...With a "serious disciplined effort" to develop energy-saving technology, he said, "we could meet and surpass the Kyoto targets in a way that would strengthen and not weaken our economies."
Clinton, a champion of the Kyoto Protocol, the existing emissions-controls agreement opposed by the Bush administration, spoke in the final hours of a two-week UN climate conference at which Washington has come under heavy criticism for its stand.
Most delegations appeared ready Friday to leave an unwilling United States behind and open a new round of negotiations on future cutbacks in the emissions blamed for global warming.
"There's no longer any serious doubt that climate change is real, accelerating and caused by human activities," said Clinton, whose address was interrupted repeatedly by enthusiastic applause. "We are uncertain about how deep and the time of arrival of the consequences, but we are quite clear they will not be good."
Canadian officials said the US delegation was displeased with the last-minute scheduling of the Clinton speech.
I'll bet they were.
For one thing, nobody at Cheneyburton knows how to make money off of alternative energy sources. Although they're out there, and no, I'm not talking biodiesel from palm oil or electricity from nuclear power.
For another thing, if there's no future energy crunch, you can kiss the neo feudal agenda of the TheoCons and Bu$hCo good-bye.
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