The al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has condemned the US and other industrial economies, holding them responsible for the phenomenon of climate change.<br/><br/> In an audio tape, broadcast on Al Jazeera, bin Laden criticised the former US president George Bush for rejecting the Kyoto pact and condemned global corporations. In the message he also urged a boycott of the US dollar to end, what he called, slavery.<br/><br/>The tape follows one released earlier this week in which the al-Qaeda leader praised a Nigerian man accused of a failed attempt to blow up an airliner heading for Detroit on Christmas Day.