Unilateral Environment

Blair is being forced to attack the emission standards to meet such goals as laid out in the Kyoto Treaty Unilaterally, after somebody told him that the Bush Administration apparently hates meteorolgy:

Tony Blair was today urged to break with George Bush over climate change as it emerged from leaked G8 papers that the US is unwilling to put its name to anything that says the world is getting hotter.

Details of a draft communique drawn up for the July 6-8 summit at Gleneagles suggest the world's leading industrial democracies have failed to agree on the most basic issues.

With Africa, the issue of climate change shares top billing on the prime minister's agenda for the Perthshire summit, but the US is proving intransigent over global warming. Alone among the G8, Washington has refused to sign the Kyoto agreement on cutting carbon emissions.

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Stephen Tindale, executive director of Greenpeace, said: "Blair says climate change is the gravest threat we face but it seems his friend in the White House refuses even to admit that our world is warming. It is like claiming al-Qaida never existed.

"The prime minister should press on regardless, working with independent US states like California that recognise the problem exists and that a solution must be found."