One writer observes:
China added more coal-burning power plants in 2007 than Britain has built in its history, said Gerard McCloskey, a coal market specialist with Cambridge Energy Research Associates in London.

America’s no slouch, though. Already, the US gets almost half its power from coal, with a rise expected in the next few decades. We’re […]

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President Bush’s final words as he left the recent G8 summit?:
“Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.”
The UK’s Daily Telegraph reports what happened next:
“He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.”

Yes, folks, that’s the President of the United States, […]

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