The Group of Eight (G8) leading industrial polluters [search] the United States, Japan, Russia, Germany, France, Britain, Canada and Italy have "endorsed halving world emissions of greenhouse gases [ark | moreark] by 2050." Great news, right? Wrong! This is over 40 years away. What will these G8 nations do tomorrow, next week, next year and by 2010 and 2015? I concur the pledge is worse than worthless [ark].
Continued focusing upon these long-term climate goals [search] wastes time and provides little guidance on how climate sustainability will be achieved. They divert attention from immediate major changes in coal use, rainforest logging, energy efficiency and conservation, and ramping up renewable energy that deperately need to start now. The longer we wait, the more costly and...