The House of Representatives yesterday voted though a bill that aimed to scupper the right wing agenda by decreeing that global warming is a reality. This, after so much from Bush, who has refused to carry out positive environmental action. Arguing instead that global warming claims, are based on inconclusive scientific evidence. The Bill also goes much further than the White House had whished in funding for the environmental agenda.
This follows recent trends in America, who have for a long time was the world worse polluter. Individual states like California have for example endorsed the Kyoto Protocol, candidates in for 2008 nominations have talked more on the environment and after the last midterm elections the Democrats were able to seize control of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee from Republican James Inhofe who claimed that global warming was a hoax.
Despite this good news we must bear in mind that Kyoto laid out only a fraction of the cuts that we must achieve and the challenge to combat global warming until real cuts are achieved remains as great as ever.