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To: Snowshoe who wrote (55387)	9/25/2009 11:06:09 PM
From: Moominoid	Respond to of 218044

China has energy intensity targets already and now Hu is proposing a carbon intensity target. They are pretty ambitious. They also have a renewable energy target for 2020 that is the same as the European Union. China is more ambitious if anything than the US is in this regard. I see the Copenhagen meeting as likely formalizing carbon intensity targets for developing economies. The consensus seems to be that the numbers probably won't be pinned down though at this meeting. There was a pretty average dust storm in Canberra and then lots of thunderstorms and showers brought the dust down. Nothing like the intensity of dust seen in Sydney (and it was much worse in Broken Hill for example in Western NSW). I've seen something approaching the conditions in Sydney in Israel twenty + years ago. We had more dust last night and now it is raining again. We're actually getting quite a lot of rain recently and the levels in our reservoirs are going up. I'm pretty skeptical of the idea that global warming will mean a drier climate here. Maybe further west in the Murray-Darling Basin it could. But in both locations it was drier during the ice ages and so it seems reasonable to me that it will be wetter in a warmer climate. Certainly the coastal regions should be expected to get wetter.