A third way on global warming
Tom Paine
by Michael Shellenberger & Ted Nordhaus
12/01/05
Last January, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that one of his top priorities as chairman of the Group of Eight industrialized countries would be to rally the G8 to action on global warming. Unspoken in that announcement, but obvious to all, was Blair's intention to target President Bush, who in 2001 withdrew the United States from the Kyoto protocol regulating greenhouse gas emissions. As world leaders convened last July, there was much anticipation over what kind of agreement the G8 would reach. By the end of the summit, it was clear that Blair's hopes had been dashed. The White House succeeded in so watering down the G8's communique on global warming that it ended up being weaker than the statement President Bush's father had signed 13 years before...
http://tinyurl.com/aosg7
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Michael Shellenberger & Ted Nordhaus
12/01/05
Last January, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that one of his top priorities as chairman of the Group of Eight industrialized countries would be to rally the G8 to action on global warming. Unspoken in that announcement, but obvious to all, was Blair's intention to target President Bush, who in 2001 withdrew the United States from the Kyoto protocol regulating greenhouse gas emissions. As world leaders convened last July, there was much anticipation over what kind of agreement the G8 would reach. By the end of the summit, it was clear that Blair's hopes had been dashed. The White House succeeded in so watering down the G8's communique on global warming that it ended up being weaker than the statement President Bush's father had signed 13 years before...
http://tinyurl.com/aosg7
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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