2005July7: US President Bush and Australian PM Howard argue that the cost of mitigating global warming via the Kyoto protocol is too high. They point to economic and political reasons (Wikipedia. 2007).
Reference: Wikipedia. Retrieved 2007June. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
Image Description: Prime Minister John Howard of Australia and President George Bush during their joint press conference in the East Room on May 16, 2006. White House photo was taken by Paul Morse. Image Location: White House. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/05/images/20060516-1_p051606pm-0312jpg-515h.html Image Permission: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.
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