London Observer: New US move to spoil climate accord

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Extraordinary efforts by the White House to scupper Britain's attempts to tackle global warming have been revealed in leaked US government documents obtained by The Observer.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1509839,00.html

The documents show that Washington officials:

· Removed all reference to the fact that climate change is a 'serious threat to human health and to ecosystems';

· Deleted any suggestion that global warming has already started;

· Expunged any suggestion that human activity was to blame for climate change.

Among the sentences removed was the following: 'Unless urgent action is taken, there will be a growing risk of adverse effects on economic development, human health and the natural environment, and of irreversible long-term changes to our climate and oceans.'

[applegrove]

1. #4 - Give all aides a job at Exxon! n/t

[acmavm]

2. All these leaks coming out of Britian. It's absolutely hilarious. It's

almost as if they are tired of being the whipping boy for the US and the bush** cabal.

edit: To say more power to the British and their independent an honest media!!

[Kipling]

3. The Guardian and the Times are great.

I buy them both, despite the Times's political rightishness. I especially like the Guardian: you'll never find a better paper. Founded in 1821 to support the working class fight against the Corn Laws, and it's never lost its principles.

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4. Thank all that's righteous and good in this world for that. I TRULY

believe that the British press is the reason why we are making headway against this corrupt administration now. Our own homegrown fraud media is so corrupt and complicit in this this administration's criminal activities that we wouldn't have a chance if it was up to them.

[DemoTex]

5. Never have so few (Bu$hco) lied about so much affecting so many.

The Bu$h regime never tells the truth, even by mistake. Bu$hco will lie when the truth is not only obvious, but 1000% easier. It is a sinister, pathological lying that best characterizes Bu$h, Cheney, and their cabal. The Bu$h regime will go down as one of the vilest in modern history. Mark my word.