China and their extremely shrewd move yesterday in Cancun

Wow, if this were poker, China just played some magnificent cards in the "Cancun Climate-Change" game.  Holy cow.

They're either playing a magnificent bluff they don't mean or they're really ready to get serious on climate change and carbon emission reduction.  Either way, they're playing a great hand and they're winning at this game, if even only in the outward, public eye.

We--the US--should play cards this well.

This is what they did yesterday:

China shook up the stalled Cancun climate talks on Monday by offering to submit to a binding UN resolution on carbon emissions. It could be a breakthrough moment in the drive to limit global warming and climate change.

The US had said, up to this point, that they--we--wouldn’t budge until China agreed to external verification that they were meeting their obligations--something I assume our government figured was never going to happen.

Well, it just did. 

China said they'd accept internal verifications.

But at the same time, China said they'd move on this if we--again, the US--would take the lead.

So now the ball is in our court.

And do you think there's any chance the Right-wing, the "Conservatives" ('Conservative", as in "conservation", from the root word, "conserve"--that's rich) and the Republicans--those supporters of all thing polluting and corporate--are going to allow any "cap and trade" program to reduce carbon emissions and pollution?

Not a chance.

I tell you, the Chinese just did themselves a huge favor here.  They come out looking like the good guys on this whole issue.  They come out WAY ahead on this.

And the US looks like the polluting, carbon-emitting, stalling chumps, left with all the bad cards.

Suckers.

Links:  http://redgreenandblue.org/2010/12/07/china-makes-game-changing-carbon-offer-at-cancun-climate-talks/