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Article: Bush drops pledge on carbon dioxide emissions GLOBAL WARMING: Environmentalists dismayed at President's U-turn as scientists unveil first direct evidence of worsening greenhouse effect
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 15, 2001
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GEORGE BUSH gave a slap in the face to the world's efforts to
combat climate change yesterday when he abandoned a campaign promise
to regulate power station emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the
"greenhouse gas" believed to cause global warming.
His decision, which gravely threatens the already weak US
commitment to the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 climate change treaty, was
lambasted by environmentalists in the US and across the world, who
accused Mr Bush of betrayal and selling out to the energy industry.
The US is the biggest emitter of CO2, with just four per cent of
the world's population producing nearly a quarter of the global
total, and the President's move, while not directly linked ...