He said the legally binding Climate Change Act should be made voluntary, or simply ignored.
Conservative climate change spokesman Alex Johnstone backed the targets and warned MSPs from voting against them as this would destabilise the political consensus that had produced Scotland's Climate Change Act.
And if those debating things like the Climate Change Act cannot even calculate the probability of two heads in a row what are they going to manage with more complex problems?
And, apart from the UK - with its world-leading Climate Change Act - it is hard to find many nations willing to commit themselves to protecting the climate through to 2050 irrespective of their competitors' actions.
Both are keen de-regulators and Mr Paterson is pushing a new " dash for gas", a policy the Committee on Climate Change says is incompatible with mandatory targets under the Climate Change Act to reduce emissions 80% by 2050.
Labour said this was a "humiliating failure" for the Lib Dems, who wanted gas banished from the electricity system almost entirely by 2030 to reduce CO2 emissions in line with the Climate Change Act, although gas will be needed as a back-up.
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He said these unabated emissions, which could amount to up to some four million tonnes of CO2 emissions per annum, were incompatible with the climate change targets set out in the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009.
The 2010 figures were the first in which annual emissions reduction targets to be set under the Climate Change (Scotland) Act.
Ms Boyack called for action from the Scottish government to reach emissions targets set out in the 2009 Climate Change (Scotland) Act.
The Scottish government is committed to reducing emissions by at least 80 per cent by 2050 as outlined in the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009.
MSPs passed what is reputed to be one of the world's most ambitious legislation to cut carbon emissions by 42% by 2020, under the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009.
The authors say that the predicted shallow depth of these methane reserves means that they could be destabilised by climate change, and might act as a positive feedback on global warming.
In June 2009, MSPs unanimously passed what is reputed to be one of the world's most ambitious legislation to cut carbon emissions by 42% by 2020, under the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009.
She said the publication of the Report on Proposals and Policies on Climate Change Targets marked the completion of the first period of "focused action" following the passage of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act.
It regreted that the cross-party support for the long-term targets in the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 had "not been followed by consensus on the urgent and radical policy changes needed to bring about a low-carbon economy".
And he vowed to act on climate change himself if Congress failed to enact legislation.
He said: "We have a moral obligation to act on climate change and influence others worldwide to do the same".
In fact, there is a perfectly good reason developing countries are unwilling to act on climate change: What they are being asked to do is more awful than climate change's implications--even if one accepts all the alarmist predictions.
The Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, established this year, has been drumming up support for the administration and Congress to act quickly on climate change, but the committee has no authority to draft legislation.
"The oceans store an enormous amount of heat energy, and they act to buffer any rapid climate change, " said Kearns.
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Organisers insist the aim of Earth Hour is to show that communities care passionately about climate change and want to keep up the pressure on governments to act decisively.
Climate Change Minister Stewart Stevenson immediately told the chamber the government would act on the Liberal Democrat suggestion to form a cross party short life working group to bring forward new targets, which would be scrutinised by the parliament.
It is also one that makes absolutely clear, in terms that anyone can understand, that climate change is urgent, unprecedented, and something that human beings must act on right away.
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With a new president and Congress in place, we must act together quickly to avoid the worst effects of climate change -- in doing so we also will find economic benefits for people the world over.
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Responding to a 2007 Supreme Court decision, Ms. Jackson has invoked the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide and other gases linked to climate change.
If, however, these climate-change casualties don't materialize, there would have been no need to act in the first place.
Members of Congress know that climate change legislation doesn't offer tangible benefits to voters, so they're unlikely to act unless they feel pressure from activists in their districts.
And to a non-obvious one: How should we act towards someone denying a cancer-diagnosis and should we treat someone denying anthropogenic climate change any differently?
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"Provided we act with sufficient speed, we will not have to make a choice between averting climate change and promoting growth and investment, " said CBI head Richard Lambert.
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