by MONITOR
IT had been widely supposed that President Putin would use the occasion of a Moscow conference on climate change to announce Russia's formal ratification of the Kyoto treaty on global warming. But although he turned up to open the conference on Monday, he ducked the chance to ally Russia with Europe, Japan and many other countries which adopted the Kyoto agreement three years ago. Instead, he said that his government was closely studying the matter and believed that more scientific research into the actual degree of danger posed by global warming was needed. This is almost exactly the position that President Bush took in the first year of his presidency despite the fact that several reports by distinguished scientists had asserted that global warming is a reality and needs to be checked.
PUTIN PREVARICATES
01/10/2003 00:00
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