Brit's Eye View: Obama-rama | Gristmill

The more sober environmentalists are also yet to be convinced Obama has a radical enough package. Writing in the Telegraph, Charles Clover points out that Obama "would not cut U.S. emissions as much as Al Gore pledged to do under the Kyoto treaty in 1997" and that his "target for stabilizing America's emissions at 1990 levels by 2020 amounts to no more than meeting the pledge which George Bush, Sr. signed at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992." He also notes that the tests of Obama's commitment will come thick and fast -- perhaps the greatest being the speed with which Obama can respond to the Polish round of climate-change negotiations in a few weeks' time -- and wonders if he is ready to wade in at the necessary speed.