Barack Obama

When Bill Clinton began serving as U.S. president in 1993, the issue of global warming is a problem not inviting environment that serious attention so easily ignored. However, the current global warming problem has become serious attention.

When Clinton appointed as president, ocean ice in the Arctic has been melting until the whole region Alaska, California and Texas. Global warming has increased dramatically in the 10 years since the second inauguration Bill Clinton.

The process of global warming is symbolized as a "time bomb" move more quickly. The time has been spent to avert this problem and to know Obama.

"Time to delay (the issue of global warming) has ended; time to menyangkalnya had ended," Obama said Tuesday (9 / 12) after receiving former vice president Al Gore, like the Nobel Peace for his work in global warming. "We believe that to scientists for several years that global warming is a problem the problem of emergency and national security and must be dealt with seriously."

However, Obama can not avoid the reality of economic and political issues that determine and must be addressed urgently. Although Obama discloses the global warming problem as an emergency, are still not known whether elected U.S. president and this Congress will agree on an approach during the ongoing world financial crisis, which coincides with the deadline for completion of a number of seabrek other important issues.

Obama urged changes in the way of U.S. energy use and produce greenhouse gases as part of the economic stimulus bulk. Obama mentions this as an opportunity "to empower the United States again."

After several years without any significant steps against global warming, 2009 will likely be changes in years. Obama will replace George W. Bush is against the provisions of cutting greenhouse gas pollution.

Obama steps to arrest the impact of the rate of global warming appears to be supported by Congress. In addition, next year, the U.S. diplomat will try to conclude a new international Treaty that large-scale and intended to rein in greenhouse gas pollution.

Chairman of the Senate for Environmental Affairs and Public Works, Barbara Boxer is determined to emphasize 2 curb the impact of regulations global warming from January next year. One of the regulations is to improve energy efficiency as an economic stimulus and other regulations is to create the limits and trading system that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from various furniture. "Time is now," Boxer in sepucuk write a letter to Obama on December 8.

Greenhouse gas emissions have increased 20 percent in the U.S. since 1992. At the same time, pollution, carbon dioxide (CO2) in China have increased 2-fold.

CO2 emissions have increased faster than the diskenariokan by scientists. Methan, other greenhouse gases are very dangerous, without previously suspected have been increased again, and scientists worry methan in large numbers can accelerate the process mencairnya North Pole.