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Re:July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa by lukeschlather on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:20AM (#12344417)
The point where your narrative breaks down somewhat is that when you look at pollution per capita, the US is far worse than China. This is even without accounting for the fact that most of the benefits of Chinese pollution, if there are benefits, end up in the USA.

China's population is 4.3 times that of the USA, but they only burn 1.3 times as much coal. In other words, the average American burns nearly 4 times as much coal as the average Chinese person.

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Energy/Coal/C...

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Re:July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa by izzydata on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:31AM (#12344514)
Is that really a fair comparison though? If the United States managed to become as populated as China it wouldn't have the luxury / potential to use as much energy per person as it does now and would become more like China.
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