The Climate Change Summit

Yesterday, over a hundred world leaders met at the UN to discuss the rising issue of global warming. The two most notable figures in the meeting were our very own Mr Obama, and China's president Hu Jintao, who collectively comprise 40% of the world's greenhouse gas accumulation.

It's astounding that we contribute 20% of the world's greenhouse gasses to the environment, that is warming the climate and destroying the ice caps along with many arctic ecosystems as well as endangering our own futures with rising water levels and a destroyed ozone layer.

But, the two leading contributors to the world's largest problem has agreed to begin contributing to the solution, instead of the cause. It was announced that in less than three months, in Copenhagen, new talks will be opened to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, that was originally enacted to help reduce emissions, that George Bush refused to sign in 2005 as it would "hurt the economy"(and his wars didn't?).

America and Mr. Obama's main obstacle in reducing emissions and passing laws to help that cause is convincing legislature to pass the deals that may arise in the near future. Hopefully, with the coming meeting in Copenhagen, the two emissions giants will take more responsibility for the state of the environment.

I myself hope that there will be some definite shows of progress once the meeting in Copenhagen takes place and that this isn't just a show of smoke and mirrors and will be taken seriously by the world leaders who are most responsible.

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