U.S. Pressure Weakens G-8 Climate Plan

Posted on Sunday, June 19, 2005

A collection of links to news stories indicating that the U.S. government used its influence to weaken the Climate Change Plan of Action [PDF] produced from the G-8 Summit in Scotland on 6-8 July 2005.

• "U.S. Pressure Weakens G-8 Climate Plan: Global Warming Science Assailed." Washington Post, Friday, June 17, 2005
• "The climate's all wrong for summit to deliver changes." The Herald (UK), June 10, 2005. "Do these seedy insights into how the Bush White House really operates remind you of anything?"
• "Blair turns up global warming heat." Article by Robert Novak in the Chicago Sun-Times, June 13, 2005. Novak notes that "the departed mole Rick Piltz has many allies."
• "How high-pressure politics threatens action on climate." Observer (UK), June 19, 2005. Originally posted at link "For the past four years, the Bush administration has mounted an all-out war against the country's climatologists..."

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