Blair falls into line with Bush view on global warming

[Briar]

Blair falls into line with Bush view on global warming
By Geoffrey Lean and Christopher Silvester

Tony Blair has undermined the agreement he masterminded at the Gleneagles Summit Tony Blair has admitted that he is changing his
views on combating global warming to mirror those of President Bush -and oppose negotiating international treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol.

His admission, which has outraged environmentalists on both sides of
the Atlantic, flies in the face of his promises made in the past two
years and undermines the agreement he masterminded at this summer's
Gleneagles Summit. And it endangers talks that opened in Ottawa this
weekend on a new treaty to combat climate change.

The U-turn will inevitably bring accusations that he has, once again, sold out to Mr Bush, just at the time that the US President is coming under unprecedented pressure to change his policy in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Last week the UK Government's chief scientific advisor, Sir David King, said that global warming might have increased their severity.

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Sharing a platform with the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice,
in New York this month, Mr Blair confessed: "Probably I'm changing my thinking about this", adding that he hoped the world's nations would "not negotiate international treaties".

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/article314991.ece

[AndyTiedye]

1. Blair is Not Permitted to Have Any Thoughts of His Own Anymore

[jfern]

2. OK, now Blair is a pro-global warming war criminal

Even the Conservative party is better than the Labour party now.

[I_Make_Mistakes]

3. Okay, let's see what Evil Hurricane that will summon. Yes, I do

believe Global Warming is involved. Those who deny truth (Bush and Blair) will be the ones who truth denies.

I am not a scientist, but think about the ever expanding population and try to deny that we are generating more heat than we should. Even, from a novice point of view (logic is logic), it is impossible to believe that we aren't generating more heat.

Please remind me what world are we living in?

[cassiepriam]

4. Why is Blair in Bush's pocket?? nt

[TomClash]

5. My British in-laws

warned me about Blair almost a decade ago. They were right.

[punpirate]

6. My first thought is that I wonder how...

... Blair feels with Bush's hand up his ass.

But, this has more than being Bush's ventriloquist's dummy. Blair is now realizing that much of Kyoto is unobtainable for Britain, if only for the same lame excuse being used in the US--it would somehow harm the status quo, their "way of life."

See George Monbiot's recent column:

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0920-23.htm

It seems from the above that Blair's government has been doing its best, all along, to prevent the implementation of rules designed to reduce energy use.

[drduffy]

7. The Carlyle Group has made their purchase

it would seem. I certainly hope -- that when all the shit hits the fan with peak oil and the collapse of Amerika the Empire -- somebody has list of the corporatists and where they are located .. for obvious reasons. There is some atonement due.

[hatrack]

8. What a slimy, glib little whore. What lying sack of shit. What a tool.

May his home be first to be encased in ice when the Gulf Stream shuts down. Asshole. Corporate suit asshole.

[Lindacooks]

9. GOD, Bliar is such a fucking spineless weenie.

It's nice to see his approval ratings in the toilet along with the chimp's.