It may be a pipedream.


Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Sen. Christopher Bond (R-Mo.)
Despite Lieberman’s bipartisan bill, even Boxer’s Democratic colleagues are not so sanguine.

At the end of a long list of platitudes from U.S. lawmakers about the importance of global warming, the Danish environmental minister had heard just about enough.

“Congress is waking up on this, and that’s fine,” Connie Hedegaard told a joint forum of European Union leaders and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

“But we are getting a little impatient ... on behalf of the planet.”

Like the Iraq war, climate change has frustrated congressional Democrats eager to deliver on a key promise yet hamstrung by the realities of a closely divided, Democratically controlled Congress and a Republican president skeptical of the imminent threat of global warming.


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This is a study done by 1400 scientists. The crap we get in this country is by people who have an agfenda or have links to the polluters.


The future of humanity has been put at risk by a failure to address environmental problems including climate change, species extinction and a growing human population, according to a new UN report.

In a sweeping audit of the world's environmental wellbeing, the study by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warns that governments are still failing to recognise the seriousness of major environmental issues.

The study, involving more than 1,400 scientists, found that human consumption had far outstripped available resources. Each person on Earth now requires a third more land to supply his or her needs than the planet can supply, it finds.


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In a sweeping audit of the world's environmental wellbeing, the study by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warns that governments are still failing to recognise the seriousness of major environmental issues.

And the largest polluter of all, the US, is still setting on their hands over global warming.