From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

The last months of the Bush administration and global warming.

Hello again, I'm Arminolny, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

a daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

President Bush barely showed up for this week's UN session on global warming,

but he's conceded that human activities do contribute to climate change.

Today, the White House begins its own conference with 16 countries responsible for 90% of greenhouse gas emissions,

including China, India, Brazil, and South Africa,

along with the industrialized Western world. On to the point, will it undermine or complement

the United Nations? Is the international community taking it seriously? On reporters' notebook later

on in Los Angeles, another celebrity murder trial ends without a conviction.

First, here's the news.

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whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Hello again, Warminolny, back with To the Point. President Bush came late to the conclusion that industrial activity causes climate change,

but today he begins his own conference on global warming. On To the Point, is he trying to bolster the United Nations or circumvent it?

Does he still have time in his presidency to make a difference?

On reporter's notebook, O.J. Simpson, Robert Blake, now Phil Specter, Los Angeles celebrities,

charged with murder but not convicted. What does big money have to do with it? First, this news

update, contraband, including radioactive material, could easily be smuggled across the Canadian border.

That's according to the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of the Congress.

It reported today to the Senate Finance Committee.

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