As a rule, Tony Blair could be relied on staying within the bound of reasonableness when push came to shove in controversies surrounding global warming. He has argued, for instance, that that the problem of global warming cannot be dealt with unless agreements such as Kyoto Treaty include India and China which are exempted from its current draft. He has also defended the utilization of nuclear energy. It looks, however, that the winds may be changing now. In his foreword to a book summarizing research on global warming released yesterday, the Prime Minister claims that the emission of greenhouse gases was causing global warming at a rate that is 'unsustainable.' He then continues: It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialisation and economic growth from a world population that has increased six—fold in 200 years, is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable. These words echo ominously those of radical environmental activists...(Read Full Post)