The U.S. has traditionally taken a key leadership role,

That is a freaking arrogant claim. Exxon was the first to discover global warming. Amd shared the data. Was then rapidly reformed and started the global warming denyal fight.

America took the key role in fighting against the reduction of oil use from the early 80s. And as a nation has been little more then green washing ever since.

Absolutely clownish for the US diplomats to take the high-ground over China here. The US has utterly failed to take a leading role in green energy and climate action, and is calling on China to do better? Ludicrous.

Yes, it would certainly be a great thing if both countries do more to speed up the reduction of emissions and converting to green energy, but the US has failed miserably while China has not, so far.

China has over 4 times the population of the US and pollutes a little over twice what we do. Which is incredible considering they make all the crap we buy. Per capita emissions should be the only way to discuss who is making strides.

Preaching to the choir here, but the US has never led on this. Paris was a joke before the ink on the signatures even dried. The bedrock of our economy is fossil fuels and unless someone’s willing to do some percussive maintenance on our ruli- I mean, our economy, we’re stuck.

It kinda amazes me how thoroughly the dems were able to get away with selling the IRA as a climate investment, and, now that Bad Cop is back in charge, they get to pin the failures of the US to genuinely decarbonize on him.

Kinda stupid if they’ve been waiting for the US to come around. We’re basically everybody’s senile old grandpa. Never know what we’re going to say/do every 4 or so years.