Bush climate meeting draws protest
President Bush is holding a meeting on climate change this week with the leaders of China, India and other major polluters that, like the U.S., so far have refused to cut their carbon dioxide emissions.
The Bush administration has already said it doesn't intend to discuss mandatory caps on the pollutants, only voluntary reductions.
A group of activists from Maryland, including the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, plan to offer their opinion of the president's stance during a rally at noon tomorrow (Friday, Sept. 28) in Washington's San Martín Park, at the corner of E Street, 21st Street, and Virginia Avenue NW. Details follow:
Here is the press release from the Chesapeake Climate Action Network:
WASHINGTON— Local activists from across the DC region concerned that President George Bush is advocating the wrong approach to global warming at his “major emitters” summit here this week will meet outside the State Department for a rally at 12 p.m. on Friday, September 28. The rally will be held in San Martín Park, at the corner of E Street, 21st Street, and Virginia Avenue NW.
The rally will focus on sending the message to President Bush that he is going the “Wrong Way” on global warming. Activists will hold up “Wrong Way” road signs and speakers will call for the United States to take a leadership role in fighting global warming. Specifically, activists will ask the administration to:
- Support mandatory, rather than voluntary, limits on greenhouse gas emissions that would hold warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels;
- Show leadership at home by cutting U.S. emissions at least 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, regardless of what other countries do;
- Support the United Nations process that includes all nations and push for a strong-post Kyoto treaty; and
- Acknowledge that the “major emitters” causing global warming must help fund adaptation measures for the developing world.
Groups organizing the rally include the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Energy Action, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Oil Change International, SustainUS, the U.S. Climate Action Network, and the U.S. Climate Emergency Council.
WHAT: “Wrong Way” Rally Responding to Bush’s Major Emitters Summit
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., Friday, September 28
WHERE: San Martín Park
E Street, 21st Street and Virginia Avenue NW (just north of the State Department), Washington, D.C. Four blocks from Foggy Bottom Metro Station.
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Comments
I read that George Bush is indifferent to global warming; he just doesn't care. And apparently Bush is focused more on Cheney's interests in the energy industry. Probably both Bush and Cheney will ignore global warming... they don't want to sign the Kyoto Protocol. Environmentalists will be angry at them, but then again much of the American public doesn't care about climate change.
Myself, I can't decide... depends whether global warming disasters will happen soon, or in 20 years or 100 years... who knows...
Posted by: Does George Bush care about global warming? | December 14, 2007 4:32 AM