Arctic Council Urges Action on Warming -WP

[Rose Siding]

Eight nations with Arctic territory agreed yesterday to fight glacial melting and other effects of climate change in the region, though they declined to endorse any new steps to counter global warming out of deference to the Bush administration.

The Arctic Council -- which includes the United States, Russia, Canada and several Nordic countries -- issued a seven-page policy report asking countries to adopt "effective measures" to combat climate change -- without elaborating on what that would entail.
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In that document, more than 300 scientists concluded after four years of study that melting sea ice, abrupt weather changes and rising temperatures in northern latitudes have far outpaced climate change in other regions over the past few decades. Several nations pushed for a more aggressive policy statement backing limits on carbon dioxide emissions, said participants in the talks who asked not to be identified for fear of angering the United States, but Bush administration officials resisted that effort.

One negotiator said the final product, "while not good, could have been much worse," adding that the administration recognizes "there's a global concern about climate change."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11104-2004Nov24.html

[slor]

1. "out of deference to the Bush administration."...

That is an amazing line. When the hell has he ever shown deference for anyone else?

[mom cat]

2. He doesn't have to show deference..he is God's own chosen

emperor..