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From the article: "German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in last-ditch efforts to secure climate change goals at a G8 summit marred by a row over US missile defence plans. The US has already said it and several other countries at the summit of top industrial states oppose her target. At the same time, US plans to build a missile shield in two former Soviet satellites have sparked an intense war of words between Moscow and Washington."

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MilesAway
June 6, 2007, 7:16 a.m.

OK folks, just forget Global Warming, Al Gore, Neo - Conservative, Liberals for time being.
How about stopping pollution of air we breathe and water we drink, vegetables we grow and animals we breed or animals in the WILD?
If anyone still have denial about POLLUTING OUR PLANET and need scientific proof, just that is proof that HIS/HER brain is destroyed by breathing polluted air, drinking polluted water, eating polluted vegetables and meat... My wife, an famous Chinese artist, when she had art show at Chinese National Arts Museum (1999) about "MAN & NATURE" (or Chinese Green Revolution) made this statement:
"...It is unreasonable to take forcible action in order to conquer own village..." and she is not communist, not Neo-Con and nor Liberal eather...
(Oh, all paintings about "Man & Nature" is posted on our website).
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zman
June 6, 2007, 8:09 a.m.
Miles - you are correct. It is unthinkable the harm we have done and we need to work together to find solutions vs threatening each other (which seems to be the only Diplomacy efforts the last few years)
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bill2936
June 6, 2007, 9:44 a.m.
Any thoughts that the others want to talk about missle defense because they are not meeting and not intending to meet their Kyoto Accord numbers?
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Starbuck
June 6, 2007, 12:05 p.m.
It's time to start doing what we can to: a) dissolve the power that the govt. has to make decisions of real importance. These people do not, and never have, worked in the interest of the common good.
b) Change our world regardless of the rhetoric, lies, and distractions offered by the (so called) ruling class.
C'mon people, it's painfully obvious by now what Bu$h-co and the other "leaders" are up to. Wake up.
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NelsonR
June 6, 2007, 12:07 p.m.
Kyoto would not have assisted anything since China and other developing countries would have had a free hand while restricting developed countries. No treaty is better than a biased treaty. Eventually maybe all our so called leaders will have enough brains to conclude an agreement that benefits the world, not just some nations while the global environment suffers.
The Cuban analogy with missles applies to this argument but lets face it folks, Bush is the enabler of world discord.
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RussianOtaku
June 6, 2007, 1:54 p.m.
I see a lot of complaints, but little in way of solutions offered. Its is a fact that most of the developed countries are reducing their emissions. It is most likely that they are not doing it at a level that will have a significant enough impact on the environment. However untill there is a change in public consciousness that removes the highly competetive capitalist system out of world economics, there is little chance that humanitarian/enviromental concerns will superceed the place of profits. BP just invested $8 billion into R&D firm researching alternative enrgy sources. In order to generate that $8 billion BP had to sell how many barrels of non-replenishable oil?
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saintetienne
June 6, 2007, 2:36 p.m.
The biased Kyoto Treaty, which restricts developed nations (i.e. United States) with environmental controls while allowing developing nations (i.e. China, India) a free rein, makes about as much sense as Al Gore's Carbon Footprint hooey, where you're allowed to "buy" your way out of polluting the planet.
In the end, the planet still gets polluted, it's just China and India doing it and not the U.S., and in the case of Gore's Carbon Footprint "idea", it's fat, wealthy Dum-o-crats and their homes and private jets that pollute, while they pay us peons not to.
The United States is totally correct in NOT signing anything that doesn't make it equal for all across the board. Even Al Bore.
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Macondo
June 6, 2007, 4:21 p.m.
Is Mr Bush going to surprise German Chancellor Angela Merkel, with an unsolicited back rub as he did in an other international meeting sometime ago ?
Is this the only level of international diplomacy he masters ?
Announcing he will not sign a proposal before the proposal is officially presented is not only stupid but arrogant and a spit in the face of other members of the G8.
Now he wants to gang up with the other polluters.(China and India.)
What kind of message is he sending to the rest of the world.
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glaeken
June 6, 2007, 8:31 p.m.
Merkel needs to loosen up.
Maybe our moron leader will give her another back rub?
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scott4261
June 6, 2007, 11:15 p.m.
It's funny. Even conservatives in other countries (and yes, Merkel is considered a conservative in Germany) acknowledge the reality of global warming. The conservatives in THIS COUNTRY have their heads buried DEEP, DEEP in the sand! All because the person who dares to speak out (Al Gore) is someone they so despise....
Doesn't ANYONE ELSE see the twisted logic here?
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innocent-bystander
June 7, 2007, 2:38 a.m.
Can we see some evidence that global warming is not cyclical? Is it possible that people need to adjust to Greenland being green? Damn global warming. Now the sky is falling.
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zman
June 7, 2007, 7:49 a.m.
Just what Iran and N Korea want to see - the US cannot even get along with our Allies. The Bush Administration has screwed up our Image in the world for decades to come. They have eschewed Diplomacy and created a much more dangerous world for us to live in. What a debacle!
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ETproductions
June 7, 2007, 8 a.m.
Hooray for King George. Once more, he sidesteps a chance to spoil his perfect record of mismanagement. He casts a vote for pollution and the continued destruction of life on our planet.