White House Shifts Its Focus on Climate (says greenhouse gases explain global warming)

NY Times ^ | August 26, 2004 | ANDREW C. REVKIN

[neverdem]

At least they changed their minds during the coolest summer in recent memory. BTW, satellites have measured a noticable increase in the radiant energy from the sun since the late 1970s, along with an increase in sunspots observed from earth.

[neverdem]

ping

[FairOpinion]

They have to get rid of all those Clinton holdovers who sneak things into reports, and they need to get some better proofreaders, who catch that stuff.

[rmmcdaniell]

Bush has decided to pander for the ELF vote. Watchout Mr. Nader, you've got some competition now!

[savedbygrace]

I thought the sun was the cause.

[PianoMan]

While this may be true, I'll have to see it somewhere other than the NY Times before I believe it. They've pulled slight of hand garbage like this before.

[RasterMaster]

Get rid of the DNC shrillers and cure the emmissions of noxious gasses by 90%.

[Brimack34]

2ND coldest August in history of MN.

[endthematrix]

Does this have any bearing on the Clinton/McCain Norway globo-warming love-fest? Hmmmm....

[Shermy]

Bush has decided to pander for the ELF vote.

Or the energy companies heavily invested in natural gas.

[L`enn]

Same here, August here was was September is supposed to be like. Moderate daytime temps, very chilly evenings. Now that I am older I liked it. If I was under thirty I would have felt cheated.
But, the ELFers blame unseasonable cool stretches on Global warming also. Strange, illogical, but that never stopped a lib before.

[gooddeal]

When the winter is hot, or the summer is cold, they keep thinking it is the global warming thing. Now they are calling it CLIMATE CHANGE, meaning any change in the weather is caused by us bad people. Of course, the climate will change even if all the human died out, but then the activists if they are still around will have to invent a new bad guys?

[savedbygrace]

There was some study released in the past few weeks that concluded that so-called global warming was caused by increased intensity of the sun, or some such. Not human activities. There are threads on FR about this.

[Brimack34]

Weather is #1 here in MN. Millions of dollars are spent on it. And as always they are totally wrong on it this week.

[Moonman62]

2ND coldest August in history of MN.

Global cooling is caused by global warming, and if temperatures remain the same, that's caused by global warming, too. Global warming is caused strictly by CO2, which is exclusively produced by Republicans. Get the picture?

[Finalapproach29er]

Mars is getting warmer,too. Who's responsible for that?

Solar radiation,perhaps?

[familyop]

I wonder how many people will be stupid enough to read the dishonest headline and not bother reading the rest of the column?

The "White House" did no such shift. The Cabinet is mixed, but who is listening to the Democrats/liberaltarians/independents in it?

[familyop]

"In such conditions, it said, plots of shortgrass prairie in northeastern Colorado contained less of the nutrient nitrogen, and their grasses were less digestible than those that grew with no extra carbon dioxide."

And that's because most of the lazy, come-lately idiots in agriculture here refuse to get off their butts, and instead, attribute ugly pasture to "overgrazing" (thereby parrotting the greenies' propaganda). They should add nitrogen (and other things) to the soil, as ranchers/farmers always have.

[RockinRight]

Finally today and the rest of this week are expected to be in the upper 80s to near 90, and its the last week of August!