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[22 Dec 2004|02:45am] |
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Let me guess... Bush II flunked science and so now it just doesn't exist?????
BUSH DELEGATION BLOCKS PROGRESS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
GLOBAL WARMING
While there is no longer any serious debate in the scientific
and business communities about whether global warming is real,
the Bush Administration last week executed perhaps its most
astonishing act of denial at the conclusion of a two-week
international conference in Buenos Aires.
The UN conference, attended by some 6,200 government officials,
NGO observers and journalists, aimed to begin the implementation
process for the 132 nations that have ratified the Kyoto
Protocol, and to begin planning further ways to mitigate the
spread of greenhouse gases after Kyoto expires in 2012.
But the United States--the world's largest emitter of greenhouse
gases--all but told the conferees to take a walk. Besides
blocking all efforts to conduct substantive discussions, the
U.S. allied itself with none other than Saudi Arabia in
obstructing efforts to create a system of payments to help poor,
low-lying island nations cope with the cost of mitigating damage
related to global warming, such as rising sea levels, land
erosion and increased storm damage.
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