This will be my third post in a row relating to the G8 summit going on in Gleneagles, Scotland this week, but hey – third time’s the charm, right? Unfortunately I doubt many readers will find the news charming:

Negotiators from the G8 countries were poring over a draft communique and "action plan" that summit leaders were expected to endorse as early as Thursday, mid-way through their three-day meeting.

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On the draft communique, the United States was still blocking agreement that global warming was such a big problem that there was an "urgent need to act," said Richard Dixon of WWF Scotland.

The document, he said, also had a "vacuous" commitment on the Kyoto Protocol, the UN pact on cutting greenhouse gases that was ditched by Bush in March 2001 in one of his very first acts since taking over the Oval Office.

Promises to provide funds for renewable energy and energy efficiency have been chopped out of the draft text, leaving the accent on belief that a technological breakthrough, in cleaner coal, nuclear power and hydrogen, will stave off the crisis, Dixon said.

Perhaps someone should inform Bush that hoping for a miracle is not a legitimate policy position.

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