Posted on 01/14/2007 10:31:25 AM PST by blam
Bush set for climate change U-turn
Downing Street says that belated US recognition of global warming could lead to a post-Kyoto agreement on curbing emissions
Gaby Hinsliff, Juliette Jowit and Paul Harris
Sunday January 14, 2007
The Observer (UK)
George Bush is preparing to make a historic shift in his position on global warming when he makes his State of the Union speech later this month, say senior Downing Street officials. Tony Blair hopes that the new stance by the United States will lead to a breakthrough in international talks on climate change and that the outlines of a successor treaty to the Kyoto agreement, the deal to curb emissions of greenhouse gases which expires in 2012, could now be thrashed out at the G8 summit in June.
The timetable may explain why Blair is so keen to remain in office until after the summit, with a deal on protecting the planet offering an appealing legacy with which to bow out of Number 10. Bush and Blair held private talks on climate change before Christmas, and there is a feeling that the US President will now agree a cap on emissions in the US, meaning that, for the first time, American industry and consumers would be expected to start conserving energy and curbing pollution.
'We could now be seeing the beginning of a consensus on a post-Kyoto framework,' said a source close to the prime minister. 'President Bush is beginning to talk about more radical measures.'
The move will be seen as part of a wider repositioning of the Bush government after its comprehensive defeat in last autumn's mid-term elections.
A change of heart on the environment was signalled earlier this month when the US administration unexpectedly announced that polar bears were now an endangered species because their habitat
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My thoughts as well... this IS from The Guardian, their editor is not exactly a fan of the GOP.
I could have gone 'til the next election without thinking about the Kyoto agreement.
You believe the Guardian? Why don't you believe Cindy Sheehan then?
I suspect it's true since the Guardian probably has a good pipeline into 10 Downing St. This may be the price Blair's attaching to continued support of the U.S. in Iraq. But I'll wait and see. If true it's suicidal to traditional U.S. interests, but no more so than the Bush policy on illegal immigration. One will kill our economy; the other will kill the value of our citizenship and our sovereignty. Both together: stop the world, I want to get off.
Too late.
I am just stunned at how many gullible Freepers we have seemed to have lately.
I think I'll consider the source first :)
Too true!
I'm stunned at how much easier 43's made it for folks to be gulled :(
You're the only one who's buying......
This would also put a few more nails in US manufacturing as well. Look for a mass exodus of what's left of industry in our country.
Hopefully, this is not true.
From you, nothing but positive....
I'll believe it when I see it. I seriously doubt that the President is going to destroy our economy after his efforts to rebuild it.
Besides, who the hell believes these people?
are these people trying to bash blair or Bush?
"desperate to remain in office until after..."
What's interesting is that most people would assume Bush would do something like this. Why? Because you can't trust him to do things using the values of the people that got him elected.
He's let the Democrats slap him around for years without any fighting back except for watching movies and eating popcorn with Ted Kennedy in the White House.
George W. Bush has turned out to be someone way different than who I voted for. What's very distressing is that his communication skills appear to be getting worse instead of better.
Of course!!!!
Your lack of respect and faith has reduced itself to claiming the President has become so incompetent, he is now slurring his speech. You make me laugh!
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