Bush today refused to budge, warning that such mandatory standards could cripple the U.S. economy and prove feckless if big polluters like China and India are not included, which they are not under Kyoto.
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If a consensus is not reach by 2012, when the Kyoto agreement expires, "then we've got a real problem for the future," Blair warned. The prime minister's decision to talk about concrete solutions next decade represents a setback to Blair and others who believe scientists warning of a dangerous rise in the earth's temperature are right.
Those "others who believe" would be the 94 percent of Americans who say we need to curb greenhouse gas emissions now.
Meanwhile, China and India have lined up behind Kyoto, leaving just us (or rather, just Bush).
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