<H4>Why not invite Ahhnold?</H4>

To the G-8’s first “dialogue” meeting on global warming with emerging nations.

From Yahoo:

The first “dialogue” meeting takes place in Britain on November 1, and although its agenda and participants at this early stage are unknown, the timing is important.

It will take place just a few weeks ahead of the first round of negotiations, in Montreal, on what happens after the Kyoto Protocol runs out in 2012. …

Blair's goal seems to be that the “dialogue” may encourage the United States into the post-Kyoto fold, if Washington can be convinced that these big countries will sign up to emissions targets, or something similar to them.

If the Ol’ Lapdog would invite The Ahhnold, who has set clear, forward-looking, Kyoto- and postKyoto-esque goals to get the carbon out of California, he might just increase the political pressure on Georgie-Porgie enough to get more “traction.” And, if nothing else, Blair would shed more of his lapdog image.