Well, this is about what one has come to expect from reporting on “global warming”:

Hundreds of political delegates become “hundreds of scientists”; yes we’re used to this, at least it beats the usual “thousands”. But, c’mon, “China, which is set to overtake the United States within the next decade or so as the world’s single largest emitter of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas driving global warming,…” Also ignore for the moment the subtly clever characterization of CO2′s role in climate; the real offense is that the author just made this part about China up.

In reality, the International Energy Agency’s projection — that China would overtake the U.S. in 2008 — was recently revised forward by the US Energy Information Administration to China’s emissions likely overtaking ours…this year. An error of a decade in the article, without the remotest possibility that the rreporter sourced is somewhere. I assure you that you will not find this error working the other way, to wit, “China, which passed the United States a decade ago as the world’s single largest emitter of carbon dioxide…”, for the obvious reason that that would do nothing to paint the U.S. as bad guy.