Bush climate action now? "Bogus": Schwarzenegger

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 7/13/08 | Deborah Zabarenko

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Sunday the Bush administration did not believe it should do anything about global warming and that any last-minute action before leaving office would be "bogus."

Schwarzenegger, a Republican whose state has pushed unsuccessfully for federal permission to limit greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, said on ABC's "This Week" that any move at this point against climate change would lack sincerity.

"If they would have done something this year, I would have thought it was bogus anyway," he said. "You don't really have an effect by doing something six months before you leave office ... it doesn't sound to me believable at all. The sincerity is not there."

The chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, Stephen Johnson, on Friday declined to take steps to regulate climate-warming emissions under existing pollution laws, more than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that his agency had the power to do just that.

Johnson said Congress should make rules to regulate these emissions and called for public comment, 15 months after the high court's ruling. Bipartisan critics said this stance virtually assures this administration will do nothing more to curb greenhouse gases.

Johnson's move, Schwarzenegger said, "really means basically this administration did not believe in global warming, or they did not believe that they should do anything about it since China is not doing anything about it and since India is not willing to do the same thing, so why should we do the same thing?"

Schwarzenegger said the United States should lead the fight against global warming, much as it did ... to put a person on the moon in the 1960s.

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California is ablaze this summer with record numbers of wildfires, which Schwarzenegger said could be partially due to global warming.

[DManA]

That just makes ME feel old, since it seem just like yesterday he looked like the left picture.

[Vaquero]

Climate action my @$$

DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW!!!!!!

[LooneyTick]

OK, he’s the Village Idiot, please refer to http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044917/posts and have him, shut the heck up.

[CHEE]

The Terminator wouldn’t know Bogus if he stepped in it.

[perchprism]

I agree with Arnold. Any action taken in the name of 'Global Warming' now, tomorrow, next year, whenever, is and will be bogus.

[steelyourfaith]

"Is that Arnold today...or is that photoshopped?
Do you know for sure?"

I can't vouch for the authenticity of the photos. Suffice it to say that I have stumbled upon similar photos throughout the web. To wit:

"How old is he now?"

Arnold is scheduled to turn 61 on 7/30.

[RochesterFan]

When Ahnuld quits his daily commute by private jet and downsizes his mansion, then I'll listen to his ideas on energy and conservation. He has fallen for that idiotic 'carbon credits' idea too.

So while his jet pollutes and guzzles fuel, he opposes drilling, building refineries and nuclear plants and has the unmitigated gall to chastise the Bush admin from his "glass house."

I despise these liberal jerks who think we all need to sit in the cold and dark while they live their jet set lifestyle. As Flo on "Alice' used to say, "Kiss my grits!"