United States Bows Down to Climate Change Calls

The United States has finally agreed to bow down on its opposition on the issues regarding climate change after being booed by participants in the United Nations Climate Conference in Indonesia. The thing is they should bow down first and foremost because they are after all one of the largest cause of global warming and emitter of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

The U.S. is worried of their inclusion in any post-Kyoto protocal and its effect on the already downsizing U.S. economy. President George W. Bush should be ashamed of himself and his worthless efforts in Climate Change when they cannot commit to cooperate in reducing carbon emissions. Also thanks to Noble Peace Prize winner Al Gore for opening up this issue on Climate Change throughout the United States and the world.

Full news story of this development after the jump.

The United States has dropped opposition to a compromise plan to launch talks on a new UN climate treaty after pleas from other nations.

"We will go forward and join consensus," Paula Dobriansky, heading the US delegation, told the 190-nation meeting to cheers from many in the audience, minutes after triggering boos by saying Washington was opposed.

The proposed compromise, breaking a deadlock between rich and poor nations, had been supported by all other previous speakers, including the European Union.

The talks have agreed to a roadmap for two-year negotiations leading to a new worldwide pact to roll back the peril of global warming.

The planned treaty would take effect at the end of 2012 after current commitments expire under the UN Kyoto Protocol.

The "Bali Roadmap" was approved by consensus among the 190 members of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) after gruelling negotiations that ran for 13 days, one more than scheduled.