Bush Announces Plans For Climate Summit
President Bush invited representatives of major industrialized and developing countries to a climate change summit in September to discuss how to set a long-term strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
"In recent years, science has deepened our understanding of climate change and opened new possibilities for confronting it," Mr. Bush said in his invitation letter Friday.
Under international pressure to take tough action against global warming, Mr. Bush last May had called for a meeting of nations to talk about how to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and promote energy efficiency without hampering economic growth.
He made the initial announcement at the Group of Eight summit in Germany, and now is sending out invitations for a meeting Sept. 27-28 that will be hosted by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Mr. Bush wants to bring India, China and other fast-growing countries to the negotiating table so they are part of the solution, not the problem.
The summit will address "life after" the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. The Kyoto agreement, adopted in 1997, aims to limit the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted from power plants and factories in industrialized countries. The United States is not a party to the agreement and developing countries like China and India are exempt from its obligations.
Mr. Bush, who plans to address the conference, sent invitations to the European Union, the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Canada, India, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa and the United Nations.
In his invitation, Mr. Bush said representatives would talk about ways the major world economies would — by the end of 2008 — agree upon a post-2012 framework that could include a long-term global goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. He said they also would talk about working with the private sector to promote clean energy technologies.
© 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. "In recent years, science has deepened our understanding of climate change and opened new possibilities for confronting it," Mr. Bush said in his invitation letter Friday.
Under international pressure to take tough action against global warming, Mr. Bush last May had called for a meeting of nations to talk about how to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and promote energy efficiency without hampering economic growth.
He made the initial announcement at the Group of Eight summit in Germany, and now is sending out invitations for a meeting Sept. 27-28 that will be hosted by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Mr. Bush wants to bring India, China and other fast-growing countries to the negotiating table so they are part of the solution, not the problem.
The summit will address "life after" the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. The Kyoto agreement, adopted in 1997, aims to limit the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted from power plants and factories in industrialized countries. The United States is not a party to the agreement and developing countries like China and India are exempt from its obligations.
Mr. Bush, who plans to address the conference, sent invitations to the European Union, the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Canada, India, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa and the United Nations.
In his invitation, Mr. Bush said representatives would talk about ways the major world economies would — by the end of 2008 — agree upon a post-2012 framework that could include a long-term global goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. He said they also would talk about working with the private sector to promote clean energy technologies.
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My bet is with you.
"So you don't think God knows the outcome of the earth heh?"
I didn't say that God didn't know the outcome of the earth, I just don't agree with you that it will be God that determines the end.
wanna bet?
Posted by erasmus6 at 02:04 PM : Aug 04, 2007
Already did. I bet my life.
The chimp could care less about the climate. The only reason he would be interested in the climate is to make his rich buddies richer.
If I remember correctly, some of the chimps appointees blocked important information, about the climate, from becoming public.
Again the chimp talks out of both sides of his a*s.
wanna bet?
There will be no long term, idiot.
Any "climate summit hosted by Bush will be a waste of time and resources, as we all know the Bush position, "Lets use up all the oil first, then when I can't steal some other country's oil, then we'll start thinking of alternatives".
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. IMPEACH THE SUCKER.
If you are reading abroad, call/write to your government urging them to boycott this "meeting/lecture" and attend the UN meeting. If they still go, then urge them to maintain the need for renewable energy and efficiency and to not be swayed by money or other "promises" from this president- no money / technology will do any good if the climate is changed irreparably.
If that fails, boycott American products: this president is concerned about "economic harm" if we reduce our fossil fuel consumption- in reality, all of those renewable energy industries will actually create jobs and keep money in America.
What is the economic damage when the climate starts to change more dramatically? Ask the insurance companies.
The climate will not wait for Bush or anyone to make the needed changes- by then, it will be far too late.
Posted by FARTKNOCKER2 at 04:04 PM : Aug 03, 2007
Oh smelly one, appears you are not keeping up with the news. See below.
Hurricane frequency, climate change linked
BOULDER, Colo., July 30 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say about twice as many Atlantic hurricanes now form each year than did a century ago in a change possibly linked with global warming.
The new statistical analysis of hurricanes and tropical storms in the north Atlantic was conducted by Greg Holland at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and Peter Webster of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Their study concludes warmer sea surface temperatures and altered wind patterns associated with climate change are fueling much of the increase.
The study appears in the online issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.