It's us against them in the politics of climate change, and there's damn few of us. Looks like the Group of Eight is ready to vote the vote the United States off the planet:
Tony Blair is contemplating an unprecedented rift with the US over climate change at the G8 summit next week, which will lead to a final communique agreed by seven countries with President George Bush left out on a limb.
The alternative is to face a "catastrophic failure" of his plan to get concerted action to combat global warming, which he has long said is the greatest threat the world faces.