Bushists "are trying to lay landmines under a post-Kyoto agreement after they leave office."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6651295.stm

US seeks G8 climate text changes
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website


The US is trying to block sections of a draft agreement on climate change prepared for next month's G8 summit.

Washington objects to the draft's targets to keep the global temperature rise below 2C this century and halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

The draft, prepared by the German G8 Presidency, says action is imperative.

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Bush's administration has repeatedly pushed voluntary agreements as an alternative. The US is a key player in the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, a six-nation pact which promises greenhouse gas mitigation without targets.

US officials are also questioning the draft's call for the establishment of a global carbon market. Many observers believe that such a market can only be effective if there are binding caps on emissions.

"I think the real objective (of the US negotiators) is not just to keep the lid on and have nothing happen while President Bush is in office, but they are trying to lay landmines under a post-Kyoto agreement after they leave office," commented Philip Clapp, president of the Washington-based National Environmental Trust, who has seen the US's proposed amendments.

contemplate. We are going to have to "step" so carefully through the labyrinth of snares they leave, we may be decades cleaning up their messes; if we even have those options.

look puny in comparison, don't it? a charge that was disproven, btw.

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And a global climate catastrophe and the ensuing political unrest that would accompany it, are just the sorts of things he thinks are necessary to fulfill Biblical prophesy.

They seem to have collectively lost their minds. This is a huge, and increasingly manifest, crisis. It is hard to exagerate just how serious the effects of catastrophic climate change will be if we do not change course. And yet the ruling class of the dominant nation on the planet have chosen the course of doing nothing, worse they have chosen the course of obstruction to those who would do anything. Why? They may generally be idiots, but they certainly employ lots of bright people to advise them. What benefit do they see it letting this catastrophe happen? Why have they chosen to act this way? I simply do not get it.

And they certainly don't grasp how the many adverse impacts of global warming can, and will, reach all the way to Paraguay, too. NO ONE will be immune. They've been groomed to believe they're all above the law somehow. They'll eventually find out, the hard way, that this is one "law" to which they're on their knees, just like all the rest of us. They're not bigger than this.

What in hell does it take to get them out of office before they can do any more damage?