The US announced that it has made a deal with Australia, South Korea, India, China, and Japan to develop “clean coal” and work with existing wind power plants to reduce pollution. Bush insists that the pact has no effect on the Kyoto treaty, on which the US and Australia have not signed. The Kyoto treaty stresses climate control while this new pact focuses more on alternative fuel sources. Many are worried that it is the US’ way of getting away from the Kyoto treaty. It doesn’t help that the US produces 25% of the Greenhouse gases.
Now, of course, when I mention the environment as one of the reasons Bush was a horrible President, his supporters will now say “don’t you remember that pact?” Damn…well, I guess I still have the unsigned Kyoto treaty, oil drills in Alaska, and his inability to agree that man causes climate change.
Pierre Pettigrew, Canada’s foreign minister, said the new initiative at least indicated that the US and Australia acknowledge the climate change problem, but added that they now should produce results. “I still have to wait for the meat,” he said.
