Britain & Germany demand UN framework for 'global warming'

Sounds like the perfect opportunity to give them the same prescription for long life and good health that Dick Cheney gave to Loony Leahy.

Britain and Germany yesterday joined forces to warn President George Bush that talks on climate change must take place within a United Nations framework and not in an ad hoc process floated last week by Bush.

As violent protesters clashed with police in Rostock ahead of next week's G8 summit in Germany, Washington was warned that Britain and Europe will not tolerate a separate process.

Cool. Your endless warnings to Iran were so productive, the partner you absolutely must have to finance this mishegas is already shaking in fear.

'For me, that is non-negotiable,' the German Chancellor Angela Merkel said of the need to ensure that climate change negotiations take place within the existing UN framework.

You go, girl.

Merkel underlined deep European unease with the President when she told Der Spiegel: 'In a process led by the United Nations, we must create a successor to the Kyoto agreement which ends in 2012. But it is important that they flow from the United Nations.'

I have a better idea: How about asking demanding that the UN move from NYC to Nuremberg? Zeppelin Stadium would make for the ideal headquarters. Delegates can retire to the Hofbräuhaus for refreshments after a long day of doing nothing.