Bush kills off hopes for G8 climate change plan

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Bush kills off hopes for G8 climate plan US recognises global warming danger but wants to lead response outside UN
The Guardian

George Bush yesterday threw international efforts to control climate change into confusion with a proposal to create a "new global framework" to curb greenhouse gas emissions as an alternative to a planned UN process.

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However, Bernd Pfaffenbach, the chief German negotiator or "sherpa" on climate change was blunter. He told the Suddeutschen Zeitung newspaper that excluding the UN or weakening its role was a "red line" that Ms Merkel "will never cross".

"The leading role of the UN on climate change is non-negotiable," he added. Another German official described the proposal as a "poison pill" aimed at undermining G8 and UN efforts to tackle global warming. "With one stroke you say goodbye to the UN," the official said. "This is a fundamentally different approach, and I'd be very surprised if the other G8 countries abandon the UN course."

Environmentalists were also furious. Daniel Mittler, an analyst at Greenpeace International, said: "It's not even too little too late, but a dangerous diversionary tactic. He doesn't need to start a new process. There already is one. This is meant to slow down the UN process."

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2093055,00.html

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1. Actually, the post of your title would be accurate if it reads: "Bush kills..."

[BrklynLiberal]

2. The world needs to just go on without the US....pull the rug out from under BushCo and perhaps

the world will be much better off...
The Emperor is NAKED!!! The world has stop telling him how handsome he looks in his new clothes!!!

[babylonsister]

3. He is such an embarrassing ASS! This is 'his' initiative-I think he just

has to act petulant and doesn't give a damn if he further pisses the world off.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aa8pTOS0YKTM&refer=home

Bush Proposes Initiative for Cutting Greenhouse Gases (Update5)

By Brendan Murray and Tina Seeley

May 31 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush, in a counter-offer to European leaders on climate change, proposed convening a new round of talks with the world's biggest economies to set targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

more... I can't even copy it he's such a fucktard...

[Homer12]

4. Bush justs want to subvert it to his will

It's all about power.

[babylonsister]

5. Too bad he doesn't realize how low and uncompromising it makes

him look.

[IndianaGreen]

6. Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "Impeachment is off the table."

Sorry, but as long as we allow Bush and Cheney to continue to do harm by keeping impeachment off the table, they will continue to do harm.