Stacy Summary: These are two articles I read while getting my haircut this morning; the line I highlight in the second article is what I have maintained will probably sort out the problems in the first.   Most empires / new powers emerge with a new energy source.  It makes sense that the US, which became a superpower through oil will fight tooth and nail to preserve this.  But it makes zero sense for China to tie their future to an energy source that the US has and will continue to destroy to control.  Also, trying to solve the problem of energy will give China the home-grown technological knowledge that they will need if they want to become a serious global power.   So, two interesting reads, look forward to your thoughts . . .

• There are lots of uncertainties in climate science.  But that does not mean it is fundamentally wrong. [The Economist]
  

• It’s China’s World, We’re Just Living in It [Newsweek]
  

The same principle explains the country’s overall drive to move ahead of the rest of the world: to make sure it gets a real say in setting its future rules and standards. It knows it can climb the economic ladder more easily in new and developing technologies than in traditional industries, and that’s why China, the world’s biggest polluter, has also become the single biggest state supporter of green technology. Thanks to massive government subsidies, it’s now a world leader in solar- and wind-energy hardware and is moving fast to set the standard in the next generation of clean-energy vehicles. Batteries made by the Chinese firm BYD are already used in at least a quarter of the world’s mobile-phone market; now the battery maker is leading the global race to adapt these batteries for cars, the biggest remaining hurdle in creating a viable market for electric and hybrid automobiles.