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chelidonU.S. isolated on climate change
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Melting glaciers, the shrinking ice cap, warming oceans and rising sea levels -- all are urgent concerns around the world, and cause for frustration among many nations that believe the United States has set a glacial pace toward reversing the onset of global warming.
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No surprises here, sad to say. Future history books will mark this moment in time as a tremendous lost opportunity for the United States to show some real leadership in lessening the severity of the ecological damage to come, and its hugely negative impact on people around the world. I strongly suspect that Bush's name will become a common curse word, at least for those decreasing number around the world for whom it is not already so.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Melting glaciers, the shrinking ice cap, warming oceans and rising sea levels -- all are urgent concerns around the world, and cause for frustration among many nations that believe the United States has set a glacial pace toward reversing the onset of global warming.
(Full story)
No surprises here, sad to say. Future history books will mark this moment in time as a tremendous lost opportunity for the United States to show some real leadership in lessening the severity of the ecological damage to come, and its hugely negative impact on people around the world. I strongly suspect that Bush's name will become a common curse word, at least for those decreasing number around the world for whom it is not already so.
