Comments on: India reveals its first climate change plan

Sun-drenched country pushes for solar power, a soaring industry there.

[William Crow]

What climate change?

[cnetcensorssuck]

None that you with your 3rd grade science education could comprehend.

[Deep_Indian]

This is an excellent first step towards the larger realizations in this sector. I commend the Prime Minister and his team for putting together a comprehensive view-point on the efforts needed across multiple sectors.
For the first time I noticed a "country view" on a topic. By bringing together all the eco-system players, the government is putting across the right mandate to make India "green".

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[flickrz]

"I can't believe these many countries really think that Global Warming is a real phenomenon. Burning fossil fuel is the best thing that happened to our economy in last 2 centuries. GW is just a myth created b companies to sell Green products." - Sean Hannity and Bush Administration.
He also said "Iraq was responsible for 9/11 and they have WMDs. And they have Chemical weapons that could be launched on the western world in just 45 minutes."
He was wrong all along. Every word that comes out of his mouth is a lie. But hey, who cares? He wears flag lapel pin. So, he must be patriotic.
Forget all these nonsense; we too need such a plan as soon as possible. Because, we were the largest polluters for 100 years until last year when China took the crown.

[blabtech]

India is growing at such a rapid rate, hats off to India by all the major improvements it's been making!

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[TarasW]

The Indians, like the Chinese, must be laughing at us. Here's an actual quote (unlike flickrz's concocted ones, above) from the Pew Climate Center's account of the Indian plan:

"Emphasizing the overriding priority of maintaining high economic growth rates to raise living standards, the plan ... pledges that India?s per capita greenhouse gas emissions 'will at no point exceed that of developed countries even as we pursue our development objectives.'" -- http://www.pewclimate.org/international/country-policies/india-climate-plan-summary/06-2008

Note well, that's "per capita": India is graciously limiting itself to 377% (and rising) of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions!

All we're doing is shifting greenhouse emissions (and economic growth) from one country to another.

Here's a provocative column about the Indians' real attitude about global warming. The parts of it I checked out proved true.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23991257-25717,00.html