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Bush softens stance on climate change

3 October 2007

AFTER years of denial over global warming, President George W. Bush now seems willing to tackle the issue – in words, at least. And he has army backing: “Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on Earth,” said General Gordon Sullivan, former chief of staff of the US army in written testimony to Congress on 27 September.

The next day, Bush hosted a summit of representatives from leading greenhouse gas emitting nations at which he called for curbing emissions to be made a long-term goal. He repeated his…

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