The United Nations to exempt China from stricter CO2 regulations?

Yesterday Barack Obama appeared at the United Nations climate summit and he said that global warming was such a threat to the world and to our way of life that he was willing to take Executive action in order to help combat the problem.

This Executive action includes the Federal government taking into consideration the effects on the climate while deciding whether or not to assist other countries with development projects.

Here is more:

“We can only succeed in combating climate change if we are joined by every nation, developed and developing alike. Nobody gets a pass,”

The United Nations, like most of the American people, have either stopped listening to what the President has to say or they have decided not to follow his lead if this story is correct because apparently the United Nations is prepared to offer China an exemption to new CO2 regulations. It looks like China will be getting a pass.

And China just happens to be the biggest polluter nation in the world:

They point out that China is not only the world’s largest emitter of CO2 with a 29% share but also now exceeds the emissions on a per capita basis by the 28 countries in the European Union.

But that is not all if this story is correct because China emits more per capita greenhouse gasses than the United States and the European Union COMBINED.

China is for the first time emitting more carbon pollution per person than the EU, birthplace of the industrial revolution. In a notable turning point for the world’s most populous nation, China produced 7.2 tonnes of planet-warming carbon dioxide a head last year, compared with 6.8 tonnes in the EU. Its total C02 emissions outstrip those of both the EU and the US combined, scientists reported.

So what gives? Is climate change a direct threat to our way of lives or is it not? Is the United Nations serious about saving the planet or is this, as I have believed all along, a political issue and not an environmental issue?