Police clash with protesters at G8 summit.
The LA Times reports that
President Bush conceded Wednesday that global warming is a real environmental problem and that human-caused pollution worsens it. "Listen, I recognize the surface of the Earth is warmer," Bush told reporters in Denmark, "and that an increase in greenhouse gases caused by humans is contributing to the problem."
Finally, in the hours before the G-8 summit, he grudgingly joined the other leaders of developed nations in showing respect for the research on climate change instead of calling for more studies and appointing oil-industry lobbyists who soft-pedal scientific reports.
But the president's new stance throws into even starker relief his refusal to join with other nations in taking substantive steps against climate change. The potential for long-term disaster, as Bush's strange equation adds it up, isn't equal to the importance of short-term economic protection.
(photo: Allesandro Bianchi/Reuters)
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