US Doubts Possibility Of Post-Kyoto Climate Agreement - Reuters

[hatrack]

BONN - "Washington doubted the survival of the UN's Kyoto protocol on global warming beyond 2012 on Tuesday as many nations hailed the first UN talks on a long-term widening of the accord.

"It's not clear that there's going to be a Kyoto effort beyond 2012," Harlan Watson, US senior climate negotiator, told Reuters on the second day of a two-day 190-nation seminar on ways to renew Kyoto beyond a first period running to 2012.

"It's going to be very difficult" to renew Kyoto, he said, adding there was such a wide range of views among participants on tackling global warming that it would be difficult for them to reach any consensus beyond 2012.

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Watson said Washington had no plans to sign up for Kyoto-style caps on carbon dioxide even though he said that US emissions dipped in 2003 below 2000 levels. "It's hard to imagine that emissions will not increase again," he said, pointing to economic growth and a rising population. The US senate has in the past rejected proposals to cap US emissions at 2000 levels."

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http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/30842/story.htm

[phantom power]

1. What is he saying? We didn't sign on to Kyoto in the first place.

I mean, is this just the US, standing on the sidelines, saying "you guys will never make this work!" ...?

Party of optimism, my hiney.

[Dead_Parrot]

2. Wow...

"Harlan Watson, US senior climate negotiator"

The Bush admin actually pays someone to sit around saying "No"?
That's got to be one of the easiest jobs in the world...

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Hi Hatrack

Love that avatar!

:hi:

:woohoo:

[hatrack]

4. Hey, p2bl! Wassup?

They didn't have a "Bruised Darwin" avatar, apropos of recent events in Kansas, but that's life.