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lindisfarne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 09:02 PM
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'Historic consensus' at G8 on climate change
Edited on Thu Jul-09-09 09:07 PM by lindisfarne
Source: Raw Story

US President Barack Obama hailed Thursday what he said was an "historic consensus" on battling climate change between the leaders of the world's 17 leading economic powers.

"We also agree that developed countries, like my own, have a historic responsibility to take the lead. We have the much larger carbon footprint per capita," Obama said at an expanded G8 summit in Italy.

"And I know that in the past the United States has sometimes fallen short of meeting our responsibilities, so let me be clear, those days are over."

During the summit, the G8 industrialised nations and the nine most important emerging powers agreed that developed countries as a whole should cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent but the declaration was promptly undermined when Russia said such a target was unattainable and unacceptable.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/afp/_Historic_consensus_at_G8_on_climat_07092009.html



We'll see what this really means, but still, much better than what we would have heard just a year ago from the US president in acknowledging the US contribution to the problem.
See also
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-g8-climate10-2009jul10,0,1151004.story
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pleah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 09:12 PM
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1. K&R As you say, "We'll see". n/t
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-10-09 08:31 AM
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2. Amazing what can happen with a REAL president!
Bush is a pompous asshole - and the whole world knows it. It feels so good to have someone the world respects in the White House now.

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denem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-10-09 08:38 AM
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3. Historic SCAM. They are setting a +2C target. See below
Rising ocean temperatures near worst-case predictions
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3962598&mesg_id=3962598

Cap and trade is like putting on sunhats aboard the Hindenburg,
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