Curbing global warming: mission impossible?
Washington
ON climate change, we need to go beyond the tired storyline of "deniers" versus the "scientific consensus". Until it's discredited by falling temperatures, global warming is a reality. We can still debate how much has occurred and the share attributable to human activity, but the more relevant question is what - if anything - can be done about it.
President Barack Obama's plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions from electric power plants, accounting for roughly one-third of US greenhouse emissions, shows the practical limits in a democratic society.
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