U.S. Resists New Targets for Curbing Emissions (NYT)

(Auh, sorry rest of the world, ya see we got these Oil fellers in our government...)

U.S. Resists New Targets for Curbing Emissions

By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: December 8, 2005

MONTREAL, Dec. 7 - The Bush administration, facing fresh criticism on several fronts in climate talks here, maintained its opposition on Wednesday not only to new targets for cutting emissions linked to global warming but also to any informal discussions that might even touch on the subject.

In an unusually direct rebuke, Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada singled out the United States at a news conference for not joining international efforts to require curbs on carbon dioxide and the other greenhouse gases. "To the reticent nations, including the United States, I say this: There is such a thing as a global conscience," Mr. Martin said. "And now is the time to listen to it."

Separately, representatives from the Eskimo native culture of the Arctic, which for 5,000 years has used sea ice as a platform for hunting and transportation, announced that they had filed a petition against the United States on Wednesday in the Washington offices of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a body examining claims of rights abuses in the Americas.

The petition asserts that unabated American emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases are threatening Eskimo traditions and presses the United States to curb the gases.

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(more at link above)

for his total disregard of the environment.

I'd support any legal action against these jerks. :evilgrin:

I'm getting tired of the
I've got a Secret, kind of BS.

...so the WH anti-environmentalist just automatically say are un-necessary (unless they can make money if they cooperate).