Human rights body reconsiders Inuit climate change petition (against U.S.)

[Newsjock]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/02/06/climate-hearing.html

In a surprising about-face, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has decided it will hold a hearing to determine whether climate change is a human rights violation.

The decision comes just two months after the organization rejected a petition filed by Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sheila Watt-Cloutier and 65 other Inuit in 2005.

The petition states the U.S. is violating the human rights of Inuit by refusing to sign any international treaties to cut its greenhouse gas emissions.

... The hearing will be held in Washington, D.C., on March 1.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Hell, that's just more liberal propaganda." - Commander AWOL

"Anyone with sense knows that admitting to the reality of global warming would just louse up the Massive Profits that me and my corrupt republicon cronies are raking in. So all you Eskis can just shut up and sit down."

- Commander AWOL

[CoffeeCat]

2. It's too bad...

...that a few thug necons are running the entire show--in the
name of ALL United States citizens.

I worry that we will ALL suffer--on the world's stage--as a result
of the selfish, sleazy, greedy policies of this minority gaggle of
neocons.

[Xithras]

3. I would agree with this if...

...if someone could show me a single treaty weve refused to sign that would have actually reduced global emissions. There haven't been any.

[MasonJar]

4. Wonder how much the reversal has to do with the Dems being in

charge and the election of Watt-Cloutier?