Remember when the Bush administration tried to alter, then stalled, and finally released (under court order) it's climate report four years late? The report concluded - to absolutely no one's surprise - that climate change (a.k.a. "global warming") is occurring.
Today, after the Bush administration pushed the richest nations to ignore the poor and developing nations of the world, the LA Times is reporting that the most advanced nations called on the rapidly developing nations to ... drum roll please ... cut their emissions output because of "climate change" that is occurring.
For their part the richest nations acknowledged that they also had to pursue "a long-term target for emissions reductions" ... and promised to think about cutting their emission levels in half, some time in the future ... if the poorer nations did so first. In effect, with the Bush administration leading the way, the G-8 nations have simply agreed to kick the can down the road to the next generation.
President Bush called the G-8 summit "a success." Those in the reality based world called it what it really was: Yet another example of failed leadership on the part of the United States under President Bush.
- Mark
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