Reply #5: Bush Hails G-8 summit's (meaningless) work on climate change

[ozymandius]

TOYAKO, Japan - President Bush on Wednesday hailed the move by G-8 leaders to coalesce behind a global climate-change strategy, claiming "significant progress."

"In order to address climate change, all major economies must be at the table, and that's what took place today," Bush said at the conclusion of the summit of leading industrialized nations — a get-together that he said also worked to advance free trade and combat hunger and disease around the world, particularly in Africa.

The global warming statement represented quite a progression for Bush, who in his first term disputed scientists' assertions about this problem. He backed the G-8 summit declaration that greenhouse gas emissions should be halved by the middle of the century.

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Bush took no questions from reporters in delivering his departure statement. Nor did he address criticisms that emerged about the G-8's positions, such as the contention by some environmental activists that the group's stance on reducing global warming amounted to political window-dressing and did not go far enough — or fast enough.

Instead, he sought to frame the summit as a glowing success.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080709/ap_on_re_as/bush_g8

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Another photo-op for his new frame...