Climate control? What's that?

[sobrique]

Link filched from deathboy
New US move to spoil climate accord

Extraordinary efforts by the White House to scupper Britain's attempts to tackle global warming have been revealed in leaked US government documents obtained by The Observer.

These papers - part of the Bush administration's submission to the G8 action plan for Gleneagles next month - show how the United States, over the past two months, has been secretly undermining Tony Blair's proposals to tackle climate change.

The documents obtained by The Observer represent an attempt by the Bush administration to undermine completely the science of climate change and show that the US position has hardened during the G8 negotiations. They also reveal that the White House has withdrawn from a crucial United Nations commitment to stabilise greenhouse gas emissions.

The documents show that Washington officials:

· Removed all reference to the fact that climate change is a 'serious threat to human health and to ecosystems';

· Deleted any suggestion that global warming has already started;

· Expunged any suggestion that human activity was to blame for climate change.

Among the sentences removed was the following: 'Unless urgent action is taken, there will be a growing risk of adverse effects on economic development, human health and the natural environment, and of irreversible long-term changes to our climate and oceans.'

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This disturbs me. The US may be the economic powerhouse of the world, but surely there's some prices that are just too high?

Comments

[malal.livejournal.com]

That quote scares the crap out of me. It doesn't suprise me though...

[mrph.livejournal.com]

There are some... less well documented... ones that bluntly say "who cares, the rapture is coming" and "God put the world here for us to use, so we're using it", but that one's on the record and unarguable.

Scares the hell out of me. Yup.