Tackling Global Warming!

I read an article in the New York Times called Obama's Backing Raises Hopes for Climate Pact. This article talks about how we may now have hope to bring the World's most powerful Nations together and tackle global warming.
The attempt to do something like this in 1997 was a badly flawed plan called the Kyoto Protocol. Many countries didn't do their part to decrease carbon dioxide poisoning and the US didn't even seem to try or acknowledge they needed to. In the new protocol the US will be the, "forefront of the international climate effort and raising hopes that an effective international accord might be possible." In this protocol we will be, "reaching beyond reducing greenhouse gas emissions and including financial mechanisms and making good on longstanding promises to provide money and technical assistance to help developing countries cope with climate change." So in other words we will be doing a lot more. I feel that the reason for this is because we know now that we need to do much more because we're more informed about what is wrong in the World. Bill McKibben, who runs the environmental organization, feels that the US should take this protocol much more seriously because we learned from the Kyoto Protocol that if we don't no one does.
The article goes on to talk about how the UN's top climate official Yvo de Boer, will be making rounds and talking to everyone about the climate. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is trying to form a partnership with China on the Climate Control and expects a special envoy soon. Now the problem is going to be passing the bill, which Obama thinks it will be passed this year and to see how far everyone is willing to go. Many countries refused the Kyoto Protocol so George W. Bush rejected it.
It seems that this protocol has a much better chance than Kyoto because this time politics is involved and politics is what started it unlike Kyoto. Environmental ministers and climate scientists are who started Kyoto, for the new protocol we have higher officials, "laying the groundwork."
I love that we're coming up with a new pact with the powerful countries in the World to help save the environment. I hope that it works out much better this time than it did last time. I personally think it will though because we're finally taking it seriously because we know we have to. We have come a long way in ten years and we have learned a lot more about the environment and know we need to do something about it and soon!