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Blair Contemplates Rift With Bush Over Climate Change: Report
London (AFP) Jul 01, 2005 British Prime Minister Tony Blair is considering leaving US President George W. Bush isolated over climate change at next week's summit of Group of Eight (G8) rich nations in Scotland, a newspaper said Friday. It would be the first time that the G8 has faced a "split" communique in which leaders from seven countries agree to a statement without the US leader endorsing it, the Guardian newspaper said, quoting cabinet colleagues. The colleagues described Blair as showing great courage in standing by his position on fighting global warming, despite being advised that it is "a very dangerous thing to do politically" because the outcome was uncertain. Blair, a close ally of Bush, wants to make climate change one of the dominant themes of the summit attended by French President Jacques Chirac, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. With the exception of the United States, all of these countries have ratified the Kyoto Protocol targeting the issue of reducing greenhouse gases said to be responsible for global warming. The Guardian said it obtained a leaked copy of the disputed text on climate change that was to be presented at the G8 at the Gleneagles golf resort in Scotland on July 6-8. It said the United States objects to the following words: "Climate change is a serious and long-term challenge that has the potential to affect every part of the globe. There is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring and that human activity is contributing to this warming." All the G8 nations, it said, accept the following sentence: "Global energy demands are expected to grow by 60 percent over the next 25 years. This has the potential to cause a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions associated with climate change." However, the next sentence is also disputed by the United States, the Guardian said. "But we know that we need to slow, stop and then reverse the growth in greenhouse gases to reduce our exposure to potentially serious economic, environmental and security risks." Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Climate Science News - Modeling, Mitigation Adaptation
The Forgotten Methane Source
Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 11, 2006In the last few years, more and more research has focused on the biosphere; particularly, on how gases which influence the climate are exchanged between the biosphere and atmosphere. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics have now carefully analysed which organic gases are emitted from plants. |
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