Bush calls for biggest greenhouse-gas emitters to cut emissions--but not before "the end of 2008"

[BurtWorm]

From the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2092628,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront


Bush calls for action by biggest greenhouse emitters


Mark Tran and Will Woodward in Johannesburg
Thursday May 31, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

George Bush today called on the world's biggest polluters to set goals on curbing greenhouse gases, in the US president's clearest admission yet of the threat posed by climate change.

The US would also cut tariff barriers to sharing environmental technology, Mr Bush said. The president was speaking in Washington ahead of next week's G8 summit in Germany, where climate change will be a major issue.

The US strategy calls for a consensus on long-term goals for reducing the greenhouse gases that lie behind global warming, but not before the end of 2008, the White House said.

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Tony Blair immediately hailed Mr Bush's announcement as "a huge step forward".

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Tony Juniper, the head of Friends of the Earth, said: "This is a deliberate and carefully crafted attempt to derail any prospect of a climate change agreement (at the G8 summit) in Germany next week. is trying to destroy the prospect of that getting anywhere by announcing his own parallel process with very vaguely expressed objectives ... Basically we should see this as a delaying tactic to keep the climate change issue off his back in terms of any real decisions until he leaves office (in early 2009)."

[SharonRB]

1. A note on your avatar

Shouldn't you change it to a CFL?

:rofl:

[BurtWorm]

3. Hmm...

:think:

D'oh!

[IChing]

4. LOL.....or at least a LED?

[radfringe]

2. ohhh geee Mr. pResident

does kyoto ring a bell??? ARRRGGGHHH!!!!

[BurtWorm]

5. See how the Washington Post is spinning this?

:puke:

Bush Proposes Talks on Warming
Pre-Summit Speech Marks Shift by U.S.

By Michael A. Fletcher and Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, May 31, 2007; Page A01

President Bush sought yesterday to take the initiative :wtf: on global warming talks in which the administration had previously been a reluctant participant, offering to launch negotiations aimed at having the world's most prolific polluters agree on long-term goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The proposal, which Bush unveiled in a speech outlining his priorities for the Group of Eight summit in Germany next week, signaled a shift :wtf: in the administration's often-criticized approach to combating global warming while offering what the president called a "new framework" for addressing the issue.



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VIDEO |President Bush urged 15 major nations to agree on a global emissions goal for reducing greenhouse gases and to reach a consensus by next year.

<Hey, idiots! Bush is playing catch up to the leaders while pretending to lead! :grr: >


Though the president is still not backing a mandatory cap on carbon dioxide emissions, he made it clear that he would like the United States to play a major role :eyes: in shaping global environmental policy after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. :think:

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[Bluebear]

6. So Gore was right, you monkey. nt