Blair - World Has 7 Years To Make Vital Climate Choices - Reuters

[hatrack]

Like not imposing any sort of tax on jet fuel - you mean, those kinds of decision, Phony?

LONDON (Reuters) - The world has seven years to take vital decisions and implement measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions or it could be too late, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday.

Blair said the battle against global warming would only be won if the United States, India and China were part of a framework that included targets and that succeeded the 1992 Kyoto Protocol climate pact.

"If we don't get the right agreement internationally for the period after which the Kyoto protocol will expire -- that's in 2012 -- if we don't do that then I think we are in serious trouble," he told a parliamentary committee. Asked if the world had seven years to implement measures on climate change before the problem reached "tipping point", Blair answered: "Yes".

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Blair said there were the "beginnings" of an international consensus and that Bush's comment in his State of the Union speech last week that America was "addicted to oil" was a sign of a change of mood but he urged Bush to move further. "I think there are real signs of change," he said. "I think if you could find a way of ensuring the right incentives were given without America feeling there was some desire to inhibit its economic growth, then I think we can find a way through."

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Well golly, isn't that just wonderfully super-special? "The beginnings of an international consensus" - WONDERFUL!

:puke:

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-02-07T124801Z_01_L07697839_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENVIRONMENT-BRITAIN-BLAIR.xml

[jwirr]

1. Kiss up some more Tony. You have nothing to say

that will impress any of us. You bowed down to * and we no longer have a democracy where we can make decisions to help our world. You are part of the problem not the solution.

[phantom power]

2. I like his authoritative certainty about whether we HAVE seven years.

"Yes." Because we'll always have more years.

Wake up! Time to die.