World has 7 years for key climate decisions: Blair:
The world has seven years to take vital decisions and implement measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions or it could be too late, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday.
Blair said the battle against global warming would only be won if the United States, India and China were part of a framework that included targets and that succeeded the 1992 Kyoto Protocol climate pact.
“If we don’t get the right agreement internationally for the period after which the
Kyoto protocol will expire — that’s in 2012 — if we don’t do that then I think we are in serious trouble,” he told a parliamentary committee.
Arbitrary deadlines and more government spending: Is there any problem that bureaucrats and politicos don’t think they can solve?
So… he’s like a James Bond villain, except REALLY slow? :-)