It Worked Once...
Fixing the facts, that is. Why not try it again?
The G8 meeting is coming up next week, and the primary agenda item has to do with Global Warming. This administration has taken the position that global warming does not exist, does not exist, and the science behind it is spurious.
Instead of presenting data on this position, the administration has apparently chosen a different route. The Guardian details that route:
The size of the task facing the negotiators became apparent yesterday when the Guardian was leaked the disputed text on climate change which is to go before the G8 leaders next week in Gleneagles. So far apart are the US and the rest of the G8 that the senior civil servants from all eight countries are meeting today and tomorrow to try to avoid a showdown.
The text, described as "the base for Friday, Saturday meeting", shows that the US refuses to accept either the science surrounding climate change or that the burning of fossil fuels is contributing to it.
The US is objecting to these words: "Climate change is a serious and long-term challenge that has the potential to affect every part of the globe. There is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring and that human activity is contributing to this warming." [emphasis added]
Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and soon to be President of the European Union, finds himself in rather a ticklish situation. The G8 will be meeting in Scotland, and he is the primary force behind that meeting. Seven of the eight nations attending that meeting agree with the language. At the same time, Mr. Blair aligned himself (in what his own citizens consider a disasterous move) with President Bush on Iraq and has worked closely with the president on many issues.
Tony Blair is contemplating an unprecedented rift with the US over climate change at the G8 summit next week, which will lead to a final communique agreed by seven countries with President George Bush left out on a limb. ...
It became clear yesterday that France and Germany favour a split rather than a communique that would be so weak their leaders would be mocked when they returned home. This leaves Mr Blair with a choice of siding with Europe as he assumes the EU presidency or with an increasingly isolated US president.
I hope Mr. Blair has the good sense and the integrity to shed the 'Bush's poodle' image in favor of solid science and international accord on an issue which affects all of us on this planet.
The G8 meeting is coming up next week, and the primary agenda item has to do with Global Warming. This administration has taken the position that global warming does not exist, does not exist, and the science behind it is spurious.
Instead of presenting data on this position, the administration has apparently chosen a different route. The Guardian details that route:
The size of the task facing the negotiators became apparent yesterday when the Guardian was leaked the disputed text on climate change which is to go before the G8 leaders next week in Gleneagles. So far apart are the US and the rest of the G8 that the senior civil servants from all eight countries are meeting today and tomorrow to try to avoid a showdown.
The text, described as "the base for Friday, Saturday meeting", shows that the US refuses to accept either the science surrounding climate change or that the burning of fossil fuels is contributing to it.
The US is objecting to these words: "Climate change is a serious and long-term challenge that has the potential to affect every part of the globe. There is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring and that human activity is contributing to this warming." [emphasis added]
Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and soon to be President of the European Union, finds himself in rather a ticklish situation. The G8 will be meeting in Scotland, and he is the primary force behind that meeting. Seven of the eight nations attending that meeting agree with the language. At the same time, Mr. Blair aligned himself (in what his own citizens consider a disasterous move) with President Bush on Iraq and has worked closely with the president on many issues.
Tony Blair is contemplating an unprecedented rift with the US over climate change at the G8 summit next week, which will lead to a final communique agreed by seven countries with President George Bush left out on a limb. ...
It became clear yesterday that France and Germany favour a split rather than a communique that would be so weak their leaders would be mocked when they returned home. This leaves Mr Blair with a choice of siding with Europe as he assumes the EU presidency or with an increasingly isolated US president.
I hope Mr. Blair has the good sense and the integrity to shed the 'Bush's poodle' image in favor of solid science and international accord on an issue which affects all of us on this planet.
posted by Diane at 6:41 AM
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