Blair Urges "Dialogue" With US On Climate Change - Reuters

LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday urged a new international dialogue with the United States on climate change, weeks before Britain takes over the presidency of the G8 group of industrialised nations.

"The most important thing is to try to get a dialogue with America on how we recognise both the scale of the problem on greenhouse gas emissions and a process that enables us to confront and deal with it," Blair told a news conference.

The US, the world's biggest polluter, withdrew in 2001 from the Kyoto Protocol which aims to reduce manmade atmospheric pollutants known as greenhouse gases -- said by scientists to cause global warming. Blair has vowed to make tackling global warming a priority of Britain's G8 presidency, but acknowledges there is little prospect of Washington signing up to the Kyoto Protocol.

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Blair, criticised at home for his close relationship with US President George W. Bush, said Britain disagreed with the United States on its refusal to sign up to the pact. But he said he was looking for new ways of working with Washington on environmental issues."

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http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/28348/story.htm

Yeah, Tony, lots of dialogue forthcoming, I'm sure. They'll talk, you'll listen and absolutely nothing will change, little Poodle-Woodle.