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...atmosphere and the climate will get warmer - that much is well established. But climate change and carbon aren't in a one-to-one relationship. If they were, climate modeling would be a cinch. How much the globe will warm if we put a certain amount of CO2 into the air depends on the sensitivity of the climate. How vulnerable is the polar sea ice; how rapidly might the Amazon dry up; how fast could the Greenland ice cap disintegrate? That's why models like those from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change spit out a range of predictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In a Warming World, Cloudy Days Are a Boon | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

India is industrializing fast, however, and carbon emissions could more than quadruple over the next 20 years if the country does nothing to slow them. Ramesh pointed out that even in 2030, India's per capita emissions would still be far lower than levels in developed countries - but sheer population growth means India will become a bigger carbon emitter on the whole. In the future, developing nations will contribute the large majority of CO2 emissions, but if the world has to wait for countries like India to get rich before they begin cutting carbon, the planet is doomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Climate Conundrum: How to Get India to Play Ball | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...recently passed by the House of Representatives - and which will soon be taken on by the Senate - includes a provision that would eventually impose trade sanctions on countries that did not accept binding emissions targets. The passage was inserted to appease members of Congress who worried that a carbon cap would lead to the migration of energy-intensive industries from nations with emissions limits to those without them. That restriction seems fair - until you realize that many of the products exported from countries like India and China, with lower environmental standards, are sent to rich countries like the U.S. (Watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Climate Conundrum: How to Get India to Play Ball | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...tariffs on free trade, and that putting up such barriers would only make a global agreement more elusive. But other provisions could give the U.S. quiet leverage over developing nations. Annie Petsonk, the international counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund, says that the U.S. could make access to American carbon markets - which could eventually be worth trillions - contingent on how developing nations deal with climate change, for example by agreeing to mandatory reductions in the rate of growth of their emissions. "Carbon-market access is the first and most powerful carrot and stick," she says. "Members of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Climate Conundrum: How to Get India to Play Ball | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...pressure that we, who have been among the lowest emitters per capita, face to actually reduce emissions," Ramesh said to Clinton at a conference on climate change in Gurgaon, near New Delhi, on July 19. "And as if this pressure was not enough, we also face the threat of carbon tariffs on our exports to countries such as yours." Clinton defused the situation by asserting that the U.S. would not take any step to limit India's economic growth. (See pictures of Hillary Clinton meeting Michelle Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Trip to India: What's the Takeaway? | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

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