Bush in U-turn on global warming

FT.com ^ | 6/1/07 | Financial Times

[Mark Felton]

George W. Bush on Thursday unveiled a striking about-face on global warming, calling on the world’s leading economies to join the US in agreeing a global target to reduce carbon dioxide emissions before the end of his term in office.

The US president was speaking just ahead of a G8 summit at which climate change was expected to be high on the agenda of European governments. He explained that his apparent conversion – which follows almost seven years of having rejected precisely the road he outlined – was prompted by new scientific findings.

[gathersnomoss]

You have nailed it.

[TomGuy]

yeh yeh yeh

Vote R

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Take a look. The R’s had the House for over a decade, the Senate for half a decade, and the White House for 6 years. And look at the mess they made.

Voting in more R’s to continue the mess is not the solution.

You don’t vote for the same and hope to get a different result. It ain’t gonna happen.

[Mark Felton]

right. This is Bush’s super secret plan to advance conservatism.

Remember when that nonsense was being spewed here on FR several years ago???

We must vote Bush even though he is talking like a leftists; we must vote bush even though he increased fed spending far more than Clinton; we must vote Bush because he ha a super duper secret plan that he cant make public or it will not work....

chumps

[iopscusa]

Everytime I see some bitter poster of this crap, “Whose fault is this nobody but the ones who sat home on election day”, I just want to throw-up...give it a break...blame belong’s to the RINO’s and other Bush mistakes as much as anything else.

[Mark Felton]

“You don’t vote for the same and hope to get a different result.”

LOL This is the party of Charlie Brown.

[Kozak]

So President Bush is calling this new “Global warming” Summit that will include China and India. Of course, China and India won’t agree to the carbon limits on them...scuttling the deal and making them the obvious bad guys of the Left (except, the Left loves them).

And I'll bet you at the summit WE agree to real curbs on carbon emissions at huge cost, while China and India get to play a never never game of EVENTUAL bogus carbon curbs.

We must "lead" in this you know./sarc

[Tribune7]

A recent BBC documentary said global warming was something cooked up by Maggie Thatcher to get the U.K. to go nuke.

Maybe Dubya is thinking along those lines.

Hopefully, that's what it is.

Global warming can be used to advance the conservative agenda. We've been too dumb to take advantage of it.

We should throw it at the no-nuke people. We should throw it at the greenie-loons who want to rip down the Klamath dams. We should throw it at the lawyers and bureaucrats who insist on applying OSHA regs to the home offices of telecommunters.

We should throw at the fools who don't want us to drill in ANWR -- that's a stretch but so what. I bet fewer greenhouse gases will be produced by ANWR drilling than drilling off the Chinese coast and in the Niger delta, which would not be covered by Kyoto.

How about this one: Davis-Bacon must be suspended to maximize resources for eliminating traffic bottlenecks. The world is at stake. LOLOLOL.

[Guenevere]

With all my heart, I wish this was true.....

...but I don't believe him anymore..

[tioga]

Bush just found another segment of his base he hasn’t turned on yet.

[newcthem]

I had a call from the RNC requesting donations, I responded that I would be happy to, provided I could get a photo of GWB, perferably with his head up Teddy Kennedy’s butt...........the woman apparently didn’t see any humor in my request.

[rollo tomasi]

Bush, always a poker player never a leader.

America does not need politicians, it needs leaders who hammer their convictions down the oppositions throat.

And by leaders I mean those who understand the threats and the destruction that government brings. Government must be limited, end of story.

Freedom and personal responsibility are the enemy of politicians. Sorry, Bush is just a sad politician that loves using other people’s money to advance his “compassion”.

[bw17]

Diplomacy is the ability to tell someone to go to Hell in such a way that they actually look forward to the trip.

You have “misunderestimated” this President once again.

[carola]

Maybe this is a payback to Tony Blair.

[Tribune7]

And the West Coast ports! The West Coast ports must be modernized and made more efficient so ships won’t stack up in the harbor and CO2 emissions will be cut. LOLOLOLOLOL

[ZULU]

The Bush Family Values came out after 2004.

He doesn’t need us peons anymore.

[ChildOfThe60s]

After this deal is torpedoed by China and India, the Left won’t voice the level of criticisms against those two countries that it has been aiming at American Conservatives.

This will expose the Left’s hypocrisy.

Don't bet that Bush won't come away with a unilateral promise to curb CO2 as proof, somehow, that we are morally superior to them.

Expose the left's hypocricy? What a laugh. That happens daily. Who cares and what good has it done? It hasn't embarrassed the left and nearly no one in the press even covers it.

[Pit1]

The Republicans in Congress were acting like a bunch of wimps for the years they had control. It's not my fault that they were kicked out. Just look at the money they spent.

Like fools. They got just what they ask for. I say clean the whole rotten nest out and start fresh.

[Steve_Seattle]

According to a recent article by former GW alarmist now turned skeptic, the recent science has been moving in the OTHER direction, i.e., against the GW hypothesis as usually presented.

[Steve_Seattle]

uberparty

It seems that we are headed in the direction of Europe, where the elites do what they want and the public-be-damned, and you need a microscope to detect the differences between the major parties.

[newguy357]

You voted out the people who thought like you did and lost the congress. if this is not what we all wanted we should have told people to go out and vote rep instead of staying home.

Excuse me. This president is a republican. We DID vote R. We wasted our time and dollars advocating for this pathetic president and he has turned on us over and over and over again. We have seen what republicans are worth. Don't tell me this BS that a few more republican congressmen would make things better. He was a big government socialist even when he had a majority of congress. Don't you remember McCain-Feingold, collaboration with Ted Kennedy to give us No Child Left Behind. Damn I hate this president.