Climate Delegates Tell US To Stop Preaching, Ask Gore "What Happened With Your Country?"

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Environmental experts have strongly urged the United States and other industrialized nations not to preach about global warming until they take real and concrete steps of their own to tackle the burgeoning problem.

Yoshio Yatsu, president of the Japan-based Global Legislators Organizations for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE), told the participants of a special panel discussion on global warming at the Inter-Parliamentary Union's (IPU) 116th assembly on Wednesday that the U.S. should first ratify the Kyoto Protocol and implement its accords before pointing its finger at other nations over their inaction in tackling global warming.

The Japanese government and legislators recently received former U.S. vice president and noted global warming crusader Al Gore, Yatsu said. "We asked him what happened with your country."

The U.S. has been the world's highest emitter of greenhouse gases and should take responsibility for enforcing actions to eliminate or reduce the severe impacts of global climate change, he said. As of December 2006, 169 countries have ratified Kyoto, while another 25 have not yet signed the protocol. The U.S. has signed, but has no intention of ratifying it.

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1. Bush has a band-aid approach at the moment and we will go no further

until he is GONE.