U.S. Delegation Walks Out of Climate Talks

A fittingly disgraceful end to two weeks of shameful stonewalling on climate change, by an Administration that refuses to act on scientific knowledge when it contradicts its ideology or the demands of its financiers.

U.S. Delegation Walks Out of Climate Talks - New York Times: "Two weeks of treaty talks on global warming neared an end today with the world's current and projected leaders in emissions of greenhouse gases, the United States and China, still refusing to take any mandatory steps to avoid dangerous climate change. The Bush administration was sharply criticized by other governments and by environmental groups for walking out of a round of informal discussions shortly after midnight that were aimed at finding new ways of curbing gases."

UPDATE: Remember what is like back when we had a real President? And apparently Clinton's address on the final day of the conference of the parties in Montreal made the Bushies go apoplectic...apparently threatening the walk-out which they ended up doing.