Posted on 08/09/2006 9:55:59 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
British Prime Minister Tony Blair and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger met with more than a dozen top business officials to discuss climate change -- executives who have gathered in support of mandatory limits on greenhouse-gas emissions. Imagine that: Big Business stepping up to the plate, but the Bush administration refusing to take a seat at the table.
That's a conspicuous absence for a president who says that climate change "is a challenge that requires a 100-percent effort; ours and the rest of the world's." But it's not surprising for a president whose preferred policy is to rewrite science to protect oil-company profits at the expense of the general public.
Washington's climate policy is as real as its claim of "mission accomplished" in Iraq. But it is also the story of both major political parties at their worst -- ducking difficult choices, giving in to big donors, postponing reckoning until the day after tomorrow. If you offend no one, you change nothing. The world is changing, and now the reckoning is real.
Within the next decade, if we don't take meaningful action to address global warming, our children and grandchildren will deal with global catastrophe.
It's time to put Washington to the test. No more bite-sized ideas that tinker at the edges of outdated policy. It's time to put global-climate change at the top of the national agenda.
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Hey Johnny boy. Why did Bill Clinton not even bother to send Kyoto treaty up to the US Senate?
The Unserious Party strikes again. We're fighting a world war against Islamofascism, and the Democrats (and a few RINOs) think global warming is the problem they should be addressing.
We can change the climate?
If we can, then we are proposing something we haven't been able to accomplish so far.
Ve haf become as Gods! Ve control the climate. All your weather is belong to us.
The Left thinks we can't fight a two front war so they slip in their socialist agenda hoping it will pass unchecked.
Amazing. Their heads are so far up their own butts they can taste their own hair gel.
"John Kerry, Al Gore and the Gubinator agree"
Big Government, bad science, high taxes and bad laws are good for you.
Keep the tradition alive.
[sarcasm] All those California state regulations have helped them alot [/sarcasm]
It seems the Senate did that a few years back. What was JFK's vote on the Kyoto Resolution?
I'd guess that the wars, oil well burnings, volcanoes, destruction of vegetation due to hurricanes, etc., of the past few years would easily dwarf anything the environentalists could do to affect global climate.
Climate change is a serious issue.
We need to something RIGHT NOW to reverse the cooling trend in the Atlantic or we will never have another Katrina. All good Americans should travel to the East Coast and return at least one gallon of boiling water to the ocean. Do your duty, America. Global Warming is to big of an issue to lose now.
To all fellow Californians involved in the GOP. Do not donate money to these guy's (lunitic kook fringe). You may not even be able to mow your lawn or BBQ a hamburger for your family if these Wackos get their way. Then you may have to stop breathing due to exessive CO2 your discharging. This is serious stuff your way of life is at crossroad right now.
To all fellow Californians involved in the GOP. Do not donate money to these guy's (lunitic kook fringe). You may not even be able to mow your lawn or BBQ a hamburger for your family if these Wackos get their way. Then you may have to stop breathing due to exessive CO2 your discharging. This is serious stuff your way of life is at crossroad right now.
Another ***Arnold's A Big Disappointment*** ping
The rhetoric has moved beyond that. Now they claim that eating meat is killing the planet. "We" raise cattle. Cattle emit gas. There is expenditure raising produce to feed these animals. If we just aborted animals altogether, the planet wouldn't be dying.
ABC NEWS, yesterday: "Aug. 8, 2006 -- Government hurricane forecasters said there would likely be fewer storms this year than they had originally predicted in May. . ."
Meat-Eaters Aiding Global Warming? New Research Suggests What You Eat as Important as What You Drive (ABC News - April 19, 2006)
In terms of energy required for harvesting and processing, fish and red meat ended up in a "virtual tie," but that's just in terms of energy consumed. When you toss in all those other factors, such as bovine flatulence and gas released by manure, red meat comes in dead last.
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