Bush, pollution, delusions: did he really say that?

The timing of these two stories was interesting. First, George Bush reported as signing off from the G8 with the line: ‘Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter‘. Picked up the Independent, Telegraph and across the blogs; Climate Progress or, perhaps, the Greenpeace US blog probably says it best:
193 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes until Bush [...]

Scrapheap Kyoto, Failures in leadership at G8

Back in 2005 I analysed Kyoto as a document of economic privilege rather than environmental protection. Now the G8 statement on climate change is announced with considerable chatter on the margins gaining pace for the scrapping of Kyoto. Some links:

Global Dashboard: Kicking Kyoto
Democracy Journal: Nordhaus and Schellenberger say ‘Scrap Kyoto’
Nature: Gwyn Pryns and Steve Rayner [...]