Blair waking up?

[Richard D]

LONDON - The threat posed by climate change may be greater than previously thought, and global warming is advancing at an unsustainable rate, Prime Minister
Tony Blair said in a report published Monday.
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The government-commissioned report collates evidence presented at a conference on climate change hosted by Britain's Meteorological Office last year. It says scientists now have "greater clarity and reduced uncertainty" about the impacts of climate change.

In a foreword, Blair said it was clear that "the risks of climate change may well be greater than we thought."

"It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth from a world population that has increased six-fold in 200 years, is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable," he wrote.

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[DS1]

1. The U.S. auto-business crashing like it is has a silver-lining.

More efficient cars.

[endarkenment]

2. Blair is not Bush.

He and his labor party leadership are neocons on the left side of the neocon spectrum, kind of DLC-style neocons. So they, like Mr. Clinton, think that there really is a problem with catastrophic global climate change and that we should be galavanting around the planet using our military might to force all oil producing states to submit to our authority.

[On the Road]

3. The UK Will Probably be Hardest Hit

if the gulf stream fails. They'll be facing an Arctic Scotland and precipitously lower temperatures everywhere else in the country. He better wake up.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Blair is giving out mixed signals about climate change

Something like this makes it look as though he takes it seriously; but he's also recently said that he doesn't think mandatory limits for countries will work. See eg http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4466842.stm . I think he's realised that he won't get Bush to change his mind, but doesn't want to be seen to fail, so he's not even going to try. Stupid, really, because if he pushed for limits, it would put more pressure on Bush's successor to sign up to limits. But Blair thinks more about his own image than the future.

[applegrove]

5. Taken him a while to realize he was dancing for the elites in the

USA and starting wars & ending them on a timelines politically expedient for the BUSH WH.

So too - traditional non-american churches seem to be waking up. And seeing the "message of Jesus'love" erased from the version of Christianity so well funded by the elites in the USA.

As a politician, a european, a religious type and a human being - he should be waking up.

[Odin2005]

6. Bush and blair are only similar in international affairs.

Domestically Blair is a Bill Clinton clone.

[Imagevision]

7. Blair to join Carlye Group when he's finished in Britain - imagine that