BP, Ford, HSBC, BA, et. al. Call For Climate Action Now - Reuters

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LONDON, June 9 (Reuters) - "Big business added its voice on Thursday to a growing crescendo of calls on the governments of the world's richest nations to take urgent action to curb potentially catastrophic global warming. The call follows a similar appeal from the world's top scientists and comes four weeks before leaders of the Group of Eight -- along with China, Brazil, South Africa, India and Mexico -- meet in Scotland to discuss the climate crisis.

"We share the belief that climate change poses one of the most significant challenges of the 21st century," said moguls from multinationals including car maker Ford, airline British Airways, bank HSBC, electricity generator EdF and oil major BP. "We agree that the science is sufficiently compelling to warrant action by both the private and public sector, and ... action must be initiated now," the business moguls said in a statement issued in London.

While most scientists agree the burning of fossil fuels for transport and to generate electricity is a major contributor to potentially catastrophic climate change, the United States under President George W. Bush is unconvinced and antagonistic.

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To the dismay of environmental lobby groups, a leaked draft last month of the climate change declaration due from the summit at Gleneagles contained neither targets nor timetables."

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09489241.htm

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1. I don't know about the rest, but Ford has lobbied...

consistently to help kill every CAFE increase since they created CAFE. Somebody should ask if they plan to stop fighting CAFE increases, now that they've achieved climate-change enlightenment.