Washington Post: DURING HIS confirmation hearing Thursday, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), President Obama's pick to be the next secretary of state, said that he intends to press China on climate change. The rapidly developing behemoth, he noted, "is soon going to have double the emissions of the United States.' His words are a welcome dose of reality.
In 2007 China blew past the United States as the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Large, developing countries, particularly China and India, are projected to be...