The Group of Eight summit in Italy agreed to keep the earth's mean temperature to no more than two degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above 1900 levels by 2020. However, they can't agree on a plan to cut carbon emissions to meet that goal, so the objective is, well, kind of meaningless.
So much for 2020 vision.
I also have a sneaky suspicion that they can't even agree whether to make the Celsius reading or the Fahrenheit reading official. President Obama would be expected to hold firm on Fahrenheit to get a deal on global warming policy. (Imagine the headline: "US To World - You Go Metric, We Go Home!")
Obama and Russian President Dmitiri Medvedyev talked earlier this week in Moscow about cutting nuclear stockpiles. the big story out of that meeting was that . . . they talked. Oh well, it's a start.
I noticed Sasha and Malia Obama accompanying their folks on their European trip. Well, they'll have no trouble coming up for their first assignment of the new school year - an essay answering the question, "What did you do on your summer vacation?" :-D
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