”If we don't get the right agreement internationally for the period after which the Kyoto Protocol will expire -- that's in 2012 -- if we don't do that then I think we are in serious trouble.”
Asked if the world had seven years to implement measures on climate change before the problem reached "tipping point," Blair answered: “Yes.”
But, Tony the Poodle should well know by now that with BushCo, loyalty is totally a one-way street. So, scratch 2006-08, Tony; after you’ve left office and an environmentally-realistic non-Republican administration and Congress is in place here, then start giving us the “four years left” hard sell.
Unfortunately, the poodle continues to grasp at straws.
Blair said there were the "beginnings" of an international consensus and that Bush's comment in his State of the Union speech last week that America was "addicted to oil" was a sign of a change of mood but he urged Bush to move further.
“I think there are real signs of change,” he said. “I think if you could find a way of ensuring the right incentives weregiven without America feeling there was some desire to inhibit its economic growth, then I think we can find a way through.”
Did Blair not hear Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman repudiate Bush’s comments the very next day? (See my previous diary entry.
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