U.S. bids to stop G8 push for climate deal

Source: reuters



U.S. bids to stop G8 push for climate deal

By Jeremy Lovell 59 minutes ago

LONDON (Reuters) - The United States is battling to stop next month's Group of Eight summit in Germany from pushing for urgent talks on a new deal to fight global warming after the Kyoto Protocol lapses in 2012.

In a draft of the final communique for the June 6-8 summit seen by Reuters, Washington wants references taken out to the urgency of the climate crisis and the need for a U.N. conference in Bali in December to open talks on a new global deal.

According to the draft, the United States supports the deletion of the following paragraphs: "We firmly agree that resolute and concerted international action is urgently needed in order to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and sustain our common basis of living."

"To this end we will, in the face of the U.N. Climate Change Conference at the end of this year, send a clear message on the further development of the international regime to combat climate change."

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I am so tired of small dangerous minds controlling US policies!

These idiots in the executive branch are an evolutionary step below the average man. They are so terrified of science that I can imagine them sticking their fingers in their ears and humming "NA NA NA" everytime someone like Jim Hansen speaks on Global Warming.

Unfortunately for the world, it is up to the U.S. Congress to impeach Cheney and Bush. Meanwhile, the Bushistas continue to not just fiddle while the world burns but also to impede resolute action by the sane nations of the world.