G8 Climate Pledges "All But Off The Agenda" - It's All About The OIl

LONDON - World leaders must not allow concern for energy security to distract them from taking promised action on global warming, top world scientists said on Wednesday.

Climate change solutions agreed at the G8 summit in Scotland a year ago risked being pushed off the agenda at next month's G8 summit in Russia by worries about security of energy supply, they said. {"One year on from the UK Gleneagles Summit, where the G8 committed to taking action on climate change, this crucial issue must not be allowed to fall by the wayside," said Martin Rees, president of the UK's Royal Society. Rees is a signatory to the statement from the science academies of the G8 and China, Brazil, India and South Africa. "The G8 must demonstrate that this was a serious pledge by integrating climate concerns with their discussions regarding security of supply," he said.

Britain pushed global warming to the top of the agenda during its presidency of the G8 in 2005, eliciting promises of action from some of the world's major polluters. But energy supply worries have increased as Russia briefly turned off gas supplies in December in a dispute with Ukraine, Iraq's insurgency has escalated as has a nuclear row with Iran, factors that boosted oil prices to record levels.

Environmentalists say the topic has dominated discussions in the lead up to the G8 summit in St Petersberg from July 15-17, pushing a follow-up to the resounding Gleneagles climate change declarations all but off the agenda.

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http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36823/story.htm

earth is giving us all helpful hints about what insecurity really means.

The New Orleans refugees
Demolished oil rigs
Desertification in Portugal
Disappearing island nations
Dying forests
Drowning polar bears

And the leaders talked and talked and talked...

How can a discussion about energy security NOT include a discussion about environmental concerns, when those concerns are partially (most significantly, even?) tied to energy use?