Denmark’s EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard has delivered an unusually harsh criticism, of the United States, claiming the US is ignoring scientific facts in the climate debate.
“I am shocked that the United States has a debate that is so far from scientific fact,” Hedegaard says adding that it is difficult to see “bright spots” in the American climate debate.
Although President Obama did mention climate change during his speech to the United Nations General Assembly last week, his hands are tied by a deeply sceptical Congressional majority.
Edited by Julian Isherwood