U.S, Canada and New Zealand Start May Ease Carbon Policies

carbonemissionsIllustrating the difficulty that countries are experiencing in their attempts to reduce and set carbon emission goals to lesson their impact on global climate change, several nations including the United States may start to backpedal on their goals.

As an example, Senate Agriculture Committee chairman said the climate bill, currently under discussion in the U.S. Senate, should include an “off ramp” allowing the United States to relax its greenhouse gas rules if other nation fail to control theirs, reports Reuters.

Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin of Iowa told reporters that he would allow other nations three to five years to act to curb carbon emissions, according to the news agency.

George F. Will - Cold Shoulder to Climate 'Urgency' - washingtonpost.com

When New York Times columnist Tom Friedman called upon "young Americans" to "get a million people on the Washington Mall calling for a price on carbon," another columnist, Mark Steyn, responded: "If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been no global warming since you entered first grade."

Which could explain why the Mall does not reverberate with youthful clamors about carbon. And why, regarding climate change, the U.S. government, rushing to impose unilateral cap-and-trade burdens on the sagging U.S. economy, looks increasingly like someone who bought a closetful of platform shoes and bell-bottom slacks just as disco was dying.

It seems that these last two paragraphs were trimmed from some versions of Will's article (like this one).