Bush and Britain Worlds Apart on Climate Control ; GLOBAL WARMING Cabinet Think-Tank's Environmental Report Backs Alternative Power as US Puts Its Faith in the Status Quo

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ONE EARTH; one atmosphere; one future; but yesterday, the Governments of the United Kingdom and the United States set out two very different approaches to protecting the world from the threat to us all posed by global warming.

In London, a detailed blueprint demonstrated how we could cut massively the emissions of carbon dioxide from power stations and motor vehicles which are causing the world's climate to overheat; in Washington, capital of the country which produces vastly more of these emissions than any other, a plan was put forward to let them increase.

Not that President George Bush would want the latter proposal to be taken that way; but that will be the …