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The article states that though China had claimed at the Paris climate conference that it would stop the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, by reducing its coal usage, yet the Chinese state-owned companies have been building coal-fired power plants.

Every two years, like clockwork, Congress seems to pass an energy bill, each one marginally better than the one before. What this country does not need in 2009 is another energy bill, even a better one. What it needs is a climate bill, one committed to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases in a way that engages the whole economy and forces major technological change. Without such a bill, America will lose the race against time on climate, lose the race for markets for new and cleaner energy systems, and forfeit any claim to world leadership in advance of the next round of global climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents the author's views on a strategy related to climate change released by China on June 4, 2007. The strategy, according to the author, promises to improve energy efficiency, but refuses to lower greenhouse gas emissions. The author further comments that the strategy rebuffed the efforts made by U.S. President George W. Bush and European countries to draw developing countries, including China, into a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The article reports on the criticism of the interference of the U.S. administration led by President George W. Bush with the work of government climate scientists at a hearing of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight of the U.S. Congress. Republican representatives present at the hearing agreed that greenhouse gases generated by people and their machinery have raised the temperature of the earth's climate.