Blair Demands "Green Revolution" - BBC

[hatrack]

Tony Blair has called for a "technological revolution comparable to the internet" to slow global warming.
Speaking in New Zealand, he said it was important to develop machines which produced fewer emissions, while maintaining economic growth.

Mr Blair promised to push for an international framework to supersede the Kyoto Protocol when it expires. The speech came after the government admitted it was unlikely to meet its target for cutting greenhouse gases. As part of the prime minister's marathon diplomatic mission, he is due to visit Indonesia on Wednesday.

Downing Street said Mr Blair had identified 2006 as the year to get an international consensus on the goal of stabilising the earth's temperature. In his speech in Auckland, the prime minister said the framework to replace Kyoto - which expires at the end of 2012 - must include China, India and the US.

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The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson said Mr Blair's move was "essentially pushing to one side all hopes that America would be chivvied or bullied to signing up to the Kyoto agreement". It was "pushing aside hopes that newly-developed countries like China and India can be brought in too", he said. The prime minister says a less ambitious agreement which "stabilises climate change, and stabilises greenhouse emissions" is a real priority this year, our correspondent said.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4854886.stm

You and George sure "demand" a lot, don't you, Tony? You sure as shit don't produce, but you're good at "demanding".

[phantom power]

1. I demand a pony for my birthday.

[davidwparker]

2. I demand Blair step down. Agree with his call, but he's the Chimp's

discredited Poodle.

[Dead_Parrot]

3. I demand he gets out

before we catch something nasty.

[Nihil]

4. I demand that I wake up ...

... and get away from the nightmare illusion that I've just lived
through the last eight years and seen the beginning of the end.