UN Talks on Climate Change

The Bush administration has opted out of the Kyoto standards, and has gone for a non-binding approach:

The Bush administration, which rejects the emissions cutbacks of the current Kyoto Protocol, accepted a second, weaker conference decision, agreeing to join an exploratory global "dialogue" on future steps to combat climate change. However, that agreement specifically ruled out "negotiations leading to new commitments."

Fortunately the rest of the developed world is forging ahead -- with encouragement from Bill Clinton among others. In an earlier post, I noted that some of the largest corporations have decided that climate change is too large a threat to ignore. The Republican stance is no surprise, it is part of their larger, and extremely depressing, War on Science. If you have any doubts that the Republican party has been hijacked by the right-wingers, this book will put all those doubts to rest. Science should be left to the scientists, not politicians beholden to Corporate and Religious interests.