The world is fascinated by the November 12 climate agreement between President Obama and Chinese President Xi.  Has China finally decided to “fight climate change”?  My personal opinion is that China is taking advantage of White House science ignorance and anxiety about future climate change, hoping thereby to gain commercial and strategic advantages against the United States.  The bilateral US-China Climate Agreement, inked in Beijing on Nov 12, makes virtually no demands on the Chinese.  It simply states that at or about the year 2030, they will start to reduce their emissions of CO2; in the meantime, they can emit as much as they want.  So they have 15 more years to add more coal-fired power plants to any extent they wish.  It is very likely that by 2030, China’s population will have stopped growing and a large part will be living in urban apartment blocks, having bought all of the gadgets they need: TVs, refrigerators, computers,...(Read Full Article)