BBC Not Keen On Bush Anti-Kyoto Stand

BBC reports what we knew was coming. Bush has disappointed conservatives some since his re-election, but on the Kyoto treaty, he's right on the money ... much to BBC's dismay. Here's some of the interview they had with him:

Mr Bush said he would resist any deal that would require countries to reduce carbon emissions - similar to the 1997 UN Kyoto protocol, which the US never signed.

"If this looks like Kyoto, the answer is no," he said in an interview with ITV's Tonight With Trevor McDonald programme. "The Kyoto treaty would have wrecked our economy, if I can be blunt."

He said he hoped the other G8 leaders would "move beyond the Kyoto debate" and consider new technologies as a way of tackling global warming.

The US was investing in developing techniques such as sequestration of carbon dioxide in underground wells, hydrogen-powered cars and zero emission power stations, he said.

"I think you can grow your economy and at the same time do a better job of harnessing greenhouse gases," he said.

BBC, like most media, is not a big fan of non-doctrinaire views on global warming. They were careful in the pre-G8 British goodwill fest to come out with an overtly negative news story; but as they say, a picture is worth a thousand years. And look at the picture they ran.


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