Documents leaked to the media show that the Bush administration removed text from the draft paper for the G8+5 summit concerning the maximum allowable 2 degrees global warming and the intended global greenhouse gas emissions reduction by 50% below 1990 levels by 2050.

Literally, they called on him to “reverse course and strengthen the G8 declaration.” The Democrats write that there is growing support for a national cap on greenhouse gas emissions.

“We need an executive branch that engages the rest of the world to solve this problem rather than stubbornly ignoring it,” the chairmen wrote.

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Carbon Market Europe, 21 May 200