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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You have GOT to be kidding me. Thanks, G.W.!
You're showing your ignorance. Name one that we kept secret and that folks who wanted to see it had to FOIA it to read.
"Does my right hon. Friend find it bizarre — as I do — that the yoghurt- and muesli-eating, Guardian-reading fraternity are only too happy to protect the human rights of people engaged in terrorist acts, but never once do they talk about the human rights of those who are affected by them?"
sure we are
Where is the veto pen again?
You know the one he promised to use on mccain-feingold?
I guess he lost it.
In light of that, trust but verify isn't displaying prejudice. It's just common sense.
The Guardian (UK) is a tabloid newspaper. I'd go slow on believing anything in it if I were you.
*sigh* Are there ,any more issues he can betray this country with? What's next, ICC?
America needs to 'cooperate' in the Kyoto accord so that the falsely named "free trade" agenda of the corrupt globalists in our government can be advanced. Kyoto is a bargaining chip for the falsely named "free trade" agreements with the third world,China and India and Africa.
Its all about suffocating the American economy so that the 'boats' of the third world and lifted, and the transnational can make money outside of the influence of the American people.
Mewz, that has not been signed by the President. It is still an internal document.
Upon release (if he ever intends on signing it), there is time for debate on it, indeed, Congress has to ratify it IIRC.
How about lets wait and see before we tar and feather Bush. In fact, let's not only see what's said in the SOTU address but what actually makes it into legislation that passes both houses and is signed into law before we stick a knife in the guy, hmmmm....?
The source is a Leftist tabloid (similar to hemorroid) rag out if the UK.
Now get yourself some knee braces, that has to hurt!
When he invites Al Gore and Schwarzenkennedy to the WH to discuss the issue at a asummit, let me know. It may be time to fold up the big tent and move on come that day. ;-)
'Til then, we need to speed up the building of nuclear power plants,, and don't subsidize and patronize the alternative energy freaks and activists that carry on with this PassionPlay in public daily, in both parties. They are participating in othing more than a massive wealth transfer and emiisions trading scheme program for the rich and connnected, nothing more.
Yeah, really. Bush should be impeached for all the things reports in lefty newspapers said he would do and he didn't.
Ya think? Ya mean it hasn't changed its stripes since its days as the ultra-left-wing Manchester Guardian? What does that have to do with its sources? The New York Times is far left but it breaks White House secrets almost weekly. Leakers are leakers the world over.
What is sad is that these people subconsciously place these things in their mental filing cabinet under "Rotten things Bush did" and then when they're asked about it, their list is shorter than they thought it was.
But they're still angry with him. They just can't remember why.
If he was serious about the WOT our borders would have been sealed on 9-12-01. Illegal aliens and criminals have a right to collect Social Security. Our social programs are exploding. Terrorist are gonna have 'rights'. Our schools are now so leftist it's unbelievable.
Newspapers at will print our national secrets with no thought of Judicial retribution because there is none. Our government tried to postpone saddams execution. Three thousand of our bravest died to rid the world of that dangerous bastard.
Our prisons are filled with illegal aliens who rape, murder, and rob American citizens. Who pays the tab for their incarceration American taxpayers, the same people they are murdering.
All-in-all, this country has gone to hell in a hand basket since his reelection. I see what I see.
I know. I didn't bother clicking the link, but I noticed "could".
More morons on this thread than a typical NAU thread.
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