Whose side is British Prime Minister Tony Blair on? For years he’s been toeing the line on global
warming and providing verbal support for the European approach, the carbon emission limits of the Kyoto
accord. Now, according to
James Pinkerton, he’s changed his tune.
At the Clinton Summit in New York recently he said he would be “brutally honest.”
"My thinking has changed in the past three or four years." So what does he think now?
"No country," he declared, "is going to cut its growth." That is, no country is going to allow the
Kyoto treaty, or any other such
global-warming treaty, to crimp -- some say cripple -- its economy.
OK, fine. There’s nothing like taking a dose of reality, every now and again. So what policy does
Blair recommend now?
"What countries will do is work together to develop the science and technology...
There is no way that we are going to
tackle this problem unless we develop the science and technology to do it."
Er, isn’t that the policy of the Bush administration? To deal with global warming by developing
technology rather than by imposing unrealistic caps on carbon emission?
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