SYDNEY, Sept. 6 – One of the first agreements to emerge Wednesday from meetings between President Bush and Australian Prime Minister John Howard was a pledge to take joint action to combat climate change. It is an issue that neither leader has been closely associated with in the past. Both Australia and the United States refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 U.N.-led effort that set goals for major industrialized nations to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.
The elite agency has been going all out to win positive press for the hosts of the UN climate talks.
One of the sponsors of the UK pavilion has worked with major polluters to help them extract more oil and gas.
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 blueprint proposes sweeping anti-climate policies.
Former ExxonMobil climate scientist Lindsey Gulden: "It was after I was fired for reporting a garden variety fraud that I really sat back and thought about the implications for climate change."
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