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Conservatives Accuse Blair of Being Weak on Climate Change

 

In a depressing illustration of just how far global consensus on

climate change has left the U.S. behind, this week British Prime

Minister Tony Blair was criticized for doing too little on global

warming by Michael Howard, the leader of the conservative Tory party.

Howard attacked Blair for failing to use his close relationship with

President Bush to push the U.S. to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. He

accused Blair's Labor Party of putting all its eggs in the onshore

wind-power basket, ignoring the potential of several other forms of

renewable energy. " Promoting greener behavior need not hold back

economic growth or restrict choice, " Howard said, " but the longer we

delay action, the harder it will be to achieve the outcome. "

Meanwhile, Blair and Howard were both criticized from the left by the

Liberal Democratic Party for dropping the ball on climate change and

other green issues. Lest we belabor the point, however, notice:

Britain's three leading political parties are competing to see who

can take the toughest line on global warming. Compare and contrast.

 

straight to the source: The Telegraph, 13 Sep 2004

<http://www.grist.org/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=3035>

 

straight to the source: The Guardian, Paul Brown, 11 Sep 2004

<http://www.grist.org/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=3036>