Bush Opts Out of U.N. Global Warming Talks

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Guess who’s coming to dinner?

In the case of today’s U.N. climate talks, it’s President Bush. Too bad he’s skipping the rest of the day.

Yes, that’s right, in yet another my-way-or-the-highway climate move, the president has declined to participate in a daylong U.N. meeting. The meeting’s goal? To bring world leaders together to fight climate change. But instead of joining the party, President Bush is throwing his own, with a different theme: He wants each of the world’s most powerful nations to set up its own carbon emissions standards. The embarrassing message: The U.S. doesn’t want to cooperate, and neither should anyone else!

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