Don't know why, there's no sun up in the sky

Some research now hints that man is responsible for the recent strong hurricanes.

Assuming this is right, the US may finally accept that it needs to control its carbon dioxide emissions more. However, it is possible that it claims it needs to maintain present levels. It is possible that the US will claim it has the right to keep its current emissions, and that the third world should avoid increasing theirs.

The complication here is that we need a price on natural resources. The US can claim that it has the right to continue as it does today, in the same way as South Africa has the right to the diamonds that happen to be within its habitual theory and Zaire to its own gold.

The US needs to actually cut its own emissions. It needs to make itself poorer through political decisions - and that is rarely a vote winning idea.