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Obama's Climate Challenge: Winning the Carbon Game http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1237912005
... At the close of 2009, the nations of the world will assemble in Copenhagen to negotiate a global climate treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. If a U.S. climate policy doesn't exist by then, it is hard to see how developing countries such as India, Brazil and especially China -- whose emissions now exceed those of the U.S. -- can be convinced to sign an agreement. The U.S. has been emitting carbon dioxide for far longer and in far greater quantities; the other nations expect the U.S. to take the plunge first. No one doubts the Obama administration's dedication on the issue: the president's cabinet and the White House are filled with a dream team of scientists and climate policy experts committed to strong action (profiled throughout this article). Among the most valuable players are Harvard University's John Holdren (the president's science adviser) and Nobel laureate physicist Steven Chu (the secretary of energy). The president himself appears just as passionate. As he put it in November 2008: "Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response. The stakes are too high; the consequences too serious." Yet as of this writing, several unresolved matters of policy -- and strategy -- raise questions about how President Barack Obama's team can best manage this gargantuan challenge.
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