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Bush called 'Neanderthal' by greenhouse team
Calcutta News.Net
Thursday 17th April, 2008
The plan by US President George Bush to cap greenhouse gases by 2025 has been called "Neanderthal" by climate change ministers in Paris.
Delegates at the ministerial-level meeting of major carbon emitters, including the US and the European Union, were unimpressed by his plan to halt the growth of US emissions by 2025.
In a statement entitled "Bush's Neanderthal speech," German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said that Bush’s speech had not shown leadership, but “losership“.
In his speech on Wednesday, Mr Bush, instead of setting a date for US emission cuts, simply outlined the year 2025 as the time by which the emissions would peak.
In addition, he renewed his attack on Kyoto-style mandatory emissions caps and pressed big emerging countries to make concessions.
A White House spokesman has responded to the Paris reaction by saying the Bush administration still has a good record of setting goals and achieving them.
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