U.S.(Bush) defends breakaway Sydney climate talks

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06390362.htm

WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Friday defended its role in breakaway six-nation climate talks in Australia next week and said they complemented the Kyoto Protocol and were not aimed at replacing it.

Senior State Department official Paula Dobriansky deflected criticism by environmental groups over the Asia-Pacific climate pact meeting in Sydney. Greenpeace and others say it is aimed at subverting the Kyoto Protocol, which obliges rich nations to cut industrial emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide.

"We do not see this as a replacement, we see it as a complement to the Kyoto Protocol," Dobriansky said.

Greenpeace panned the first meeting of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate and said it amounted to a voluntary agreement that had no specific timeline to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...

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1. Of course he does...

...all the while California has seen some major flooding and mud slides this past week. Oh but he doesn't care about THAT blue state. Oh but wait, one would think he would care about the fires in Oklahoma?

Then we have the serious fires that were burning in three states around Australia this past week. And the fact that Australia reported recently that 2005 was the hottest year for this country, EVER (which says a lot about climate change.) One would think he would care about one of his lap dance buddies country!

Typical oil man though, don't try to solve the problem of climate change, just buy as much time as possible to help ya friends make even more money.