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简介：The U.S. is second only to China in emitting gases that cause global warming. Above, the smoke stacks at American Electric Power's Mountaineer power plant in West Virginia.




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Alden Meyer
the Union of Concerned Scientists
U.S.
President Obama
Scott Barrett
Columbia University

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Alden Meyer, at the Union of Concerned Scientists, says the weak actions domestically, mean the U.S. doesn't have much leverage in the international talks. The U.S. is not able to show its partners how we are going to meet the 17 percent reduction that President Obama committed to. Also, we are struggling to come up with our fair share of the financing for developing country action on technology, on adaptation, on preserving forests. And so, we're not bringing a lot to the table. For years, Europe has taken the lead at the international talks. But the EU hasn't gotten others to follow. Scott Barrett at Columbia University holds out hope that things would be better if the United States led the way. If you look at lots of global issues in the past, where we've had success, we've also had U.S. leadership. On this issue we've not had proper U.S. leadership. The great challenge is to identify actions that every major player is willing to take, actions that can make a difference to the climate without upsetting economic competitiveness around the world. What's politically possible may not be as much as scientists say we need to accomplish to stabilize the planet's atmosphere. But Barrett says we need to start somewhere. I'm not unrealistic about what we're able to achieve, but I'm very confident we can achieve more than we have done so far, which is basically zero. And he adds, climate change is the hardest problem the world has ever tried to address collectively.