Two of President Bush's onetime and possibly
future political rivals joined forces today to warn that the nation's isolation from a global
warming pact could hurt American businesses as well as the environment and said that they wanted to guide the nation toward
limits on
greenhouse gases.
Because nations have failed to make commitments to reduce global
greenhouse gas emissions to levels that will
limit future warming do 2 °C, there is an increasing sense of urgency among climate scientists around the world on the need for all nations to significantly increase their
greenhouse gas emissions reductions commitments to their fair share of safe global emissions.