Of course they do. No surprises there. What was surprising, however, was that Howard, who presented the US's "let's not really do anything about global warming at all" as his own "balanced approach", has claimed "strong and unanimous support".
The definition of "strong and unanimous support" appears to be that the US, Canada and Singapore all cried "yay", while no one else said anything.
The fact that on one else said anything, I imagine, is far from a silent accepting agreement that the superior white folks know best. Rather I expect it was of a symptom of being sick and tired of arguing around in circles and repeatedly banging ones head against the stupidity of the Bush/Howard position.
As the UN Convention on Climate Change in Nairobi shows the rest of the world is quite happy to move things along in the face of continued US-Australia hostility.
Despite increasing isolation we're still pushing the "technology will save us" line. Technology most certainly has a role to play (and this is openly acknowledged by the Kyoto signatories), but without some serious and rather speedy changes in the way we think about the world and our place in it things are going to get hotter and hotter.
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