One of the more amusing parts of the two-week long world climate change conference in Brazil is the parade of headlines telling us that China is the greenhouse gas saint and America the sinner.  That’s because, for once, the USA isn’t being played for a fool and footing the tab for the multi-million dollar party that after some 30 years of sermons, has accomplished absolutely nothing.

Kudos to Trump for not sending a single American delegate to this worthless shindig.

This chart that appeared in the latest Economist magazine (the once-respected publication that has gone all in on the anti-growth green crusade) confirms two inconvenient truths that we’ve repeated many times:

First, China is far and away the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases (they burn coal at home and make windmills and solar panels for the suckers in the rest of the world).

Second, the U.S. leads the world in carbon dioxide emission reductions in the last decade because we use more natural gas.

But to repeat: we’re the villain.