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(13,714 posts)Following the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagan, the U.S. under pressure from other countries to do something, committed to a 4% reduction in greenhouse gases (from 1990 levels) by 2020.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=us-commits-to-greenhouse-gas-cuts-under-copenhagen-accord
This must be compared with the recommendations of climate change scientists, who warned that we must reduce greenhouse gases by 80% by 2050 in order to avoid catastrophic consequences.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-us-fuel-economy-standards
You consider that to be fulfilling 24 of 25 climate change goals? Do you really think that sugar coating our record on climate change (or anything else) is going to help our country just because we have a Democratic president?