Climate Change II

The Guardian:

The White House was forced into a U-turn on climate change yesterday after appearing to misjudge critically the international and domestic mood on its efforts to tackle global warming.

After American delegates walked out of the United Nations climate change conference in Montreal over the wording of a draft statement calling for international co-operation on the issue, they signed a revised version after making only 'trivial' changes.

The move came as 157 other countries agreed separately to extend the Kyoto international agreement aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The US has not joined Kyoto, so it was not involved in the talks on its future.

I have to do some more reading on this but it looks like this is seen as a big defeat for the Bush Administration. None of the American press articles I can find make it look this bad for us. Here is the most recent article on the conference on CNN's website. There is nothing about a U-Turn or "misjudging critically" in the CNN article.