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Presents the author's views on how American environmental policy and the media hype surrounding the forthcoming Group of 8 (G8) summit meeting in Scotland. Suggestion that British Prime Minster Tony Blair and British media have convinced themselves that the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is under critical pressure to change U.S. policy on global warming but that this is in reality not true; Review of the work of Bush's secretary for the environment Christine Whitman; Suggestion that Whitman was let go for taking into consideration new evidence regarding global warming.