Bush again puts U.S. at edge of global warming debate

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Source: iht

Bush again puts U.S. at edge of global warming debate
By Steven Lee Myers
Sunday, September 23, 2007

WASHINGTON: Dozens of world leaders are to gather at the United Nations in New York on Monday for a full agenda of talks on how to fight global warming, but President George W. Bush is skipping all the day's events except the dinner.

His focus instead is on his own gathering of leaders in Washington later in the week, a meeting with the same stated goal - a reduction in the emissions blamed for climate change - but a fundamentally different idea of how to achieve it.

Bush's aides say that the parallel meeting does not compete against the UN process - hijacking it, as his critics charge. They say that Bush hopes to persuade the nations that produce 90 percent of the world's emissions to come to a consensus that would allow each nation, including the United States, to set its own limits rather than having limits imposed by a binding international treaty.

"It's our philosophy that each nation has the sovereign capacity to decide for itself what its own portfolio of policies should be," said James Connaughton, the president's chief environmental adviser.

Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/23/america/climate.php

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1. Bush's meeting in Washington, held over two days, involves only 15 countries, or major economies

Ban Ki Moon, secretary general of the United Nations, scheduled the forum Monday to jump-start talks on how to replace Kyoto, saying an agreement needed to be reached by 2009 to avoid "any vacuum" after its restrictions lapse. Negotiators are to begin those talks in December in Bali, Indonesia.

"Climate change is a challenge to our leadership, skills and vision," Ban said at the UN headquarters last week, "and we have to address that challenge boldly."

About 80 heads of states or government are expected to attend the meeting; 154 leaders and officials have signed up to speak. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will represent the United States, although Bush will attend a private dinner Monday night. Michael Kozak, a National Security Council official, called that event a "working dinner format."

Bush's meeting in Washington, held over two days, involves only 15 countries, or major economies as the White House calls them, as well as the United Nations and the European Union. The 15 countries, though, are the major emitters of greenhouse gases........

[rayofreason]

3. The biggest 15...

...produce almost all the CO2. China is the world's biggest CO2 producer, and it will only get bigger as the Chinese economy expands.

[FREEWILL56]

2. Decide its own portfolio of policies?

That's just saying do what you want to do and is no different than what they currently do as there is no global warming problem worth their profits and let the next generation be damned to worry about what we're not doing now. Same bs, same sobs. Nothing changes.:hurts:

[DRoseDARs]

4. He's just bumming dinner from the UN? Ha, what a loser. n/t

[frogcycle]

5. in other words

go fuck yourself, world

[RestoreGore]

6. Bush and his enablers are accomplices in killing this planet for future generations

"It's our philosophy that each nation has the sovereign capacity to decide for itself what its own portfolio of policies should be," said James Connaughton, the president's chief environmental adviser."

And this is nothing more than double talking BULL SHIT for keeping the status quo. And they have no "philosophy." They run on IDEOLOGY, and that's BULL SHIT too.

[ananda]

7. There is NO gw "debate"!!!!

The facts are in. The science speaks.

GW is a fait accompli. Irreparable damage
has been done, enough to impact significantly
on the planet's ability to support humanity.

Again, there is NO debate!!!!!

[Lautremont]

8. Let's see:

- Humans can't control the sun.
- What killed the dinosaurs?
- I remember some cold days last winter!
- Some bullshit about a hockey stick.
- Beachfront property for all!

That's all the stupid ass "comebacks" from the I'm-not-listening-naaaa-naaaaa crowd that I can think of. That's the extent of the "debate." Those pathetic people make me ill.

[depakid]

9. I guess James Connaughton has never heard of NAFTA and the WTO

either that- or he's completely clueless (or more likely- just another liar)

"It's our philosophy that each nation has the sovereign capacity to decide for itself what its own portfolio of policies should be," said James Connaughton, the president's chief environmental adviser.

:banghead:

[LeftHander]

10. Bush perpetuates myth of global warming "debate"

He promotes paid non-science, funded by oil companies. His whole policy is about keepiong the richgetting richer at the expense of our planet.