Bush under pressure at climate change conference

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: Reuters

By Jeff Mason 3 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush kicks off the second day of a conference on global warming on Friday under pressure from the world's major economies to accept binding limits on emissions of greenhouse gases.

Bush called the meeting as a precursor to United Nations talks in Bali in December, which will aim to launch a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that set limits on industrial nations' emissions.

Environmentalists said the conference produced nothing new and was an attempt to circumvent U.N. efforts on climate change, a charge Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denied.

Participants will watch Bush, who favors voluntary targets to curb emissions, for any shift in the U.S. position.

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[Whoa_Nelly]

1. He'll throw a hissyfit, tell the world how things REALLY need to be

And that limiting pollution would be harmful to corporations and endangers democracy and freedoms around the globe...and will say all this and more while trying to give someone a shoulder rub while he's also kissing a bald guy, and then will leave to go on a bathroom break by trying to open a fake locked door.

[deacon]

2. Why does he need Rice to help him??? He can't handle it - he can't handle it.

Pathetic. He reminds me of Dole carrying the message of "nicotine is not addicting."

[calimary]

3. Because his girlfriend has to be on hand to be the official arbiter on

when he can go to the bathroom.

Then she has to take him to the little boy's room, make sure he remembers to wipe himself and zip up, and then compliment him on how big he is.

[Thor_MN]

4. The only pressure his handlers let him feel is about 14 lbs per square inch

He is blissfully ignorant of any of the pressures that the rest of the world faces. He believes he is chosen, therefore he shouldn't have to face any problems. Anything he does is gawd's will, so he doesn't even have to feel responsible for any of his prodigious body of work in the arena of f@ckups.