Word: kyoto
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...Monday's White House event meant to undo the damage on "Kyoto." Usually the Japanese town is used to refer to the agreement on limiting global warming gasses that was negotiated there, but in the White House it has come to mean the second round of environmental problems. Round two started when Bush reversed his position on limiting CO2 emissions which many scientists believe contribute to global warming. When he simply reiterated his opposition to the Kyoto protocol that locked in the notion that he didn't care about the issue at all. "Kyoto" has also come to symbolize...
...Mondays speech didn't change many minds either, especially not in Europe. Bush essentially re-packaged his previous position on climate change: he's against the Kyoto protocol and developing nations must be called to account for their share of the global problem. Bush did go further in recognizing the problem. That doesn't do much for the Europeans or others concerned about how the United States will address the issue...
...that would hurt the economy. European whining, protest in the streets, and complaints from bureaucrats have only so much effect on the powerful voices in the White House. The real view is that Europeans are being unrealistic and trying to blame the United States for backing out of the Kyoto agreement when they had their own problems with it. Solving global climate change, says the White House, cannot be done in a day. Issues must be weighed and studied. True, but that means until the White House offers real policy prescriptions, Bush will probably have to take a few more...
...Republican insiders to bone up on policy issues when dealing with wayward senators will face an even tougher task. Having come into power believing this whole global warming thing was a left-wing conspiracy hatched while his family was out of power, Bush in April flatly rejected the Kyoto treaty that the international community had spent the best part of a decade negotiating. Last week, a scientific panel he'd commissioned gave the president some unwelcome findings: Global warming is, indeed, caused by human activity, and that needs to be urgently addressed. But Bush's economic and ideological thinking does...
...Europeans say: The bottom line is that the U.S. is the world's largest polluter and one of the most inefficient energy consumers among the industrialized nations. Whatever compromises are reached on implementing Kyoto must include mandatory cuts in U.S. carbon gas outputs. Short-term economic cost will be rewarded with long-term benefit...