and total disregard for human beings in order to make money for the oil industry.....
Well how else do you interpret this headline? :shrug:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/27/rice.climate.conference/Nations must fight climate change like terrorism, Rice saysWASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday told delegates to a global climate change conference that countries around the world must work together to combat climate change, much as they cooperate against terror and the spread of disease.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice addresses the Global Change Conference on Thursday.
"No one nation, no matter how much power or political will it possesses, can succeed alone," she said. "We all need partners, and we all need to work in concert."
Rice said the United States takes climate change seriously, "for we are both a major economy and a major emitter."
"Climate change is a global problem, and we are contributing to it. Therefore, we are prepared to expand our leadership to address the challenge," she said.
Other nations have been critical of the Bush administration's policy on climate change after the United States withdrew from the 1997 U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, known as the Kyoto Protocol. More than 150 countries signed the Kyoto agreement, which mandates limits on emissions.
At a Group of Eight conference in June, President Bush pushed for a new framework on global gas emissions to counter the effects of global warming.
Bush said he believes every nation should set its own goals. The president expressed concern that setting strict targets would damage the U.S. economy. Instead, he said, industries should enact voluntary measures.
In her address Thursday to the Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change, Rice said an integrated response, including "environmental stewardship, economic growth, energy supply and security and development and the development and deployment of new clean energy technology" is the key to moving forward on the issue.
She listed three points that she hopes delegates will focus on during the conference:
An agreement on a long-term goal for greenhouse gas reduction.
The establishment of midterm national targets and programs tailored to each country's economic and energy needs to reach the broader goal.
The encouragement of work with private industry to develop new energy technology that doesn't risk but accelerates economic growth.