Bush at climate conference - maybe yes, maybe no!

The Bush administration has come up with a good-news, bad-news sort of thing at the climate conference being held in the U. S.

Georgie boy has finally admitted that there just might be something to this "global warming" thing and that action needs to be taken.

But, a plan for countries to set their own targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions has drawn considerable criticism.

Some delegates at a meeting of the world's top 16 polluters saw Mr Bush's comments as a US reluctance to commit to binding action on global warming.

Officials at the Washington forum said legally-set international targets were the only way to tackle climate change.

Mr Bush stressed that combating climate change should not damage the economy, and he again hinted that the US would not commit itself to mandatory CO2 cuts.

"Each nation must decide for itself the right mix of tools and technology to achieve results that are measurable and environmentally effective," Mr Bush told delegates in Washington.

But, his comments did not go down well with a number of the ministers, diplomats and officials attending the US-sponsored forum on energy security and climate change.

So, if I have this right, the U.S. wants to set it's own (low) CO2 cuts. What Bush is saying is; O.K., O.K. Maybe there is something to this global warming, but we are not going to do anything about it if it's not in our political interest.

Here we have another example of the US Government being very "re-active" on an issue when they should be leading the way with "pro-active" policies.

They just don't "get it!

Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God at http://www.god-101.com/ and the blog "Perspective" at http://god-101.blogspot.com/