Senator Chuck Grassley is a silly and irresponsible man:

“You mean it’s not the failure of the People’s Assembly in China or the Parliament of India to pass laws cutting down on CO2 (carbon dioxide), it’s only America’s fault, blame America first?” said Republican Charles Grassley.

“You know, you can’t have it both ways. Other countries can’t have it both ways,” he said in a regular conference call with media from his home state of Iowa, according to a transcript of the discussion.

Grassley also said he “would not be satisfied” with any climate change agreement that treats the United States differently than China or India.

“China’s putting more CO2 into the air, and I wouldn’t be satisfied if China’s not treated like the United States because what good does it do for the United States to clean up CO2? It’s not going to make an impact unless China and India (are) involved as well,” he said.

Consider this pie chart of historical greenhouse gas emissions from 1750-2005:

Grassley’s attempt to blame China for this is like the child who makes a huge mess in their room, then blames their younger sibling who just walked into the room. Another decent analogy would be Republicans who blame Obama for the budget deficit despite the obvious fact that he inherited it from Republican George W. Bush. This type of selective memory and faux outrage may be effective among Republican primary voters, but nobody who is actually paying attention is going to fall for it.