Surprise Surprise Surprise

In a New York Times article by AP, the fact that the United States plans to continue along a unilateral track in regards to climate change was highlighted. There is a UN climate change meeting going on right now in Bali at which the U.S. communicated their intentions retain a voluntary approach to rectifying climate change. Last September, the U.S. initiated climate change talks entitled Major Economies, in which the U.S. invited 16 other major economies. The NY Times article acknowledges the fact that this is the Bush Administrations way of undermining Kyoto talks. However, the scale of these talks are no where near the magnitude of Kyoto which necessitates 36 countries to cut emissions.

The fact the Bush Administration even acknowledged climate change is promising, however, the Major Economies talks definitely undermine Kyoto. Cooperation under one auspices is needed to meet the obstacles of climate change. By creating a completely different framework convention to discuss climate change is a waste of time. Watson, the U.S. representative at the UN talks in Bali, says that he does not know how Kyoto and Major Economies will converge, therefore stating, out right, the ill intentions of the Bush Administration. Obviously Bush couldn't avoid climate change anymore because of scientific consensus, so therefore this is his way of wasting time since his Administration is out the door.