Posted on 05/31/2007 12:31:24 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 05/31/2007 Pelosi: President’s Announcement Fails to Respond to the Severity of Global Warming Crisis
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on President Bush’s call for an agreement to establish a global target for reducing greenhouse emissions:
“Having returned this afternoon from a bipartisan fact-finding mission to Greenland and European capitals that focused on global warming, I have to say I am disappointed by the President’s announcement today. After years of inaction and denial, on the eve of the G-8 Summit, the President has finally acknowledged the severity of the global warming threat and agreed that we need a follow-up agreement to the Kyoto Protocol that he has spent most of his Administration studiously ignoring.
“But today’s announcement fails to respond to the severity of the crisis that most of the rest of the world has long since recognized. Instead of fresh thinking, the President today just rehashed the same stale proposals he has repeatedly put forward to the international community. Technology transfers and voluntary emissions targets are not enough to reverse global warming.
“Yes, we must develop innovative energy technologies and disseminate them as rapidly as possible to both developed and developing nations. But the President fails to recognize that innovative public policies – featuring mandatory, market-based strategies to achieve significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions – are also essential to achieving significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
“Far from being innovative, the President’s proposal duplicates activities already underway by the United Nations to build on the Kyoto Protocol and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The U.S.-sponsored meetings he proposes are likely to require considerable time and effort without advancing a new international agreement to address global warming.” Add to your del.icio.us del.icio.us Digg this story Digg this
“featuring mandatory, market-based strategies”
These two ideas cannot co-exist.
Why didn’t the witch stay in Syria? We didn’t want her back.
She immediately got on Air Force 3 and flew all over the globe, as expected.
CRISIS? She has been seeing too many movies.
How do you suppose that an extraterrestrial archaeologist 4000 years hence will be able to come up with scientific evidence...a smoking gun...that the climate change was homogenic?
Terrestrial scientists of today have yet to find proof of it.
Once again George bends over for Nancy and she shoves it up his butt.
He will never learn. These people cannot be satisfied Mr. Bush, stop trying and losing your base because of it.
Damn.-——— Maybe you are dumb.
It’s the new superstition. This will be right up there with leaches, wich burnings, and barn hexes.
peloopsi at it again
The money phrase. Translation: more taxes, carbon-credit trading schemes where people like Al Gore profit and everyone else pays and nothing is actually done to address the "problem" which doesn't exist anyway.
Sounds like Bush is on the GW bandwagon now. Shame.
Sounds like Bush is on the GW bandwagon now. Shame.
I agree..Bush wants oh so much to be liked by the Libs that he’s all pro immigration..He’s mocking out the conservatives for being anti-immigration bill. he might as well join the global warming crowd..i could care less what Bush says or thinks anymore. He stabbed me in the back.
They’ll find all kinds of records and possibly leftover tech like the insulators the EUdiots have draped over some of their Alpine Glaciers.
While there is little if any evidence that homoGENIC climate change is occuring, there is certainly every possibility that we might find a way to *influence* climate change in a misguided attempt to stave off “global warming” that winds up pushing a natural cycle too fast the other way (several expert and amateur climatologists have hinted that we are actually on the cusp of a cooling cycle; certainly most of the major cycles indicate that we are up for another ice age period).
Who are the Republican “go-alongs” who foolishly make Pelosi’s goofy junkets look “bi-partisan”?
Someone should take THEM to the woodshed, IMHO.
When will she ever stfu?
Somebody grab me a clue stick to hit her with. If it's mandatory then it's not market-based.
The only Global Warming Poolousy needs to be concerned with is the stinky moldy place in her expensive, tailored trousers.
That’s just Nance taking her daily orders from Move-on, Soros and the other leftist groups she sold her soul to to get in office. Geesh, gotta get sick of hearing the crap. Maybe it will go away by overkill!
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