The Republican Party is the only major political party in the developed world that rejects climate science. This leads them to assume that other parties - all the other parties - accept "fake" climate science for nefarious Underpants Gnome-type reasons.
Which leads to the phenomenon that Chait talks about. It isn't that China is legitimately worried that Shanghai and Hong Kong might cease to exist, it's that blahblahblah, magical thinking, PROFIT!
Occam's Razor is a hell of a thing. The simplest reason why China and even India are accepting climate science is because climate science is right, and if climate science is right, then we'd better get off our ass and do something about it.
But if you argue the science is wrong (and you are universally alone in arguing this), then you have to constantly change your bullshit arguments to keep up with actions.
It's like Ptolemy's spheres within spheres, when you just need to accept the Copernican Solar System.
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