They even planted trees. Get it? It's environmental.

G-8 Approves Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Unlike earlier, they found themselves able to announce this without being seen idling in the diesel tractor trailer of a logging company while staffers poured extra crude oil and gasoline into a nearby sewer. In the statement they all vow to cut emissions by 50% by 2025. Which is a surprise since they all balked at this same proposal last year at Germany's G8 summit. They hope to tie it into the new UN treaty for 2009.

The G8 also expect China, India, and other developing countries to join in. China was unavailable for comment as it snorted green tea through it's nose from laughing too hard. The plan was immediately criticized for being a little too vague and ambiguous, as well as being weak. They say the goal should be to cut emissions, not just emissions growth. And these dirty, stinking, hippie scientists are right.

But as Bush is almost out of office, thankfully for the environment's sake, it might be better to let someone who takes the problem a little more seriously decide what cuts the US has to make, whether it be a President Obama with his Vice-Environmental Overlord Al Gore or *shudder* John McCain and whatever coal mine owner he gets to run environmental policy. Frankly the less we're tied into the Bush Administration's "solutions" the better we are.