The Raleigh News & Observer, in an editorial, said President Obama's anticipated "call for cutting [GHG] emissions by 17 percent relative to 2005 levels over the next 10 years and by 83 percent compared to those 2005 figures by 2050" holds the potential to at last give the electric industry some direction. The News & Observer quoted Pew Center on Global Climate Change President Eileen Claussen's comments to the New York Times: "Industry needs certainty, and without a very strong role played by the administration, they are not likely to get it."
The newspaper wrote: "That seems to reflect a key part of the reason for delay after delay in action on a national policy about emissions--that specific goals have been hard to come by." The editorial said the climate change debate had been "complicated by recent disclosures of e-mail correspondence among some scientists. Critics say the e-mails show suppression of data indicating that climate change and the human activities thought to worsen it aren't as problematic as environmentalists say they are. Universities involved in this area of research are investigating, as they should. Still, much credible evidence suggests that the effects of greenhouse gases are very real and acute. And would we rather be safe, or take a chance on sorry?"
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