Bali, Indonesia is salivating at the thought of all the wealth these environmentalists plan to extract from nations like the US for the sins of climate changing pollution. We have already heard of numerous plans designed to punish the US for its CO2 emissions, and now apparently we have received a report on where the US ranks. Apparently the US is the 2^nd worse climate sinner in the world, after Saudi Arabia.

From this report can we conclude that Saudi Arabia is the world’s number one emitter of CO2 emissions, since the US is number two? Actually no, China is the world’s number one polluter, yet China ranks 14. That’s right 14…how legitimate is any such study when the world’s chief polluter isn’t even ranked among the top ten?

Should the US reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and dependence on foreign oil? Absolutely, if for no other reason than to defend our homeland from oil rich tyrants determined to do us arm. But when reports such as these are released based more on conjecture and emotion rather than scientific fact, it comes as no surprise that so many Americans are hostile to these environmental groups.

www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2007-12-07-bali-climate-conference_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

In a study that should surprise almost no one, a new survey reveals that students in the US continue to lag far behind in terms of math and science. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development gave the same test to 15 year old students in 30 industrialized countries , including the United States, as well as 27 other non-OECD countries. Finland, Hong Kong, Canada, Taiwan and South Korea were among the top performers on the test, but where was the United States you ask? Well below average, where else. And yet opponents of school choice claim offering alternatives for American school children would be harmful. The question is: harmful to whom?

Certainly not harmful to the student, they already rank amongst the bottom of the barrel, no school choice would be harmful to the schools and the administrators, school boards and teachers unions, who thrive under the status quo. With school choice, the state’s education monoploy would be vanquished and schools would have to perform or their customers (ie, the students would turn elsewhere). Indeed, while American students languish in the doldrums other nation’s even left leaning ones have long since embraced school choice to one extent or another. In Hong Kong, France, Canada, Belgium, Chile, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, etc…school choice is the norm, and in those countries students excell, while in America mediocrity is the order of the day. Even in neo-Fascist regimes like Putin's Russia where the state plays an ever increasing role in so many aspects of people's lives there is school choice.

Schools, alone are not to blame for America’s shamefully poor performance on such academic barometers. The attitude of many American parents toward education is sorely lacking and helps to explain why parents in Utah recently shot down a ballot initiative to bring about school choice there. Sadly, for many Americans education takes a back seat to American Idol, Football, Music, Movies and every other aspect of popular culture and as long as it does, look for Americans to continue their downward spiral toward insignificance.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i8h-DxHp61exabOSw_W4O6KZf9CwD8TAHK7G0

In a move heralded by environmentalist, anti-American Socialists, leftist and all of those in between the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has voted in favor of a bill that would bring about a reduction in “Greenhouse Gas emissions.”

If passed by the full Senate, as well as the House. The bill will take huge step in reducing CO2 and other Greenhouse gases. Once passed the bill ban reproduction, as human beings have a nasty habit of breeding to further strains on the environment and producing excessive amounts of carbon dioxide. Beef and other meets will be banned for the same reasons that the government will put the kibosh on reproduction.

But perhaps the greatest move will be those provisions in the bill governing the planet itself. All Volcanos are to be banned. As the earth contributes well over 95% of all CO2 emissions in a given year it is imperative that planet earth be put on notice. “Planet Earth’s days of recklessly polluting itself are at an end…” A Senator could have said.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-12-06-voa5.cfm