Blair: US set for new climate change treaty

[struggle4progress]

FRASER NELSON
POLITICAL EDITOR

<snip> TONY Blair is negotiating a "Gleneagles Declaration" on climate change that would sign the United States up to a new world plan of action on global warming.

The statement would accept that the US will never sign the Kyoto Treaty, which commits signatories to reducing greenhouse gases. Instead, it would recognise US efforts to fight global warming in its own way, with extensive investment in new fuel technology.

Environmentalists last night dismissed the move as mere "window dressing", while opposition politicians warned the Prime Minister not to use the G8 summit at Gleneagles to "paper over the cracks" on climate change. <snip>

But the Prime Minister is confident his ambitions set out for Gleneagles can still be realised by a new deal which British diplomats are in the final stages of negotiating.

This would broker a truce on the environment by acknowledging that Europe and the US are fighting climate change in their own ways. While Europe prefers to tax greenhouse gasses and trade economic growth for environmental targets, the US would spend a far greater share of its national wealth on new technologies. <snip>

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=631882005


Tony: "He told me to stand up and say hello. <Woof>"

[merwin]

1. In other words, complete bullshit

[struggle4progress]

3. Well, a load of bullshit for you and me -- but maybe another fistful ..

.. of dollars to whore "journalists" on the Bushista payroll to make happy noises, and quite likely a few more billion in taxcuts to the oil industry as "incentive" for some vague studies ...

[pstans]

2. I have been a follower of Peak Oil and Global Warming

I have been a follower of Peak Oil and Global Warming and have been pondering the thought that Peak Oil might help solve Global Warming. If there is no more oil to burn then there will be fewer greenhouse gases being released.

This is would hold true IF we didn't increase the use of coal, which is very dirty. I have a feeling that Bu$h will push the increase use of coal.

If the treaty that Blair has put together doesn't include coal in the new fuel technology then this might be a good thing.

[Spazito]

4. That is so disgusting, imo...

"it would recognize US efforts to fight global warming in its own way"

So, the countries that have signed onto Kyoto have committed to reducing greenhouse gases as well as pouting millions into research for alternate sources of energy, etc, the US is given cover for doing, in reality, the opposite by gutting their own environmental laws, making it easier for Corporations to pollute, etc.

Blair is the worst POS possible!

[Nihil]

6. One way or another

The current US administration is set solid on its goal of destroying
this planet (or, at least, any form of life on it that is higher than
a cockroach).

There are days when I wish it would just happen and get it over with,
ahead of their schedule so those bastards can suffer instead of my
children or grandchildren.

[BillZBubb]

5. Phony Tony! The Poodle strikes again!

What a joke. Will anyone be fooled by this except American sheeple?

[rfkrfk]

7. This is crap. n/t