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EastofEdon Donating Member (435 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 03:30 AM
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is * proud of being 'evil'?
Edited on Fri Jun-17-05 03:41 AM by EastofEdon
is there any limit?
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U.S. Pressure Weakens G-8 Climate Plan
Global-Warming Science Assailed

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 17, 2005; A01

Bush administration officials working behind the scenes have succeeded in weakening key sections of a proposal for joint action by the eight major industrialized nations to curb climate change.

Under U.S. pressure, negotiators in the past month have agreed to delete language that would detail how rising temperatures are affecting the globe, set ambitious targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions and set stricter environmental standards for World Bank-funded power projects, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. Negotiators met this week in London to work out details of the document, which is slated to be adopted next month at the Group of Eight's annual meeting in Scotland.

The administration's push to alter the G-8's plan on global warming marks its latest effort to edit scientific or policy documents to accord with its position that mandatory carbon dioxide cuts are unnecessary. Under mounting international pressure to adopt stricter controls on heat-trapping gas emissions, Bush officials have consistently sought to modify U.S. government and international reports that would endorse a more aggressive approach to mitigating global warming.

Last week, the New York Times reported that a senior White House official had altered government documents to emphasize the uncertainties surrounding the science on global warming. That official, White House Council on Environmental Quality chief of staff Phillip Cooney, left the administration last Friday to take a public relations job with oil giant Exxon Mobil, a leading opponent of mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/AR2005061601666_pf.html

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Meeker Morgan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 03:48 AM
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1. I don't think he thinks he's evil. n/t
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 05:53 AM
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3. He thinks he's "forthright" and "courageous"
That he sticks to his guns and has "that vision thing" that his Daddy never got.

-the nakedness of this emperor is stark indeed-
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EastofEdon Donating Member (435 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 01:42 PM
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4. "that vision thing"
ain't it beautiful?



Fallujah
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 05:50 AM
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2. He reminds me of a character out of Hans Christian Anderson, someone
who thinks he is very clever, but in fact is an abject fool and is always getting himself into trouble.
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samsingh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 01:49 PM
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5. i think he's proud of the fact that he's controlling everything
with all his twisted allies, he's the biggest threat to democrasy in the world today.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 04:50 PM
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6. He thinks he is all white light. The perfect patsy. n/t
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