Bush's climatic diversion

It seems that the Decider's attempt to delay and forestall any real progress on combating global warming is likely to work. Britain and Germany have already told him that the UN process, and not Bush's new parallel approach, is the only way to go forward and that European targets that would limit acceptable warming to 2 degrees Celsius are not negotiable and now India is telling him that they will not accept a process that requires emerging economies to shoulder the same responsibility for reducing CO2 emissions as developed countries. And why should they be asked to? The vast majority of the warming to date has been caused by the West, the US and Europe primarily, who had the opportunity to grow their industrial sectors without any limits on the poison they dumped into the ecosphere; not to mention that they were also able to hide behind great walls of protectionism that kept competing economies at bay.