Dubya on Global Warming, Definitely a "C" Student

[JoseCuervo]

Looks like ol' Dubya is doing a bit of flip-flopping...

More C's for Bush: carbon dioxide and campaigning
An article in today's New York Times emphasizes the administration's latest flip-flop on global warming. A report delivered to Congress yesterday established carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions as the only likely cause of global warming over the last three decades. The report may represent the latest u-turn in the President's climate change policy.

During his first presidential campaign, Bush proposed phased-in caps on a number of power plant emissions, including carbon dioxide. In February 2001, Bush ignored then-Secretary of Treasury Paul O'Neill's recommendation that the President acknowledge the link between greenhouse gases and climate change. Later that month, then-EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman claimed on CNN that the President was "very clear that the science is good on global warming" and the link with carbon dioxide emissions. In March 2001, under pressure from energy groups, the administration released a letter retracting the campaign proposal on the grounds that CO2 is not defined as a "pollutant" in the Clean Air Act.

Since then, the administration has been consistent in repudiating CO2 as a cause of climate change, going so far as to alter a June 2003 draft of EPA's Report on the Environment. The White House's changes were so drastic that the EPA removed the climate change section from the report rather than present what its staff believed to be a gross misrepresentation of the research.

One thing is clear: no matter what Bush promises to do about global warming, we know he is more than willing to break any promise when it comes to helping out his polluting special interest friends.

 

[ELKCHSR]

Who cares what it is, I don't even think I will bother reading this mindless diatribe....

Are you hoping to get some one to jump on so that you can bully them around?

Get real gunner....

No one is holding much of what you say with any credence since you can't answer questions on statements you make but require every one else to....

Hold yourself to the same standards you require of every one else, or just move to the way side...

How did I stab Moosie in the back...