Bush won't change climate policy, chief negotiator says (Reuters)

[Eugene]

Bush won't change climate policy, chief negotiator says
08 Nov 2006 15:38:21 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent

NAIROBI, Nov 8 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's chief climate negotiator
dashed European hopes of a U.S. shift to tougher curbs on global warming on
Wednesday after the Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives.

"I do not see any change in our policy. We feel very comfortable," U.S. senior
climate negotiator Harlan Watson told Reuters during 189-nation U.N. talks
in Nairobi on ways to fight global warming.

"The president...feels very comfortable that we are making progress and he sees
no reason to change," he said of U.S. goals of slowing, but not capping, rising
emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels.

The Democrats swept Bush's Republicans out of power in the U.S. House of
Representatives in Tuesday's election and moved to the brink of control in the
Senate, the upper house, where they led in two tight races they need for a
majority.

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Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L08858646.htm

[Dead_Parrot]

1. Sadly...

...although I think there's much room for any more damage (now that chimpy's nuts have been served to him on a silver platter), we still a dem in the Whitehouse to get things going in the right direction.

Hey, Al, what's your diary like for the next 10 years?