Tony "the Poodle" Bliar goes to Washington, and comes back with a Global Warming "plan for action" that's
"worse than hot air"
The "plan for action" to tackle climate change for the G8 summit next month has been drastically watered down following Tony Blair's visit to Washington, according to a leaked draft.
The new text has been stripped of commitments to fund programmes that appeared in a previous leak of the communiqué, which was dated 3 May. In the new document, of 14 June, some key phrases appear only in square brackets, indicating that their inclusion is in dispute, while other important sentences have been taken out altogether.
In this week's version, even the phrase "our world is warming" has been placed in square brackets...
I guess Bush's Exxon lobbyist was the editor for this document too. More after the jump.
WTF is Tony Baloney thinking?
"Catherine Pearce, the international climate campaigner at Friends of the Earth, said: "The new text is really attacking the whole science on climate change. The previous text was weak but at least it recognised the science. The US administration has hacked the text to pieces...
...Every reference to the urgency of action or the need for real cuts in emissions has been deleted or challenged. Nothing in this text recognises the scale or urgency of the crisis of climate change. If they can't do better than this, the outcome of G8 summit will be worse than hot air: it will be a backward step in international climate change policy, simply adding to climate injustice."
I vaguely remember a lot of arguments about how it would be acceptable to attack threatening regimes in self-defense. Can we use those arguments, or are they just for the neocons...?
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