To help protect the environment, I no longer bathe.
Posted on 05/28/2007 11:16:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
BERLIN - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday she led a congressional delegation to Greenland, where lawmakers saw "firsthand evidence that climate change is a reality," and she hoped the Bush administration would consider a new path on the issue.
After meeting with German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel, Pelosi praised Berlin for its leadership on the issue.
Her trip comes ahead of next week's Group of Eight summit and a climate change meeting next month involving the leading industrialized nations and during a time of increased debate over what should succeed the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 international treaty that caps the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted from power plants and factories in industrialized countries. It expires in 2012.
President Bush rejected that accord, saying it would harm the U.S. economy and unfair excludes developing countries like China and India from its obligations. Pelosi, who strongly disagrees with that decision and many other of Bush's environmental policies, said Friday she said she wants to work with the administration rather than provoke it.
Pelosi said she hoped Bush would be open to considering a "different way" in the future.
The California Democrat pointed to her delegation's weekend stop in Greenland, "where we saw firsthand evidence that climate change is a reality; there is just no denying it."
"It wasn't caused by the people of Greenland — it was caused by the behavior of the rest of the world," she said.
Scientists have noticed that Greenland's output of ice into the North Atlantic had increased dramatically, doubling over the decade that ended in 2005.
"We hope that we can all assume our responsibilities with great respect and that our administration will be open to listening to why it is important to go forward perhaps in a different way than we have proceeded in the past," she told reporters.
Gabriel and Chancellor Angela Merkel have made the fight against global warming a key point of Germany's presidencies of the G-8 and European Union. Still, Merkel has said that progress at the June 6-8 summit in Heiligendamm is not assured.
According to comments on a document released by the environmental group Greenpeace, the Bush administration is preparing to reject new targets on climate change at the summit. The White House declined to confirm the comments were from U.S. officials.
"We regret very much that we must so far have the impression that it is difficult to reach concrete results with the American administration," Gabriel said after meeting Pelosi.
Gabriel said industrial nations must take joint responsibility for the global warming that has occurred thus far.
"For the climate change of the future ... we need readiness on the part of China, India and today's other developing countries to take responsibility themselves," he added. "We can and will only achieve that if industrial nations do justice to their responsibility."
Pelosi, who is to meet with Merkel on Tuesday, said she wanted to "salute Germany's leadership on this very important issue," and said she hoped for a diplomatic debate within the United States.
Gabriel welcomed increasing interest in climate change at state and city level in the U.S. and hailed Pelosi's decision to set up a select committee on energy and global warming.
"This shows that there is a great deal of movement in the United States, too, and we naturally hope that we will achieve progress in Heiligendamm," he said.
The G-8 meeting has already drawn protests from antiglobalization activists; 21 demonstrators were arrested Monday during unrest that broke out after a march in Hamburg.
Climate change? I live in New England...we call it the Seasons.
The photo of Pelosi with this story that is currently on Drudge is simply dreadful: she looks haggard, ill, and unhappy.
I would guess that Pelosi has discovered, like Rosie and Cindy Sheehan, that being a leftist kook is not good for your health.
She turned out to be a "whether" woman all right...Everything she says is based on "whether" they will vote for her or not.
To help protect the environment, I no longer bathe.
Yea hopefully the republicans will anti up a conservative small government ticket this time around rather than ‘vote for us or else’...
That way they might do better than they did in 06..
Of course, because the temperature is always changing. What I love is how they try to tie storms to heat rather than heat differential..
You are a nut case
Cuttnhorse nailed it.
She’s certainly not shy about publicly parading her abject stupidity for all to see.
She can see the climate change , I can see the age spots form
Absolutely, while we honor our fallen she honors the ice in Greenland.
The Socialist agenda has always blamed America for the world's ills and they envision the US riding mopeds and living in shacks with one light bulb in the 1 room. To see their vision of our future look no further than Viet Nam. If confronted with selling my V8 pick up because of global warming, I just say, "How will I pull my boat?", and they turn purple. They don't want you fishing, camping, pulling horse trailers, 4 wheelers, nothing, nada. My "foot print" is just too damn large. I don't want to burn more fuel, but I can't find an electric truck that pulls as good as my GMC.
There may be climate change, but we didn’t do it! Man
doesn’t have the power.
Yep. There is climate change. The Earth warms and it cools, and it has been constantly doing one or the other continuously since the beginning of time.
But Pelosi managed to "see" climate change with just one little trip. She is an amazing little P.O.S.
“After meeting with German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel, Pelosi praised Berlin for its leadership on the issue.”
Uh huh. Someone cue the change in German CO2 emissions since 2000 versus the US change in emissions.
Also, note that Germany is building new coal plants. Why? They dont trust imported Russian gas, and wont build nuclear.
So much for climate change ‘leadership’, they are typical liberals. All talk, blame America, and no action.
“The people in tropical countries will get screwed, however, because over there, more hot climate will mean more droughts and parched crops.”
Nope. The only way to get warming in the climate models is to theorize more moisture in the atmosphere, and the only way to model that is to have more precipitation. Overall, the earth is projected to get wetter, not drier. This is in the official IPCC report.
Also, crops will get the CO2 ‘fertilization effect’. CO2 is food for plants and at 500ppm they can be 15% or so more productive than at 380ppm. They can also be more drought resistant since the use of H2O in photosynthesis is reduced when Co2 levels are higher.
“We don’t live in a tropical climate. Those countries should deal with their problems on their own.”
obviously we will get hectored otherwise by eco-extremists. We need a solution. The solution for global warming:
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-to-solve-global-warming.html
Anybody else see Dennis Miller on The Tonight Show last week where he compared seeing Pelosi with the Speakers gavel with Chuck Heston waking up and seeing the gorilla on a horse!
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