G-8's Ultimatum To Nature: 50 percent Cuts Below Current Levels! Take it or leave it!

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Pledging to โ€œmove toward a low-carbon society,โ€ leaders of the worldโ€™s richest nations endorsed Tuesday the idea of cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, but from current levels rather than 1990โ€™s, as had beenย proposed.

And they refused to set a short-term target for reducing the gases that scientists agree are warming theย planet.

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