UK Urges US Climate Cooperation (Pause NOW For Hysterical Laughter) [View All]

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Sheesh, sorry, where was I . . . Oh, yeah!

"Foreign Secretary Jack Straw reiterated that Britain reckoned that global climate change, largely blamed on emissions from burning oil, gas and coal, was "the most important long-term issue which we face as a global community". I know that Europe and the U.S. have not taken identical approaches to this challenge," he said in a speech at Howard University in Washington on Thursday night.

"But, as a friend of the United States, I hope you will allow me to argue that urgent international action is needed. It is critically important that we address the issue of climate change now, and together," he said.

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Straw noted that the 10 hottest years on record were all since 1990. A barrier in the Thames River near London had to be raised six or seven times a year, double the rate in the 1980s, to avert flooding that could cause $60 billion (34 billion pounds) in damage. In the United States, he said that increases in droughts, fires and storms were already showing the effects of climate change.

Bush has stressed energy efficiency (sic) rather than Kyoto's emissions curbs."

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http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/25116/story.htm