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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (7927)	11/5/2006 7:23:23 AM
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2050 too late for climate change action: former U.S. adviser Last Updated: Thursday, October 26, 2006 \| 11:48 AM ET CBC News A former top U.S. official in the Bush administration says the world can't wait to tackle greenhouse gases until 2050, the date the Harper government wants Canada's emissions cut in half. "We don't get the luxury of kind of growing into an awareness, we need to begin acting right now," said Paul O'Neil, who served as treasury secretary in President George W. Bush's cabinet for two years. "There is no doubt that we have witnessed an enormous increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere over the last 100 years." O'Neil spoke Wednesday at an Ottawa conference organized by the World Wildlife Fund on the risks and opportunities for business in tackling the problem. If the world eliminated all greenhouse gas emissions tomorrow, O'Neil noted, it would take a century for the current atmospheric concentrations to be cut in half. That's one reason why he said he doesn't think waiting until 2050 makes any sense. cbc.ca

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