New Scientist: President Barack Obama yesterday vowed to put the fight against global warming at the heart of his next four-year term in office.
Sweeping aside years of American prevarication on whether to act on emissions, Obama promised the US would lead the world in its efforts to curb global warming, and in the development of the technologies to achieve this goal.
"We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations," he said...