Gary Forbis wrote:
On Jul 13, 5:33 am, "Chas. Chan" wrote:
In fact, China alone is now the world’s leading emitter of greenhouse
gases and its economy will surpass the United States’ by mid-century
if not sooner.

Pass US by mid-century? I guess that's not bad for ten times as
many people.

Here's the thing. Unless it gets greenhouse gases under control
it won't need to worry about passing US economically. Maybe it
can go Soylent Green. (While it's a cheezy movie that postulates
machines can't run at relatively low tempratures for machines but
high for humans, economics will drive up the cost of the fuel to
pump out those greenhouse gases. Unless China is as stupid as
we are and subsidizes fuels that produce greenhouse gasses it
will substitute cheaper alterenatives as they come on line.)
After they get done with Three Gorges, I wonder if they'll try wind in
the Taklamakan. That basin is 500 foot below sea level, with the
Himalaya and Tien Shen mountains on each side. As the basin heats up,
the hot air rises, and cold air flows down out of the mountains to
replace it.

This happens every single day, and has for millennia. Its windpower you
know will be there every day.

America has already seen a shift in our population to warmer
climate "races". Does China have the necessary mix for
population substitution based upon climate change?
They are not going to have substitution. If that which now goes on in
the USA ever gets to the point where it disturbs productivity, the
warmer races will not be fed, housed, or had their homes heated. Both
Chinese and Aryan races evolved in temperate zones over the last dozen
millennia at least, and instinctively put up the resources to survive
the winter. Darwin will sort it out.