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  • Australia gets heated over French global warming threat(Howard:"silly",newsrag:"Back off,Frogs")

    11/14/2006 8:34:17 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 16 replies · 820+ views
    AFP on Yahoo ^ | 11/14/06 | AFP
    SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia has hit back at France over its threat to impose a tax on industrial goods from countries that ignore the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Prime Minister John Howard described the plan as "silly", while the mass-circulation Daily Telegraph headlined its report: "Back off, Frogs". Running across a picture of a French nuclear bomb explosion in the Pacific in 1971, a subheading read: "The French did this to our backyard and they have de Gaulle to attack us on Kyoto." Australia, like the United States, has refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on reducing the emission...