US accepts Earth is warming

July 2nd, 2005 at 20:10 Björn Hallberg

Now that is wild and crazy. From the G8 summit.

In a fact sheet issued yesterday, the Bush administration stated: “We know the surface of the Earth is warmer and that an increase in greenhouse gases caused by humans is contributing to the problem.”

But Catherine Pearce of Friends of the Earth International said: “They obviously feel threatened, but it’s low on substance; there is nothing in there about mandatory cuts to emissions.”

Guy Thompson, director of the Green Alliance, warned: “All the signs are that they are completely intransigent.”

Both groups argue that it would be better to reach a deal without the US than to include it by producing a watered down text.

No substantial changes on the horizon. But just getting them to admit, albeit in a very small way, that science, any science in fact, is real … well, that is just amazing.

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