Bush Unveils Strategy On Global Warming

President Urges Voluntary Cuts Of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

(CBS/AP) 
Despite U.S. opposition to her plan, Merkel welcomed Mr. Bush's idea, saying it provided "common ground" for getting a new international agreement on global warming.

Blair, traveling in South Africa, said Mr. Bush's announcement shows that the United States is accepting global warming as a "real problem" and is prepared to be part of a global deal on reduction of emissions.

Mr. Bush is proposing that the United States and about a dozen other nations hold a series of meetings to set long-term goals by the end of next year for reducing greenhouse gases. The final list of nations has not yet been decided, but other participants would likely include India, China, Brazil, Russia, Canada, Japan, Australia, South Korea and the European Union.

He envisions that each country will set goals on how they want to improve energy security, reduce air pollution and cut greenhouse gases in the next 10 to 20 years. Leaders from power generation, alternative fuels and transportation industries would form working groups to share clean-energy technology.

"We will create a strong and transparent system for measuring each country's performance," Mr. Bush said. "The way to meet this challenge of energy and global climate change is through technology, and the United States is in the lead."

Separately, the Bush-appointed head of the U.S. space program said Thursday that he was not sure global warming was a problem and that it was "a rather arrogant position" to say the world's climate should not change.

"I am not sure that it is fair to say that is a problem we must wrestle with," NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said on National Public Radio.

While the United States signed a 1992 global agreement on climate talks, it did not ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol limiting emissions; the treaty was never submitted to the Senate by President Bill Clinton. Mr. Bush argued that Kyoto would harm the U.S. economy, unfairly excluded fast-growing nations like India and China and said nothing about cutting emissions after the treaty expires in 2012.

The White House argues that Mr. Bush's proposal does not ignore, but complements ongoing multinational efforts to address the problem.

More than 1,000 diplomats have begun working on a new accord to succeed Kyoto. The ideas will be put before a larger meeting of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in December in Bali, Indonesia, when U.N. officials hope to launch formal talks on a post-Kyoto treaty.

In a voluntary program called the Asia-Pacific Partnership, Mr. Bush is also is working with Australia, China, India, Japan and South Korea, producers of half the world's greenhouse gases, to attract private money for cleaner energy technologies.

[realpatriot1]

The strategy is to say the right things, potpone the issue until after the G-8 Summit and then evade action.

Maybe he'll commission another study of the problem.

[micma-2009]

The National Academy of Sciences surveyed every published, peer reviewed, scientific study done in the last ten years on global warming.

Without exception, they all agree on three fundamental facts:


1) GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL

2) GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSED BY MAN

3) THE CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL WARMING WILL BE CATASTROPHIC


The SCIENTIFIC debate ended long ago.


The POLITICAL debate rages on because a few very powerful fossil-fuels companies (Exxon-Mobile) are spending millions on a dis-information campaign.


The time for lying, denying, and spin is over.


It's time we take action to protect our and our childrens futures.

[pakaal]

"Bush was trying to head off critics of his policy on global warming by announcing he%u2019s ready to work with the rest of the world"

It's funny how things get such different treatment depending on who's writing the story. The rest of the world (in agreement on human-created climate change, btw) tells the facts; Bush offers nothing but feel-good 'goals' devoid of penalties for not reaching said goals, carbon credit trading so we can carry on being the number one pollution emitter, and that even these small steps will only take effect 4 years after Bush steps down.

This reminds me a lot of the "compromise" we saw between Bush and Congress. Essentially meaningless and no compromise at all. But we've come to expect meaningless rhetoric from this administration, so, nothing new there.

[co2max]

CO2Max is a paid hack from Hacks-are-Us. He's got several monikers and a special email acount where he gets messages alerting him to post on the issues he's paid to post on. You know they are in trouble when they have to resort to paying hacks to spread their lies.
Posted by micma at 12:50 PM : Jun 01, 2007
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If only what you say here were true. As a student of geology, I could sure use the money.
You make me laugh. It even serves to confirm that I make sense.
Thank you.

[micma-2009]

The National Academy of Sciences surveyed every published, peer reviewed, scientific study done in the last ten years on global warming.

Without exception, they all agree on three fundamental facts:


1) GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL

2) GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSED BY MAN

3) THE CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL WARMING WILL BE CATASTROPHIC


The SCIENTIFIC debate ended long ago.


The POLITICAL debate rages on because a few very powerful fossil-fuels companies (Exxon-Mobile) are spending millions on a dis-information campaign.


The time for lying, denying, and spin is over.


It's time we take action to protect our and our childrens futures.






CO2Max is a paid hack from Hacks-are-Us. He's got several monikers and a special email acount where he gets messages alerting him to post on the issues he's paid to post on. You know they are in trouble when they have to resort to paying hacks to spread their lies.

[co2max]

Yup,
What I posted earlier today about Global Warming causing Brain Damage definitely applies here. I thought it was just speculation, but now we have supporting evidence to the claim.

[micma-2009]

The National Academy of Sciences surveyed every published, peer reviewed, scientific study done in the last ten years on global warming.

Without exception, they all agree on three fundamental facts:


1) GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL

2) GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSED BY MAN

3) THE CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL WARMING WILL BE CATASTROPHIC


The SCIENTIFIC debate ended long ago.


The POLITICAL debate rages on because a few very powerful fossil-fuels companies (Exxon-Mobile) are spending millions on a dis-information campaign.


The time for lying, denying, and spin is over.


It's time we take action to protect our and our childrens futures.

[co2max]

Oh, You're one of those who repeatedly posted dwibbling proclamations. This is like arguing with a radio.

Carry on . ..

[micma-2009]

Every published, peer reviewed, scientific study done in the last ten years on global warming agrees on three facts:


1) GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL

2) GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSED BY MAN

3) THE CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL WARMING WILL BE CATASTROPHIC


The SCIENTIFIC debate ended long ago.


The POLITICAL debate rages on because a few very powerful fossil-fuels companies (Exxon-Mobile) are spending millions on a dis-information campaign.


The time for lying, denying, and spin is over.


It's time we take action to protect our and our childrens futures.

[co2max]

The SCIENTIFIC debate ended long ago.
The POLITICAL debate rages on because a few very powerful fossil-fuels companies (Exxon-Mobile) are spending millions on a dis-information campaign.
The time for lying, denying, and spin is over.
It's time we take action to protect our and our childrens futures.
Posted by micma at 11:51 AM : Jun 01, 2007
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You, micma, are hopelessly confused.
This is a great deal of debate. Practically no one contests the reality of global warming. But the claim that humans are causing it is outrageous. How in the world did the presence of humans cause all the natural factors of climate change to come to an abrupt stop? Well, it didn't. Natural causes of climate change carry on while we made a minor contribution to it that is hardly even worth talking about. We should focus on true pollution issues, not the control meaningless control of vital trace gases in the atmosphere.
I'm still waiting to hear what the CATASTROPHIC consequences of global warming are going to be (besides, the nonsensical propaganda claims). Catastrophy comes to those who fail to prepare or to adapt to change. They're doomed no matter what happens anyway.
And stop it with that crying drone of: "our children's futures." Most likely your children are doomed because of your muddle-headedness.

[micma-2009]

Every published, peer reviewed, scintific study done in the last ten years agrees on three facts:

1) GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL

2) GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSED BY MAN

3) THE CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL WARMING WILL BE CATASTROPHIC

The SCIENTIFIC debate ended long ago.

The POLITICAL debate rages on because a few very powerful fossil-fuels companies (Exxon-Mobile) are spending millions on a dis-information campaign.

The time for lying, denying, and spin is over.

It's time we take action to protect our and our childrens futures.

[pepperp1]

The biggest threat to this country from Global Warming is ignorance and paid propagandist, the States in which elected officials continue this false discussion of global warming being real are highly irresponsible and placing their communities at risk by not dealing with the looming water issues and preparing for an adequate disaster response infrastructures. And for those paid politicians that refuse to do the hard proactive work to prepare their communities and are relying instead on the bail out, of good will and no bid contracts for recovery with a shift of tax revenues to their State, should probably not plan on that either. Remember people who are dead do not vote, do not buy gas and oil, and do not tithe, and you have no goodwill in the bank either.

[jimfinster]

You people just won't like anything he does, even if he were to inhale all the excess CO2 in the atmosphere into his lungs, then bury himself in a subduction zone in the West Pacific.
Posted by CO2Max at 08:40 AM : Jun 01, 2007

Wrong, I would like that very much :)

[micma-2009]

The Bush administration has done everything within it's power to ignore, deny, and sensor the science on global warming.

They have dragged their feet and erected barriers to change in public policy on global warming.

This is nothing more than a public relations ploy.

On this and all other important issues like Iraq and stem cell research Bush is all about "staying the course"....the wrong course.

[jerr11]

"Bush Unveils Strategy On Global Warming"


Sure!

And today Dr. Kervokian is unveiling his strategy on the sanctity of life!

[co2max]

To the contrary, I begin to believe that the biggest threat posed by Global Warming is its potential to cause Brain Damage. Just look at the nonsense that is published out there claiming that humans are causing it, competely outside natural influences. If people really believe that Cripe, it sure seems to represent some sort of environmentally induced pathogenic mind disorder.

[omega39-2009]

For six years we have endured Orwellian speak such as "clear skies initiative", we have seen lobbyists from industry promoted to run agencies tasked with overseeing that very industry. We have heard from the governments very own scientists and whistle blowers that studies have been watered down or shelved, we have seen states sue the EPA and the Supreme court chastise them for not doing their job. It should not surprise anyone if we doubt that Bush had an overnight epiphany.

[abbe7]

Aliens cause global warming ... a "must read"

http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/speeches_quote04.html

[abbe7]

Looks like these days GW is more and more associated with stupidity, whatever is behind these two letters .

[co2max]

First, Bush is heavily criticized for a perceived non-position on the issue. Then as soon as he does take a position and agree that some sort of action is needed, he is equally criticized and distrusted for his motives.

You people just won't like anything he does, even if he were to inhale all the excess CO2 in the atmosphere into his lungs, then bury himself in a subduction zone in the West Pacific.

This is just a case of everyone loving to complain, but unwilling to take action.