DW: Merkel Calls for EU Climate Change Strategy

[blackhorse]

Merkel Calls for EU Climate Change Strategy

Europe needs to take the lead on tackling climate change and develop a unified strategy for when the Kyoto Protocol expires, German Chancellor Merkel after a meeting with British Prime Minister Blair.

Chancellor Angela Merkel, in London for talks and a private dinner with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, said it was also vital to any new agreement to involve the United States, which did not ratify the 1997 accord to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

"Europe needs a strategy for the time once the Kyoto Protocol has elapsed in 2012," she said. "We have to do everything in order to issue a wake-up call to all nations. Climate change is one of the great challenges of the 21st century."

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Persuading Washington that "this is a very important issue for all of us" is a critical task, she told reporters.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2225121,00.html

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Europe needs to think hard about the implications of thermohaline collapse induced by too much fresh water being dumped into the North Atlantic. No Gulf Stream = colder Europe . . .

[NNadir]

1. Maybe she should do something about her country's new coal plants.

One of her first initiatives on taking office was to announce that her country's new coal plants "don't count."

She needs to decisively move to overturn her country's silly nuclear phase out too.

[rpannier]

2. That's a great idea

Holding strategy (strategery for you republikkans) sessions with a guy who will be gone in less than a year. That's a productive use of time.

The only way we'll get a positive, comprehensive plan to combat global warming is by electing a Democratic President and a Democratic congress.