Mr. Brent…

Global warming is powering up to be a big issue this election season, but my question is our we going to just talk about it in the U.S. or try and do something like are friend the U.K.?

I have just finished reading an article [BBC - Homes 'can cut CO2 by up to 80%'] on Global Warming and it seems the U.K. is very serious about the problem, but all we do in the U.S. it talk about it. The U.K. government may start making it mandatory to decreasing CO2 emissions in homes by 3.8% starting as early as next year. The ultimate goal is to have reduced CO2 emissions 60% by 2050.

“How is the average home owner in the U.K. going to pay for this? ” is what your mot likely asking yourself, and the answer is simple. The government is going to give tax incentives along with Stamp Duty rebates.

Now, I have looked around the internet for any information about current efforts to pass a law in the U.S. to make it mandatory to lower CO2 and the only place I know of that does this is California. The U.S. Federal Government hasn’t made anything mandatory; can anyone say private interests and lobbying?

The current U.S. policy concerning Global Warming or what the GOP calls “Climate Change” for the most part states that we are going to go with the current U.N. policy that is to study the problem, take action after 2012, and have until 2009 to come up with an idea of what they want to do.

With a U.N. Climate Change conference schedule for next month we all need to get in gear and tell people what needs to happen, because lets face it, politicians well not do anything for there constituents unless they are pushed into it or we have a big wallet full of green.

In the U.S. the biggest problem with getting any type of change in CO2 emissions comes down to the simple fact that to many politicians have ties to big oil companies or own parts of them, they just don’t want to give up their money, thats why they ran for office in the first place.