Anthropogenic Global Warming and President Bush's Clayton's Solution. (June 2, 2007)

    While Australians wait for the Prime Minister, John Howard, to release the report he has received into emissions trading and his outline of the Government's response -- in which he is expected to promise that any measures will not come at the expense of the economy -- the US President, George W Bush has made known his "plan" for combating the problem whose name didn't publicly cross his lips until the beginning of this year.

Here is Bob Park's (What's New) take:

 CLIMATE CHANGE: BUSH PROPOSES A NEW APPROACH - SET GOALS.

President Bush rejected the Kyoto treaty six years ago, saying it would "harm our economy." "Climate change" did not show up in Bush’s vocabulary until his 2007 State-of-the-Union address. Yesterday, however, pressured to take action, he trotted out his "new international climate change framework," declaring "the United States takes this issue seriously." Other leaders at next week’s G-8 summit, who are leaning toward a bold German plan to reduce greenhouse emissions 50% by 2050, are unlikely to be impressed. The plan outlined by the White House is classic Bush: it contained no concrete targets or dates, no enforcement mechanism, no penalties for noncompliance, and it wouldn’t take effect until four years after Bush leaves office.

Looks like Mr Howard wants to take all of we with GWB.