US Will Fight Any Recommendation From Arctic Council Climate Report

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The Bush administration has been working for months to keep an upcoming eight-nation report from endorsing broad policies aimed at curbing global warming, according to domestic and foreign participants, despite the group's conclusion that Arctic latitudes are facing historic increases in temperature, glacial melting and abrupt weather changes.

State Department representatives have argued that the group, which has spent four years examining Arctic climate fluctuations, lacks the evidence to prepare detailed policy proposals. But several participants in the negotiations, all of whom requested anonymity for fear of derailing the Nov. 24 report, said officials from the eight nations and six indigenous tribes involved in the effort had ample science on which to draft policy

The recommendations are based on a study, which was leaked last week, that concludes the Arctic is warming much faster than other areas of the world and that much of this change is linked to human-generated greenhouse gas emissions. The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment -- produced by a council of nations with Arctic territory that includes the United States, Canada, Russia and several Nordic countries -- reflects the work of more than 300 scientists.

Several individuals close to the negotiations said the Bush administration -- which opposes mandatory cuts in carbon emissions on the grounds that they will cost American jobs -- had repeatedly resisted even mild language that would endorse the report's scientific findings or call for mandatory curbs on greenhouse gas emissions."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23541-2004Nov3.html

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Shocking

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2. Shocking, SHOCKING, I tell you!

Good to see that Paula Dolbriansky is still on her knees, diligently sucking away.

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3. I predict that any time now, the rest of the world is going to

write us off, and just quit waiting for us to get on board. They'll start doing their best to solve these problems on their own.

Obviously, that will make it an uphill battle, since we represent so much of the problem. But really, the rest of the world can't afford to wait for us.

[Combat Honey]

4. Bush's government put off the release of this Report...

...after the election. The report was bout to come out already before the elections but Bush put off the publication day until 8th of November.

So they said in tv -news here in Finland.

-Johanna