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Meanwhile, action to thwart catastrophic climate change is becoming increasingly urgent, and the U.S. Chamber's corporate campaigns to preserve the fossil fuel industry's unsustainable status quo are growing in intensity.
American officials accused China of thwarting a climate change deal in Copenhagen and Chinese leaders threatened to punish the United States for a $6 billion weapons deal for Taiwan.
"The Republican platform slated for approval at the party's convention," writes Ben Geman in The Hill, "includes expanded offshore oil-and-gas development, opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling rigs and thwarting Environmental Protection Agency climate change regulations".
David Cameron's attempt to neutralise the toxic political issue of airport expansion until after the next election has been thwarted by the climate change watchdog, which has announced it will report this summer on the impact of the plans on the UK's climate commitments.
But challenges in Congress, Brune recognized, could thwart legislative action on climate change.
"Unless 'climate change' becomes a non-issue, meaning that the Kyoto proposal is defeated and there are no further initiatives to thwart the threat of climate change, there may be no moment when we can declare victory for our efforts".
Emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane have surged in the past decade, threatening to thwart global attempts to combat climate change.
It's heartening that New Zealand has recently granted residency to a family from Tuvalu, accepting their landmark claim that climate change effectively thwarted their return home.
