Bush to G8: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter'
"President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit.
As he prepared to fly out from Japan, he told his fellow leaders: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."
President Bush made the private joke in the summit's closing session, senior sources said yesterday. His remarks were taken as a two-fingered salute from the President from Texas who is wedded to the oil industry. He had given some ground at the summit by saying he would "seriously consider" a 50 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2050.
But green groups had protested that the meeting was a missed opportunity to secure the radical reductions in carbon emissions that were needed to reduce global warming. China and India, who were among the emerging economies invited to the summit, refused to sign up to binding agreements without firmer commitments from the US and the other industrialised nations to cut their CO2 emissions."
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JESUS H. CHRIST. IS IT JANUARY 20, 2009 YET?! ...not that we'll have a good President then, but at least we'll have a variation on the moron that represents us!
However, LMAO at this being a "private" joke...yeah, like Obama's private joke about the bitter, religion clinging, gun toting middle class. Also amusing is Bush "considering" anything about 2050. If we can make it through the next 6 months it'll be the next moron's problem...and he will be ours. Sigh.
The worst part {because Bush said something stupid...how is that surprising?} just might be that China and India are following suit. Now we have the world's scariest biggest and most powerful emerging economies refusing to own up to global warming and the fact that the whole world is killing the whole world. Ugh.
As he prepared to fly out from Japan, he told his fellow leaders: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."
President Bush made the private joke in the summit's closing session, senior sources said yesterday. His remarks were taken as a two-fingered salute from the President from Texas who is wedded to the oil industry. He had given some ground at the summit by saying he would "seriously consider" a 50 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2050.
But green groups had protested that the meeting was a missed opportunity to secure the radical reductions in carbon emissions that were needed to reduce global warming. China and India, who were among the emerging economies invited to the summit, refused to sign up to binding agreements without firmer commitments from the US and the other industrialised nations to cut their CO2 emissions."
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JESUS H. CHRIST. IS IT JANUARY 20, 2009 YET?! ...not that we'll have a good President then, but at least we'll have a variation on the moron that represents us!
However, LMAO at this being a "private" joke...yeah, like Obama's private joke about the bitter, religion clinging, gun toting middle class. Also amusing is Bush "considering" anything about 2050. If we can make it through the next 6 months it'll be the next moron's problem...and he will be ours. Sigh.
The worst part {because Bush said something stupid...how is that surprising?} just might be that China and India are following suit. Now we have the world's scariest biggest and most powerful emerging economies refusing to own up to global warming and the fact that the whole world is killing the whole world. Ugh.