Kerry: US will insist any climate plan be global

Poznan, Poland - Any deal to cut emissions of gases blamed for global warming must include all countries or risk failure in the US Senate, a prominent US Democratic senator said Thursday. Senator John Kerry's comments came during a UN climate conference. They injected a note of caution into the hopes pinned on president- elect Barack Obama, who has pledged to make the United States a leader in fighting climate change.

"The United States will assume its responsibilities - I am confident - for mandatory reductions," Kerry told reporters. "But we will not pass a treaty unless it is a global solution."
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Kerry said Congress is committed "to move on mandatory goals as rapidly as possible," with the exact levels to be determined. He suggest that an emissions trading plan, known as cap-and-trade, would be slower to emerge.

Kerry said the world is emitting carbon dioxide, the main global- warming gas, four times faster than in 1990. He pointed to a scenario of rising global temperatures well beyond what scientists have identified as safe.

"That is beyond unacceptable - that is catastrophic in its implications," he said.

Bad News For Coal from the E.P.A., but Some States Push Ahead - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

“With the barbarians at the gate having pulled up their tents and headed for the hills, we can look forward as a civilized society to tackling the critical problems of global warming, smog and soot pollution,” said John Walke, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a statement.

Heliogenic Climate Change: Renewable is good, even it emits the same CO2

Let's see, burning biomass liberates CO2 in the same way as burning fossil fuels (the same conversion of carbon to CO2 and heat is involved) and in about the same quantity per unit of heat, so according to AGW dogma burning biomass is evil, right? Wrong. You see, biomass is renewable, and to the AGW clergy renewable is good, so burning biomass is good. If the goal is to reduce CO2 emissions wouldn't it be better to bury the biomass than burn it? Oh well, can't expect consistency from the clergy