The solar panels in the plant can supply around 620,000 units of electricity to 150 families for one year, and offset around 520 tonnes of carbon dioxide emission. According to The Hong Kong Electric Company, the solar panels also make up the largest solar energy system in Hong Kong

China knows about climate change and what a threat it represents.  It’s one reason they are investing so much in solar and wind power.  Other countries are taking action on climate change and renewable energy, more so than in the United States.  The Department of Defense in the U.S. is well aware of the threat of climate change, and they have been preparing for it for years. But it’s another matter with politicians. In the  U.S.,  politics and the mainstream media think there is still a debate that they need to have about the best way forward, and even about climate change science itself.  This dangerous viewpoint is still a part of our popular culture, despite so much evidence that climate change is the main danger we face as a country and as humans.  The DoD knows this, but they don’t communicate directly with the media or the public about it. They do write reports, though.

In its 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) (PDF), released Monday, the Department of Defense says it’s critical to craft a “strategic approach to climate and energy.”

Other countries realize this too, but the U.S. is slow to admit things that may potentially affect the status quo economy in any way.  (Our addiction to super capitalism is as bad as our addiction to fossil fuels).

The EPA has finally come out forcefully against giving climate change deniers the same credibility as people who recognize the science.

EPA Rejects 10 Petitions Charging Climate Science is Flawed

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today denied 10 petitions challenging its 2009 endangerment finding which said that climate change is real, is occurring due to emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities, and threatens human health and the environment.

EPA found no evidence to support the claims of the petitions which assert that a conspiracy invalidates the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the U.S. Global Change Research Program. On the contrary, EPA’s review of the petitions found that climate science is credible, compelling, and growing stronger.

“The endangerment finding is based on years of science from the U.S. and around the world. These petitions — based as they are on selectively edited, out-of-context data and a manufactured controversy — provide no evidence to undermine our determination. Excess greenhouse gases are a threat to our health and welfare,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson.

“Defenders of the status quo will try to slow our efforts to get America running on clean energy. [...]