U.N. climate pact unlikely until after Bush

The world is trying to solve a very pressing climate problem. As a major user of fossil fuels the United States should be in the forefront of this process. Here is what one of the experts at a recent climate conference had to say.

"Everyone is waiting for the United States. I think the whole process will be on ice until 2009," when Bush's second term expires, said Paal Prestrud, head of the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo.

Is anyone embarrassed for the United States. I am. We cannot be part of a solution to global warming if we don't participate. But as the major contributor to the greenhouse gases that cause global warming we sure are a real part of the problem. If we don't participate not only does nothing get done but we will be blamed for all of the perceived problems that global warming might bring. We have to get this thing off dead center somehow.
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