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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23032890

Whatever the efficacy or otherwise of the proposed actions, I'd suggest that politically this is quite a big deal, and to be welcomed.

And I suspect, to be ignored. I will believe it when (if) it happens.There is a significant problem with:

He also unveiled plans for an expansion of renewable energy projects, ...........

This is dreaming, "renewables" will never allow BAU, it's just pretence. They will frack themselves into oblivion before anything is done.

I like Roger Harrabin's analogy yesterday on R4. What the scientists say we need to do is like climbing to the summit of Everest. Obama is walking towards base-camp.

Still, it's a necessary walk.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, said imposing carbon rules on power plants amounted to a "war on coal".

Great.