Split Between Climate Science, Political Changes Wider Than Ever - Reuters

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LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The gap between what countries are doing to address climate change and what scientists say they should be doing is widening, Britain's Environment Minister David Miliband, said on Friday. "I think there's a widening gap between where we are now and where the scientists say we ought to be," he told reporters.

The growing gap was not due to a slowing of political action but to increasingly dire warnings delivered by science, he said. "The science has been consolidated in the past year in dramatic and stark terms," he said, without elaborating.

The European Union has a target to avoid a more than 2 degrees Celsius average global temperature rise over levels before the industrial revolution. These temperatures can be avoided if concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are kept below about 450 parts per million, scientists say. CO2 was rising at 2.5 parts per million per year, meaning greenhouse gases could be at 450 ppm in 10 years, Miliband said.

"That (2 degrees) is a challenging thing to achieve. That's a stark challenge." Miliband was previewing a meeting next week in Mexico, when energy and environment ministers in the world's top 20 greenhouse gas emitters will explore in an informal setting how to tackle climate change. "It's a chance for honest, open, safe dialogue... between the 20 biggest emitting countries."

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No, David, the meeting in Mexico is just one more chance for Bush's tools to fuck and fuck and FUCK the world, and hurl their own feces at the other primates present, and of course to toss buckets of sand into the gears of whatever's left of the post-Kyoto process. But I'm sure there'll be any amount of sincerity in the speeches and press releases.

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