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" My sense that our political leaders lack both the vision and courage to help us combat global warming was sadly confirmed this weekend by an article in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/science/03climate.html).  For those who&amp;#039;d rather not wade through the whole thing, it pretty much boils down to this: The Bush administration now estimates that emissions of the greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming will rise just as much in the decade from 2002 to 2012 (11%) as they did in the previous decade (11.6%). Apparently, the voluntary caps aren&amp;#039;t working exactly as planned.  I&amp;#039;m not trying to take political sides, and it sure as heck isn&amp;#039;t like we&amp;#039;re hearing anything brilliant from the mouths of the other major political party (and if you read my post of early last week, you know that Al Gore is in danger of losing all his climate change brownie points). But doesn&amp;#039;t it seem as if we&amp;#039;ve given this administration all the latitude they deserve to make and implement climate change policy (to say nothing of other policies) for us?  &amp;quot;If the people lead, the leaders will follow.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s always seemed to me like a rather quaint and na\u00EFve notion. Now, it&amp;#039;s beginning to seem like the only hope we have. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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