[Peach]

He might have been a little busy with something called 9/11.

[TomServo]

Put on a tinfoil hat in class. That should get some laughs.

[AdamSelene235]

Access to Energy Newsletter

[Spiff]

Bush is a busy man. The silly environmentalist conference spouting junk science about idiotic subjects like global warming and the mythical ozone hole is certainly not a priority. That, and it was held in South Africa one of the most racist, Marzists nations you can find on the planet. Bush was right not to go. In fact, he shouldn't have even sent Powell.

[Leroy S. Mort]

Sounds like he missed a hell of a party.

Lobsters, caviar and brandy for MPs at summit on starvation

[boris]

Tell her that "Environmental Science" is an oxymoron.

Also take a look at The Greening Earth Society and in particular the World Climate Report Online.

Ask her to prove:

1. That the "ozone hole" is a recent phenomenon.
2. That the "ozone hole" is a result of human activity.
3. That the "ozone hole" harms anyone but penguins.

Ask her why Dr. Dobson--inventor of the instrument that measures ozone levels--obtained some of the lowest ozone readings in ~1958, well BEFORE appreciable amounts of CFCs could have entered the stratosphere.

As to "global warming":

From 1/3 to 2/3 of the "observed" warming has been shown to be attributable to slow increase of the so-called "Solar Constant" (which is not constant at all).

Ask why Triton, Neptune's moon, which is 1.7 billion miles from the Sun, has experienced a 10-degree "warming" over the last decade or so? Is it all that Tritonian smog?

Reference: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1998/jul15/triton.html

--Boris

[So Cal Rocket]

IIRC... Dean, Gephardt, Kerry, Edwards, Mosely-Braun, Lieberman, Kucinich, Sharpton, Graham, Clinton, Gore, and Clark didn't attend, either.

[IronJack]

These are things you should consider when you vote."

Absolutely! I would consider them strongly. And then I'd vote for Bush BECAUSE he shunned that leftist circle-jerk and tended to more important business.

[freeeee]

Change majors, fast. You're going to end up waiting tables with that degree.

Even not going to school would be a better choice - no student loans to pay back later

I know because I have one of those worthless degress.

[Billthedrill]

Colin Powell is the Secretary of State of the United States of America. Sending that caliber of individual to such a useless endeavor is an honor, not a slight.

[MissAmericanPie]

Post #4 has all the ammo you need to execute a great slap down.

[Scannall]

Johannesburg Summit didn't rate Colin Powell going. A mid-level State Department weenie would have been plenty. All it was was a 'Hate America' festival and group pickpocket event.

[boris]

One more interesting thing:

Access to Energy is an excellent resource. If you can find back issues (the ones edited by the late Dr. Petr Beckmann) you will find a treasure trove of brilliant material that ought to drive her nutz.

Also I recommend reading Ayn Rand's excellent book: The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution. Written in the 1970's, every word rings true today--and punches a neat hole in the sternum of eco-maniacs.

--Boris

[TomServo]

If you know her email address, sign her up for the Junk Science Email List for fun. Buy her a years subscription to the Limbaugh Letter. I did that to a lefty once. They said they'd do nothing but throw them away. I told her that that was fine, and asked them if they realized how many Republican mailing lists they were gonna be on.

You gotta have some fun with these people.

[Porterville]

Spray him/her in the eyes with mace... they hate that.

[hilaryrhymeswithrich]

It is also interesting to note that the President chose to send, to Afica, the highest ranking African American. Seems to me to be a sign of respect.....

[Uncle Miltie]

"President Bush didn't attend the Johannesburg Summit [on global environmental issues] and sent Colin Powell instead. These are things you should consider when you vote."

I do consider these things, and will vote for Bush on that basis. He has more important things to do than drive the economy into the ground based on shoddy "science."

I will also fight for school choice so I'm not forced to be subjected to irrational diatribes by people like you, ma'am.

[Argus]

He sends Colin Powell and all they do is bitch. He should've sent James Watt.

[paul51]

If she drives an SUV, firebomb it.

[kidd]

source: http://www.cei.org/gencon/027,03154.cfm

The Honorable George W. Bush
President of the Untied States
The White House
Washington, D. C.
Via fax

Dear President Bush,

We write to thank you and express our support for the positions you have taken on the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. We applaud your decision not to attend the summit in person. Although so-called environmental groups may in the next few weeks pressure you to attend, we believe there are good reasons not to give in to this pressure. Even more than the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, the Johannesburg Summit will provide a global media stage for many of the most irresponsible and destructive elements involved in critical international economic and environmental issues. Your presence would only help to publicize and make more credible their various anti-freedom, anti-people, anti-globalization, and anti-Western agendas.

We support your insistence, conveyed in the preparatory discussions leading up to the summit by Undersecretary Dobriansky, that one of the key conditions for sustainable development is good national governance. The sad fact is that many of the poorest “developing” nations are not developing at all. Their people are mired in poverty and environmental degradation largely because of oppressive and incompetent government. The World Summit may be considered successful if it follows your lead and proposes ways to encourage building government institutions based on the rule of law and that respect people’s civil rights, including the right to property. In this regard, your proposal to base new foreign aid on the recipient nation’s progress in improving its own governance is most welcome, and we hope it will be adopted by other donor nations. Most foreign aid over the past five decades has been wasted by incompetent and corrupt governments, and much of it has been counter-productive because it has been used to prop up brutal, rapacious regimes.

We also strongly support your opposition to signing new international environmental treaties or creating new international environmental organizations at the Johannesburg Summit. In our view, the worst possible outcome at Johannesburg would be taking any steps towards creating a World Environmental Organization, as the European Union has suggested. As Undersecretary Dobriansky and Assistant Secretary Turner have argued, signing more treaties and creating more international bureaucracies does not address the shortcomings of existing treaties and organizations.

World Bank studies have concluded that there is a direct correlation between national prosperity and environmental quality and that environmental conditions improve rapidly as poor nations become wealthier. What will therefore create the conditions necessary for sustainable development is implementing policies that lead to economic growth. This is not what entrenched international environmental interests want to hear, and so we congratulate you for your courage in making the case for global economic growth.

Of the specific environmental issues on the Johannesburg agenda, you have correctly identified the lack of clean drinking water as the greatest environmental obstacle for hundreds of millions of people around the world to achieving sustainable development. Any progress that can be made on addressing this critical issue at the summit will be most welcome. Conversely, the least important global environmental issue is potential global warming, and we hope that your negotiators at Johannesburg can keep it off the table and out of the spotlight.

We understand that there will be determined opposition at Johannesburg from the international status quo to adopting the enlightened and progressive policies you have proposed. We want you to know that you can count on our support for the determined efforts you and your administration are making to change direction on these critical global issues.

Sincerely,

Fred L. Smith, Jr.
and Myron Ebell
Competitive Enterprise Institute

(and many other signatories)