I can persuade George Bush on climate change - Blair

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

I can persuade George Bush on climate change - Blair

· Exclusive interview with PM on eve of G8 summit
· Claim that US will agree to greenhouse gas target

Patrick Wintour and Larry Elliott
Wednesday June 6, 2007
The Guardian

Tony Blair insisted yesterday that he could persuade President Bush to
agree for the first time to a global target for a "substantial cut" in
greenhouse gases within a framework sanctioned by the United Nations.

In an interview with the Guardian on the eve of the G8 summit, the prime
minister said both elusive goals were now achievable and that America was
"on the move" in its position on climate change.

Although Mr Blair said it would take tough negotiations over the next three
days and it was still unclear exactly what the president would agree to, he
was sure Mr Bush's speech last week, in which he talked about establishing
a US-led initiative to tackle global warming, was not a ploy to undermine
the UN or the G8.

-snip-

Contemplating leaving the summit without a deal, or at least the framework
for one, he acknowledged: "Failure is if there is not an agreement that
leads to a global deal with substantial reduction in emissions at the heart
of it."

-snip-

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g8/story/0,,2096435,00.html

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Poor, poor Tony Blair. When has Bush ever listened to him?

[rosesaylavee]

1. Poor poodle.

How disillusioned will he be when * doesn't even return his calls after he leaves office?

[jose1701]

2. Blair is such a bitch

I STILL don't understand how he became such a war monger.

[Auntie Bush]

3. Everyone close to bush becomes a war monger! He sends off

evil vibrations as he's the devil himself. Remember the bulge in his jacket in the debate with Kerry? Well, that was his tail tucked up neatly in his jacket. Remember all the wounds on his face? That's where his horns were surgically removed...but they started growing in again and he showed up with more wounds. Devils don't know how to ride bikes and that's why he always falls off.