President Obama sent two of his Cabinet secretaries to China this week to deal with the question of global warming. Both of them are of Chinese descent. That sent a ripple of interest through China’s officialdom. The cabinet secretaries’ mission was to make a case that China and the United States - the world’s largest emitters of carbon - must cooperate for any deal to be struck at the United Nations climate change talks in Copenhagen this December. One of the first stops came Wednesday, when Energy Secretary Steven Chu spoke at Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University. He warned that if China’s carbon emissions continue to grow at current rates, the results would be staggering. ‘The amount of carbon that China will have emitted in the next 30 years would be equal to all the carbon that the United States has emitted in the life of its country,’ Chu said. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke was also on the trip. In Beijing, one of their stops was Future House USA, a model residence that uses solar panels and geothermal heat pumps to generate its own electricity. Chu used the house as a backdrop for outlining goals for […]