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...they could reach.” Nature writing in cases like this is not mere romanticism, for the emotional link it forges props up the reams of statistical evidence produced by science. Nor is it manipulative, for it encourages our noblest impulses (as appeals to marching penguins and Al Gore don’t, really...
...What that something will be, though, will need the support of more than just diplomats. Gore urged Congress to pass President Obama's stimulus package and, as soon as possible, a national cap-and-trade bill for carbon emissions - a prerequisite to leading negotiations in Copenhagen. If the U.S. takes on carbon restrictions of its own, Gore argued, major developing nations like China and Brazil are ready to fall in line. The Kyoto agreement gave developing countries a free pass to keep emitting carbon - a key reason the accord failed in the U.S. Senate - but Copenhagen will be different, because...
...most of his prepared testimony, Gore ran through an abbreviated version of his famous Inconvenient Truth PowerPoint presentation on the threat of climate change - updated with new, increasingly scary data. He pointed out that the increase in global carbon emissions over the past few years is well above previous estimates from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, meaning that we are beginning to put ourselves on track for worst-case scenarios. He noted a sobering new paper published Jan. 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which indicated that even if we managed to stabilize...
...surprise that Democrats like Kerry, a regular at U.N. climate-change summits, are in favor of pushing for a new global deal on carbon, but even Republicans seemed to grasp Gore's message. Senator Corker of Tennessee, who has emerged as one of the more thoughtful GOP voices on energy, told Gore he could see the shift coming on climate. "We are now firing with real bullets," said Corker. "My sense is, this year something will really occur...
...Gore's position was echoed across the Atlantic today, as the European Union presented its own negotiating position for the Copenhagen talks. E.U. Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimos called for all 30 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to take on mandatory carbon cuts. The OECD includes such nations as South Korea and Mexico, which were exempted from Kyoto targets. Dimos also promised billions in aid to developing countries as an enticement to agree to a new deal at Copenhagen - though in a possible sign of how difficult such programs might be in a global recession...