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What we do in the U.S. will not affect what happens in China and India which are some of the fastest growing economies. We must do our part, but the rest of the world needs to adopt the available technology to limit their emissions as well. Kyoto Protocol or not, China and India are horrible polluters.

Scientists Call For 80 Percent Drop In U.S. Emissions By 2050 To Avoid Dangerous Warming

Science Daily — By 2050, the United States must cut its emissions by at least 80 percent below those created in the year 2000 if the world is to avoid potentially dangerous impacts of human-induced climate change, according to a report recently released by scientists at Texas Tech University, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and Stanford University.

To avoid the most severe effects of climate change, the world must stabilize the concentration of heat trapping gases in the atmosphere at no more than 450 parts per million, said Katharine Hayhoe, an associate professor of geosciences at Texas Tech University who performed the emissions-reduction calculations for the joint report.

This 450-parts-per-million limit aims to avoid a temperature increase exceeding 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit in a global average temperature above pre-industrial levels...(complete article here).