because china will screw it all up. >> look, the government can't change the weather. i said that in the speech. we can pass a bunch of laws that will destroy our economy, but it isn't going to change the weather. because, for example, there are other countries that are polluting in the atmosphere, much greater than we are at this point. china, india, all these countries that are still growing. and they're not going to stop doing what they're doing. america is a country, it's not a planet. >> america is a country, not a planet. we looked into that, that claim is rated true. sounds a little silly, but that is a much more sophisticated argument than, i am not a scientist. there is a bigger issue with just how a big a slice of carbon emissions come from china. that gray band at the bottom is china's contribution to carbon emissions. the increase in the rate of carbon emissions particularly from 2005 to 2011 is indeed being driven largely by china. so if the u.s. takes action, but china doesn't, we still have a real big carbon problem. but here's the thing. if we do not act to reduce our own carbon emissions, you can almost guarantee china will not. if we do act, there's a