Three days prior to President Bush hosts his own climate change talk, the UN opened today a climate change summit saying: "we must act internationally now." President Bush disagrees that this global problem should be addressed on the global stage, and has chosen not to participate in the UN summit.  Bush proposes nations set their own limits. He's at least returning to his early campaigning days where he recognized climate change as a problem that needed addressing, but why is he so afraid to be held accountable (which is really just a figure of speech when it comes to the U.S. at the U.N.) to the world for limiting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions?

 

The New York Times report suggests an interesting twist by a popular terminator may have undermined some of the wind under Bush's sails. Swarchenegger batted clean up after UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (South Korea) called for global action. Schwarzenegger claimed California would pull the United States along, and stated that the time has come for an international pact that embraces both poor and rich countries. Condoleeza Rice is scheduled to present the U.S. perspective at the UN climate change summit later today.

 

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