[Ost-news] Kings of the coal habit

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Kings of the coal habit  
The fate of our warming planet hinges on six nations, and five of them meet in Sydney this week

Jeremy Leggett  
Wednesday September 5, 2007  
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2162457,00.html][1]

Through his long years of greenhouse denial, George Bush must have been particularly grateful to John Howard. The Australian prime minister was quick to join Bush in refusing to ratify the Kyoto protocol, and has batted for his country's coal interests as trenchantly as Bush has batted for US coal and oil interests.

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    [1]: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2162457,00.html (http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2162457,00.html)
    [2]: http://oilsandstruth.org/kings-coal-habit

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