Originally published January 20 2006
U.S. does not participate in Montreal global warming solutions
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
While the United States is leading the world in emissions and industrial pollution, it is has yet to contribute to national initiatives that would decrease discharges in greenhouse gasses.
LIKE the sparse international coalition of countries that still deploy troops in Iraq, the nations that resist global efforts to combat man-made warming of the planet are limited to a select few.
At the recent climate change talks in Montreal, once again the United States and Australia were conspicuous in their status as the only industrial nations to refuse to consider a schedule for mandatory reductions in their discharges of heat-generating gases into the atmosphere.
As the accumulating scientific evidence has forced President Bush to acknowledge global warming as a proposition of when rather than if, U.S. negotiators at the conference clung to the policy of reducing greenhouse gas discharges through voluntary measures, including improved technology.
Chief U.S. negotiator Harlan L. Watson walked out of one session, objecting to the proposed title of a declaration calling for long-term international cooperation on global warming.
U.S. negotiators also objected to adding former President Bill Clinton as a speaker.
Clinton told the delegates that the reality of global warming has been proved by mounting evidence of melting ice caps, retreating glaciers and rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
Even without U.S. cooperation, 157 nations attending the United Nations conference agreed to continue negotiations to extend and deepen the emissions limits of the Kyoto Protocol beyond the year 2012.
President Bush rejects the Kyoto Protocol because emissions limits might damage the economy, while developing nations such as China and India are not required to curb their greenhouse gas discharges.
China indicated a willingness to work under future Kyoto limitations to curb its expanding industrial emissions, so long as the targets were voluntary.
In one of the few positive developments involving the U.S., the American delegation agreed to continue nonbinding talks with other nations on ways to slow down and eventually reverse global warming.
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