UK to push Bush on global warming

Thu 4 November, 2004 14:45

BERLIN (Reuters) - The government hopes it can exert influence on reelected President George W. Bush and push the United States to do more to combat climate change, the government's chief scientist says.

Prime Minister Tony Blair has made tackling global warming and reducing carbon emissions one of two priorities for Britain's year-long presidency of the Group of Eight (G8) richest nations starting in January.

The United States refused to sign up to the Kyoto treaty on climate change in 2001 and it was held in limbo until Russia's parliament ratified the treaty last month.

Speaking on the sidelines of a British-German conference on climate change in Berlin, the government's chief scientific adviser David King, said London was looking to take advantage of its close relationship with Washington as the Bush administration prepared for its second four-year term. 'What I can say is that we are looking for advantages in the present situation,' King told Reuters.

'We'll be in there very quickly discussing these issues with them prior to our G8 presidency,' he added. 'I think we can feel quite optimistic about that.'

The Kyoto treaty aims to cut CO2 emissions by 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. The United States has four percent of the world's population but produces a quarter of global emissions.

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It's not George Bush's decision! The Senate decided against the phony Kyoto Protocol.

Got it yet, you foreign dimwit?

WDA

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Are you saying that you are a native born dimwit? And there I was thinking you had hatched from an egg, laid in a dungheap by a rooster...

I certainly hope not! Is 'IT' contagious?

you foreign

Yep, the majority of me is a foreigner, My paternal ancestor arrived in the new world in 1682. Most of the rest of my family are new to America, too. Most of their ancestors arrived in the early 1700s. However, I do have a great great grandmother on my late mother's side who was a Chipawah.

dimwit?

My IQ was measured at about 140 just 6 months ago.

Wow! How did it assume room temperature readings in only 6 months?