US energy secretary urges action on climate change
By MEERA SELVA , 05.26.09
The U.S. energy secretary said Tuesday that he’s had enough of talk about fighting global warming. He wants action and has pledged that America will act first to help move along the talk.
And if others, especially new No. 1 carbon dioxide emitter China, are waiting for U.S. action, they’ll get it, said Steven Chu, a Nobel-Prize winning physicist who has long warned of the dangers of global warming.
“The U.S. will move, inevitably it will move first, as a more developed country we should be moving first, and I hope China will follow,” he said.