Climategate:
New Leaked Memos as US Moves to Spoil Climate Accord
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/061905X.shtml New US Move to Spoil Climate Accord
By Mark Townsend
The Observer UK
Sunday 19 June 2005
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 They also reveal that the White House has withdrawn from a crucial United Nations commitment to stabilise greenhouse gas emissions.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.
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/aJj5ceX2DWtJkt/Governments-Global-Warming-Expert-Returns-to-Oil-Industry.xhtmlGovernment's Global Warming Expert Returns to Oil Industry
By H. Josef Hebert
AP
06/16/05 8:06 AM PT
A former White House official and one-time oil industry lobbyist whose editing of government reports on climate change prompted criticism from environmentalists will join Exxon Mobil, the oil company said Tuesday.
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"Thanks to George Bush, we were not able to move forward."
Jennifer Morgan
WWF
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0708-01.htm Published on Friday, July 8, 2005 by Inter Press Service
G-8 Summit: U.S. Trips Up Climate Agreement
by Sanjay Suri
GLENEAGLES, Scotland - The G8 countries remained divided over how to tackle global climate change at the end of their three-day summit here.
Those of us who have ratified the Kyoto Protocol welcome its entry into force and will work to make it a success,” the Group of Eight leaders said in their communiqué Friday. There were no marks for guessing that the United States was the odd one out.
But the agreement among the rest was also uncertain beyond the end of the first implementation period of the Kyoto Protocol 2008-2012. British Prime Minister Tony Blair has backed U.S. President George Bush on the need to look beyond Kyoto post-2012.
That can mean that at least the major developing countries could be required to make mandatory emissions cuts of the kind that the Kyoto Protocol requires of the industrialized countries that have ratified the agreement. By 2012 they are to curb climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 5.2 percent from 1990 levels.
The communiqué -- much discussed and debated in the weeks and even final days leading up to the July 6-8 summit of the leaders of the eight most powerful industrialized nations (United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and host Britain) -- was strong on agreements on principles, but fell far short of specific commitments.
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