Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Climate change concerns grow

From BBC News

There will be sceptics, predominantly in the US, who will accuse the IPCC of trying to scare policy-makers into action with their report.But the broad international expert consensus embodied in the IPCC will make it harder for the US administration to say that climate change is a problem for the future which can be solved by technological advances.In a meeting with climate campaigners, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said the world needed to engage the Americans, Chinese and Indians in agreement over a figure for CO2 stabilisation.But this is unlikely to happen while US President George W Bush is in office; his representative told the December climate conference in Montreal that the US would not agree any targets for reducing CO2. read full story at:

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