Posted in Political on 02/15/2007 12:49 pm by admin
London, Feb. 15 - The following is the full transcript of a press conference by United States President George W. Bush at the White House. Bush accused Iran on Wednesday of providing deadly improvised explosive devises, or IEDs, to networks inside Iraq.
THE PRESIDENT: Thanks for coming in on an icy day. I have just finished a conversation with General David Petraeus. He gave me his first briefing from Iraq. He talked about the Baghdad security plan. It’s the plan that I described to the nation last January, and it’s a plan that’s beginning to take shape. General Petraeus and General Odierno talked about how the fact that the Iraqi government is following through on its commitment to deploy three additional army brigades, Iraqi army brigades in the capital. We talked about where those troops are being deployed, the position of U.S. troops with them, as well as the embeds with the Iraqi troops, and we talked about the plan.
He also talked about the new Iraqi commander. The commander who Prime Minister Maliki picked to operate the Baghdad security plan is in place; they’re setting up a headquarters and they’re in the process of being in a position to be able to coordinate all forces. In other words, there’s still some work to be done there to get the command and control center up and running in Baghdad. Read the rest of this entry »
Ian Sample, science correspondent
Friday February 2, 2007
The Guardian
Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world’s largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.
Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Travel expenses and additional payments were also offered.
The UN report was written by international experts and is widely regarded as the most comprehensive review yet of climate change science. It will underpin international negotiations on new emissions targets to succeed the Kyoto agreement, the first phase of which expires in 2012. World governments were given a draft last year and invited to comment. Read the rest of this entry »
The current climate change as a result of human activities and greenhouse gas emissions poses a more serious threat to life on Earth than previously expected, said top Chinese and global climate scientists in a statement in Paris on Friday.
The UN climate panel issued its strongest warning yet on Friday that human activities are heating the planet, putting extra pressure on governments to do more. - Reuters
A summary of their findings:
* Probable temperature rise between 1.8C and 4C
* Possible temperature rise between 1.1C and 6.4C
* Sea level most likely to rise by 28-43cm
* Arctic summer sea ice disappears in second half of century
* Increase in heatwaves very likely
* Increase in tropical storm intensity likely Read the rest of this entry »