China’s pollution problem is ridiculous.

RT @GlobalPost Beijing pollution reaches 'crisis' levels. Here's what that looks like: http://t.co/yT6UxA2Y8f pic.twitter.com/983EkRTNbm

— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 26, 2014

Check out this video for a glimpse of the smog problem that plagues Shanghai. This problem unfortunately is all over China and many say it’s getting worse. This posts describes how the problem may get much worse as China plans to build even more coal-fired power plants.

There’s plenty of good news and bad news in this post. The good news is that Chinese officials are taking global warming seriously. The bad news is they might be fighting a losing battle as more Chinese consumers gobble up more and more energy.

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The Chinese are being very aggressive in Africa looking for more sources of oil:

Just how wild is the bidding for good oil acreage these days? Over-the-top wild, to judge by a late May auction of tracts in the Congo Basin, off the coast of Angola. To land the licenses needed to explore three deepwater zones, oil companies from Italy, China, and elsewhere offered to pay an astronomical $3.1 billion in up-front fees (known in the industry as signature bonuses), plus $240 million to build schools and other social projects for the impoverished African country. To give a sense of the price inflation involved, in 1999, Angolan tracts in even deeper water brought in up to $350 million. The May bids were “the highest ever offered for exploration acreage anywhere in the world,” says Catriona O’Rourke, an analyst at Edinburgh consultants Wood Mackenzie, which has published an analysis of data provided by the Angolans.