Posted on 04/16/2008 11:40:40 AM PDT by stockpirate
WASHINGTON (AP) - Revising his stance on global warming, President Bush on Wednesday proposed a new target for stopping the growth of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. The president also called for putting the brakes on greenhouse gas emissions from electric power plants within 10 to 15 years.
"To reach our 2025 goal, we will need to more rapidly slow the growth of power sector greenhouse gas emissions so that they peak within 10 to 15 years, and decline thereafter," Bush said in excerpts of the speech released early by the White House.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
” We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing — in terms of economic socialism and environmental policy.”
- Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)
“I don’t really view communism as a bad thing.”
— Whoopi Goldberg
So, driving your car...polluting.
Burning coal for fuel...polluting.
Breathing....non-polluting????
This is just unreal. The neo-con assimilation into liberalism is complete. What a sad, sad day for America.
This isn’t funny. This man’s an idiot. But the really depressing thing is that there is no one better on the horizon. You’re right, we’re screwed.
Don’t let the Demorats force another act of Terror on America!
Ahhhh Bush is a Republicanocrat
Hey Bush, go to hell and try to curb warming there. You can also pick up trying to negotiate a “Roadmap to Peace” with Arafat while you are at it.
I’m more sick of that turncoat in the White House than I was of Clinton after eight years. What a disaster.
Could you please give some references for your figures of 40% and 70% efficiencies. My last recollection for thermal power plant efficiencies (coal, oil, nuclear, etc.) was about 32 - 33%. Perhaps you are discussing some other parameter?
Well I must agree with and Newt has also sold out.
I guess the money is just too good for them not to sell our country down the road.
We should all re-read the Bill of Rights.
Time for a new party. I’m not a liberal, so I don’t fit in the DNC or the GOP..
” We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing — in terms of economic socialism and environmental policy.”
- Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)
Huh?????????????????????
More positioning for the run against the Obamamassiah !!!
Timothy....Even though I don’t need it, gimme some money....
It’ll be the “right thing”....
NORTHERN HEMISPHERE Snow coverage Anomalies 2008 the highest since ‘77 and second highest since before 1966!!!
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_anom.php?ui_set=0&ui_region=nhland&ui_month=3
I hate to break the news to you but Bush is NOT running against Obama.
“The answer to global warming is in the abolition of private property and production for human need. A socialist world would place an enormous priority on alternative energy sources. This is what ecologically-minded socialists have been exploring for quite some time now.”
- Louis Proyect, Columbia University
I know makes me sick.
Who knows? Maybe Bush’s idea is to postpone real action long enough for the technologies to catch up with the “problem”.
I thought it was ironic that the administration decides to buy this nonsense the same day a report by SCIENTISTS debunks the notion of man made global warming. This was sent by Lars Larson ( http://www.larslarson.com ). Yesterday, one of the scientists involved was on his radio show with news of this new information. Please pass it around!
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:10:37 -0700
Subject: [Climate Sceptics] Breaking News: Scientists call on UN Climate Committee to admit they are wrong and renounce Global Warming claims and policies
Breaking News:
Scientists call on UN Climate leaders to admit they are wrong and renounce Global Warming claims and ‘devastating policies’
Please circulate as widely as possible, thank you
From
Hans Schreuder hans@tech-know.eu of http://www.ilovemycarbondioxide.com/indexd.html +447874811849 &
Piers Corbyn of WeatherAction long range forecasters +447958713320 / +447507426264 piers@weatheraction.com
The UN’s Climate Committee leadership and policies were today challenged by four scientists, including one Nobel Peace Prize winner, from around the world to admit that CO2 centred Global Warming theories are now disproved by observations and to renounced that theory and associated ‘devastating policies’ which are weakening the world economy and increasing food shortages and destruction of forest across the planet.
Their bombshell letter (below and pdf attached) includes a graph by Joseph D’Aleo, (Certified Consultant Meteorologist, Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), and Executive Director Icecap.us)
based entirely on official figures which shows that while CO2 has risen dramatically for the last ten years world temperatures have been falling contrary to the UN (IPCC) predictions.
The writers directly challenge the IPCC to produce observational evidence for the UN’s CO2 driven Global Warming theories which are now being used to justify anti-CO2 measures and taxes all over the world: “If you believe there is evidence of the CO2 driver theory in the available data please present a graph of it” the scientists challenge.
Media are welcome to publish the graph and letter and extracts therefrom.
The letter:
Dr. Rajendra Pachauri
Chairman Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
c/o World Meteorological Organization
7bis Avenue de la Paix
C.P. 2300 CH- 1211 Geneva 2,
Switzerland
14 April 2008
Dear Dr. Pachauri and others associated with IPCC
We are writing to you and others associated with the IPCC position – that man’s CO2 is a driver of global warming and climate change – to ask that you now in view of the evidence retract support from the current IPCC position [as in footnote 1] and admit that there is no observational evidence in measured data going back 22,000 years or even millions of years that CO2 levels (whether from man or nature) have driven or are driving world temperatures or climate change.
If you believe there is evidence of the CO2 driver theory in the available data please present a graph of it.
We draw your attention to three observational refutations of the IPCC position (and note there are more). Ice-core data from the ACIA (Arctic Climate Impact Assessment) shows that temperatures have fallen since around 4,000 years ago (the Bronze Age Climate Optimum) while CO2 levels have risen, yet this graphical data was not included in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers (Fig. SPM1 Feb07) which graphed the CO2 rise.
More recent data shows that in the opposite sense to IPCC predictions world temperatures have not risen and indeed have fallen over the past 10 years while CO2 levels have risen dramatically.
The up-dated temperature measurements have been released by the NASA’s Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) [1] as well as by the UK’s Hadley Climate Research Unit (Temperature v. 3, variance adjusted - Hadley CRUT3v) [2]. In parallel, readings of atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have been released by the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii [3]. They have been combined in graphical form by Joe D’Aleo [4], and are shown below. (graph posted at http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/)
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