Regulating the human component of global warming or climate change is in the end a political issue. The new U.S. administration will be able to show where it plans to go at an April meeting in Washington DC, in July in Italy, and finally in December in Copenhagen.

If emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are to be limited, according to some schedule, to an amount which generally accepted science suggests can avoid "dangerous" global warming, then how does that play out, when shared among the world's population? Will it be distributed equally across the board, or will some be expected to bear a larger share of the burden, and if so, how much more, and for how long?

I wonder what the demand for “immediate action” might mean in practice, and how can it be turned into reality?

It could be an interesting year in this regard.

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