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Tell that to the bulldozer coming up in Paris Dec 2015 where a world wide treaty will be signed to reduce CO2 emissions world wide, which will require CO2 capture and conversion to useful products, or disposal/burial... etc

I made the mistake of ignoring that bulldozer in 1986 when the Montreal protocol put me out of the chlorinated solvents business (CFCs was the acronym). Been an environmental chemical engineering consultant to US industry since then getting paid to advise them on when where and how to avoid getting run over by that bulldozer.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/31/us-set-to-propose-emissions-cuts-of-28-ahead-of-global-climate-treaty

With the US pledge, the countries accounting for nearly 60% of greenhouse gas emissions from energy have outlined their plans for fighting climate change in the 2020s and beyond, the White House said in a conference call with reporters.

“That’s a big deal,” Brian Deese, the White House climate adviser wrote in a blog post announcing the pledge. “The United States’ target is ambitious and achievable, and we have the tools we need to reach it.”

Deese told the conference call the US expected to achieve emissions cuts of 26% to 28% by 2025 relative to 2005 levels and was on track for an 80% cut in emissions by 2050.

The climate commitments would be “locked in” by the time Barack Obama leaves, and could not easily be reversed by a Republican president or Republicans in Congress, officials told the conference call.

“The undoing of the kind of regulations that we are putting in place is something that is very tough to do,” Todd Stern, the state department climate envoy, said. “The kind of regulation we are putting in place does not get easily undone.”

Some 33 countries have now committed to specific goals for fighting climate change, according to the United Nations agency overseeing the negotiations.

In addition to the US, the European Union, Mexico, Norway and Switzerland have outlined their plans to fight climate change after 2020, when the current commitments expire.

Those plans, and those of other countries offered over the next few months, will serve as the building blocks of an international agreement at Paris that is intended to limit warming to 2C, the threshold for dangerous climate change, Stern told the call.

Deese said the Obama Administration was on track to achieve those emissions cuts using existing legal authority, and that the US was on track to achieve emissions cuts of 80% by 2050, based on steps already set in motion by Barack Obama.

“We have the tools we need to meet this goal and take action on climate pollution,” Deese told the call.