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Posted on 05/28/2007 11:16:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
BERLIN - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday she led a congressional delegation to Greenland, where lawmakers saw "firsthand evidence that climate change is a reality," and she hoped the Bush administration would consider a new path on the issue.
After meeting with German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel, Pelosi praised Berlin for its leadership on the issue.
Her trip comes ahead of next week's Group of Eight summit and a climate change meeting next month involving the leading industrialized nations and during a time of increased debate over what should succeed the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 international treaty that caps the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted from power plants and factories in industrialized countries. It expires in 2012.
President Bush rejected that accord, saying it would harm the U.S. economy and unfair excludes developing countries like China and India from its obligations. Pelosi, who strongly disagrees with that decision and many other of Bush's environmental policies, said Friday she said she wants to work with the administration rather than provoke it.
Pelosi said she hoped Bush would be open to considering a "different way" in the future.
The California Democrat pointed to her delegation's weekend stop in Greenland, "where we saw firsthand evidence that climate change is a reality; there is just no denying it."
"It wasn't caused by the people of Greenland — it was caused by the behavior of the rest of the world," she said.
Scientists have noticed that Greenland's output of ice into the North Atlantic had increased dramatically, doubling over the decade that ended in 2005.
"We hope that we can all assume our responsibilities with great respect and that our administration will be open to listening to why it is important to go forward perhaps in a different way than we have proceeded in the past," she told reporters.
Gabriel and Chancellor Angela Merkel have made the fight against global warming a key point of Germany's presidencies of the G-8 and European Union. Still, Merkel has said that progress at the June 6-8 summit in Heiligendamm is not assured.
According to comments on a document released by the environmental group Greenpeace, the Bush administration is preparing to reject new targets on climate change at the summit. The White House declined to confirm the comments were from U.S. officials.
"We regret very much that we must so far have the impression that it is difficult to reach concrete results with the American administration," Gabriel said after meeting Pelosi.
Gabriel said industrial nations must take joint responsibility for the global warming that has occurred thus far.
"For the climate change of the future ... we need readiness on the part of China, India and today's other developing countries to take responsibility themselves," he added. "We can and will only achieve that if industrial nations do justice to their responsibility."
Pelosi, who is to meet with Merkel on Tuesday, said she wanted to "salute Germany's leadership on this very important issue," and said she hoped for a diplomatic debate within the United States.
Gabriel welcomed increasing interest in climate change at state and city level in the U.S. and hailed Pelosi's decision to set up a select committee on energy and global warming.
"This shows that there is a great deal of movement in the United States, too, and we naturally hope that we will achieve progress in Heiligendamm," he said.
The G-8 meeting has already drawn protests from antiglobalization activists; 21 demonstrators were arrested Monday during unrest that broke out after a march in Hamburg.
BERLIN - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday she led a congressional delegation to Greenland,
Fitting that she would be in Berlin on our Memorial Day. What War on Terror? Maybe I missed it, but did she have anything to say about appreciating our troops, past and present, yesterday?
I wonder if Nancy ever stopped to wonder why Greenland is called Greenland? Oh wait, the answer to that question would open a whole can of worms......
Since the climate has always been in a state of change, it is almost a certainty it is in a state of change today.
What proven scientific facts does she base her opinions on? I would really like to know.
Who are you or who am i to judge about such a complicate issue. Where do you get your wisdom from while the scientific community (at least the serious guys) has a complete different opinion.
I think this is or could be much to serious for cheap politics. it is not a question of left and right. it is a question of right and wrong and if you have no doubts here than you have at least no idea what you are talking about.
Tell the Chinese to stop building coal burning plants.
Climate change IS a reality, can’t fault her there.
Anthropogenic climate change, OTH, is nonsense.
“Her stupidity knows no bounds.”
Einstein must have had her in mind when he said this: “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
I wonder why they named it Greenland in the first place. HMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm...
Known otherwise throughout the world as ... spring.
And she knows this statement to be true?
“Climate change IS a reality, can’t fault her there.
Anthropogenic climate change, OTH, is nonsense.”
Dead on accurate. And it’s these people’s reaction to the second half of your statement that is critical. They seek to destroy our way of life because of it. It’s the “man made” global warming that must be fought.
Funny...I have been going to Greenland and Antarctica for 13 plus years and have NOT NOTICED any such thing. Furthermore, she is a useful liar for the new communists of the world who have a home in global warming/change as they drive that wedge between those with a brain and those with only a brain stem so as to have power in government.
The refusal to listen to the EVIDENCE by claiming that the evidence thy have seen is all they need is evidence enough of their ignorance and their purposeful agenda.
Maybe she should visit Al Gore's multiple houses and then Bush's ranch and analyze them for energy efficiency. Would she praise Bush for his non-political ACTION regarding conserving resources?
Climate change is a reality... Yesterday it was raining and today it’s sunny outside and get this… Last week it was snowing!!!
And I can hardly wait for that global warming concert thing… and it’ll probably be hot out then, because it’s being held during the summer.
It truly is an amazing thing though, this climate changing stuff (i.e. sunny one day, rainy the next and several months of the year with snow and cold), this stuff has been going on as long as I’ve been on this planet. My guess is that the climate was changing long before my arrival and that it will continue to change long after I am dead. The only question I have is this…. How much money will Al Gore and Nancy steal before people figure out that their contentions are accurate, yet complete fabrications at the same time?
The climate has warmed, that never was the issue. The issue's are, is it caused by man, that is is carbon dioxide the cause? And regardless is this a bad thing? Fact is the climate has been warming since the last ice age, with dips such as the last mini ice age. CO is only just barely accelerating it, and it is a good thing not bad.
And if she were to stop breathing.........the world would not smell of fish..............Not climate change, but close.
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