"One wonders what it will take to bestir the Bush administration on the subject of global warming. Everywhere one looks nowadays - London, Moscow, even the odd precinct on Capitol Hill - there is evidence of mounting impatience with Washington's refusal to face up to the threat. While the links between global warming and Florida's serial hurricanes are largely theoretical, even the weather seems to be telling the politicians that it is time to start paying attention.
Certainly Tony Blair thinks so. In a forceful recent speech before business leaders in London, Mr. Blair, in many other respects a Bush loyalist, called global warming "the world's greatest environmental challenge," implicitly rebuking the administration for its repudiation of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Mr. Blair said he would put the issue near the top of the agenda at next year's G-8 meeting of industrialized nations, over which Britain will preside.
In Moscow, a hitherto skeptical Russian government has set in motion legislative action that could lead to Russia's approval of the Kyoto agreement. That would bring the treaty into force and enlist Moscow in a global effort to reduce greenhouse gases. It would also isolate the United States from the various mechanisms, including an emissions trading system, envisioned by Kyoto."
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