US wants to negotiate new climate pact

[rodeodance]

Source: ap

US wants to negotiate new climate pact

By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer Mon Dec 3, 1:02 PM ET

BALI, Indonesia - American delegates at the U.N. climate conference insisted Monday they would not be a "roadblock" to a new international agreement aimed at reducing potentially catastrophic greenhouse gases.

But Washington refused to endorse mandatory emissions cuts, which are seen by many governmental delegations at the meeting as crucial for reining in rising temperatures.

Faced with melting polar ice and worsening droughts, delegates from nearly 190 nations opened the two-week conference with pleas for a new climate pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. That deal required the 36 signatories to cut emissions by 5 percent.

A key goal of the conference will be to draw in a skeptical United States, now the sole industrial power that has refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, citing fears it would hurt the U.S. economy because cuts aren't required of rising economies like those in China and India.

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the new PM of DownUnder signed the Kayoto accord today!

[LakeSamish706]

1. Isn't it amazing that of 190 nations at the table, only the US has a problem with...

the Kyoto accord? The US should be damned ashamed of itself for this!

[Spazito]

3. Well, not quite, add our neocon north government to the list....

even though Canada, under the former Liberal government, ratified the Kyoto Accord, the current minority government is very busy working to undermine it while working to earn the position of bush's poodle, recently vacated by blair.

[Lisa]

4. aw, give Steve a break! You know how hard it is ...

The poor man has to suck up to Bush, enough to compensate for both Blair and Howard leaving office.


I confess that I almost threw my copy of the new IPCC report at the TV screen, when I saw Baird on there mouthing off about what a great job he's doing on climate change.

[Spazito]

5. Yep, Baird is a "prize" all right!

Remember, though, the phonies took courses on spin from Frank Luntz, the US word "guru"(creep) so they practice saying a whole bunch of words that mean the opposite and projecting their failures onto others. I have to say they didn't learn as well as the repubs did but the poor critters are trying, lol.

[Deja Q]

2. In a globalized economy, surely China and India should take part too?

:shrug: