The article is narrow in scope because it's limited to the upcoming Eurpoean Big 8 conference. However implicit in the writing, based on all the Bushies's past rhetoric that global warming is bad for business and is pseudo science, is the gnawing suspicion that Bush really doesn't intend to actually do anything. Looks like he is running out the clock until the upcoming 2008 ultra conservative debacle at the polls.

A well-balanced article about Bush's half-hearted attempt to make nice with the G8--another example of how the US is behind the rest of the industrialized world--be it health care, capital punishment, civil liberties, and other noteworthy issues.

Provides context to the recent pronouncements from the White House on global warming and how they are playing internationally.

This short piece stakes some of the maneuvering between the Bush / US corporate avoidance of 'environmental responsibility' (er) in lite of European attempts to hold Bush & co's feet to the (er) fire. G8 represents..?..this question is never asked.This can easily be considered fluff.....

This sis a story of vital importance to the well being of the whole world. The reporting was fair, open, no snide remarks, but factual.

How one can write an article on climate without prominent mention of the Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean development and Climate is beyond understanding. It is more important than anything the U.N. can or will do. It is far more important than Kyoto, which does not involve the most populous countries in the world (which the partnership does).

Why not headline the story "Attempted German Grab at Crippling US Economy Thwarted by Bush?" It would be just as true. The story fails to mention that the EU is not even meeting its commitments under Kyoto or that its emissions trading scheme is a non-working disaster. Why try a re-vamped "Plan A" when the previous Plan A didn't work at all? Plus, it is all politics/ideology and essentially no science. No American President (well, Maybe a President Kucinich) would possibly embrace a UN-centered command-and-control domination of the US economy. The Senate wouldn't accept it any more than they did Kyoto. Pointless is the best word to describe this story.

You keep parroting the deliberate mis-information about by who and when Kyoto was presented to the US. It was Clinton, not Bush, who did not present this economic suicide-pact to us. You do not mention that these agreements do NOT contain any mention of the two biggest and most populous polluters, i.e., China and India. Without those two, any such reductions are either impossible, or ludacrisly economically damaging.

As other reviewers note, it is very politically loaded with all the leftist P.C. viewpoints prominently featured, and anything contrary not admitted to in the least