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As we reported yesterday, Democratic Presidential Front-Runner Barack Obama stated in a prepared speech just this Saturday:

“China, India, in particular Brazil. They are growing so fast that they are consuming more and more energy and pretty soon, if their carbon footprint even approaches ours, we’re goners.” - Sen. Obama (emphasis added)

Unfortunately it is far worse than Sen. Obama realized:

China has surpassed the United States in carbon emissions to become the world’s largest producer of carbon dioxide, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (NEAA) reported Tuesday.

NEAA said China’s output surpassed that of the United States by about 7.5 percent in 2006, making it the largest man-made contributor to global warming. Although China sat 2 percent below the U.S. in 2005, their upped cement production and large coal consumption has pushed them ahead.

The NEAA reported that cement production makes up about 4 percent of the world’s global warming contributions via fuel use and industrial action. It’s no surprise then, that China has overtaken the U.S. for first place. They produce 44 percent of the world’s cement-an industry so large in China that it makes up 9 percent of the nation’s emissions.

As for fossil fuel emissions, in 2006 China’s output increased by 9 percent while the U.S.’s decreased by 1.4 percent, the NEAA also reported. - Outside Online

Of course it’s understandable the Senator might not have yet been aware of these 2006 numbers since they weren’t released until June 2007.

I guess the real question is: now that we’re goners - what now? Quit your job! Make out with your secret crush! Travel the world while its still spinning! Stock up on ammo and sun screen for the coming apocalypse! Oh and I guess carbon credits are now worthless since we have already fallen into the global warming abyss.