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White House report backs climate change warnings
L A Times ^ | May 30, 2008 | Margot Roosevelt and Kenneth R. Weiss

Posted on 05/30/2008 11:47:33 AM PDT by PROCON

After a court order and four years late, Bush administration scientists issue an assessment.

President Bush's top science advisors issued a comprehensive report Thursday that for the first time endorses what most scientific experts have long asserted: that greenhouse gases from fossil fuel combustion "are very likely the single largest cause" of Earth's warming.

The 271-page report could undercut opposition to the more aggressive provisions of climate legislation, which is to be debated in the Senate next week.

The Bush administration had long resisted a congressional mandate, the 1990 Global Change Research Act, requiring the White House to report every four years on the science and impact of global warming and other environmental forces.

A U.S. District Court in August ordered Bush to comply with a 2004 deadline for an updated report, after the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity and other environmental groups filed suit.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bashbush; bds; bdsmorons; bushlegacy; bushrage; bushtocomply; climatechange; congressionalmandate; courtordered; environment; globalwarming; govwatch
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To: LegendHasIt

I like five and a half years better.


41 posted on 05/30/2008 12:15:58 PM PDT by Flycatcher (Strong copy for a strong America)
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To: PROCON
Got this in an e-mail from a friend. She asked “What do U think about this?”

My reply was a one word colloquialism for bovine excrement.

42 posted on 05/30/2008 12:16:01 PM PDT by Roccus (Fighting democrats IS the war on terror!)
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To: PreciousLiberty

BTW, the lead article on icecap.us is about an eco-tourism _icebreaker_ that’s stuck in the ice trying to navigate the Northwest Passage. TFF!


43 posted on 05/30/2008 12:17:54 PM PDT by PreciousLiberty
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To: taraytarah

Science is hereby marginalized by this report. Our future is now officially in the hands of the Grimmists of Environmentalism.

There will be no reprieve from insanity.


44 posted on 05/30/2008 12:18:39 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Blue Turtle
Global Warming is a MYTH. Created to increase government control over our way of life.

Which is becoming increasingly appealing to Republican politicians, apparently.

This is rapidly becoming absolutely ludicrous.

So, do we alter, or abolish?
45 posted on 05/30/2008 12:18:42 PM PDT by bamahead (Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
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To: massgopguy

I wonder how they factored out the Sun?

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SHHHH!! The sun is never to be used as a factor when trying to implement socialism through the rube of “global warming” or climate change, the only science usable is the science that meets the objctive, thus rendering it non-scientific.

Alas, logic, common sense, critical thinking and the scientific method are all being thrown out the window in this “modern” age.

42% of democrats believe we either knew and let 9/11 happen or that the government did it themselves. People are easily bamboozled, and people are still amazed that Hitler became so powerful.

How many people believe in ghosts, UFO’s, and other wild conspiracy theories, we are in the anti-science age. We’re no better than the Mayans rolling heads down pyramids.


46 posted on 05/30/2008 12:20:26 PM PDT by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: MrB
Take one of those yellow “have a nice day” smiley faces, turn it green, the put a Hitler mustache on it.

I had this one laying around.


47 posted on 05/30/2008 12:22:42 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: PROCON
Idiocy like this ruling, makes events like THIS all the more important:

http://www.carbonbelchday.com/
48 posted on 05/30/2008 12:22:43 PM PDT by bamahead (Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
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To: Lazamataz; Eric in the Ozarks; Lancey Howard

I do NOT rue the days I voted for GWB twice.

I morn for the fact I was faced with the choice of voting for him, or receiving an even worse president.

I am sick and tired of the only choices being between ‘bad’ and ‘worse’.

I would settle for an election pitting ‘good’ against ‘mediocre’, but really want to be able to choose between ‘good’ and ‘better’.

Regretfully, I doubt America will ever see that rare type of election again.


49 posted on 05/30/2008 12:27:58 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
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To: massgopguy
“are very likely the single largest cause”

Ahh...the science of speculation.

Just what you would base a decision on to ruin the greatest Country in history.

Thanks Mr. Bush

50 posted on 05/30/2008 12:30:25 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Election '08, the year McCain defined the word "dilemma")
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To: massgopguy
Not the Cause
51 posted on 05/30/2008 12:34:33 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze
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To: MrB

Excellent idea.


52 posted on 05/30/2008 12:34:47 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Election '08, the year McCain defined the word "dilemma")
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To: PROCON

53 posted on 05/30/2008 12:38:50 PM PDT by Entrepreneur (The environmental movement is filled with watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside)
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To: Entrepreneur

Read the Project 1980’s report from The NYC Council on Foriegn Relations.


54 posted on 05/30/2008 12:40:46 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: MrB
Here you go.
55 posted on 05/30/2008 12:45:39 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze
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To: ApplegateRanch

‘zackly our situation today, eh ?


56 posted on 05/30/2008 12:46:16 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Blue Turtle; trumandogz; Lazamataz

Created to increase government control over our way of life.


When you ponder President Bush’s actions with the above statement in mind, it makes sense.


57 posted on 05/30/2008 12:49:29 PM PDT by kenth (Just think, .000001783% of the population is screwing it all up for the rest of us.)
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To: PROCON

It seems that Bush’s science advisers are incompetent. We now know more than we ever wanted to about his former press secretary. I have to conclude that the President has often shown poor personnel judgment. And it is safe to say that will be the verdict of history, if anyone bothers to write one.


58 posted on 05/30/2008 12:50:34 PM PDT by devere
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Heh... back at ya:

http://www.customonlinesigns.com/product/101469

you can pick “green”. Not sure if that makes the face green or just the eyes, hair, smile, etc.


59 posted on 05/30/2008 12:51:52 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Lazamataz

He is not just Polar Bear Bush, which he earned just a week ago, but Polar Bear Bush with oak leaf clusters now.


60 posted on 05/30/2008 12:52:07 PM PDT by RightWhale (We see the polygons)
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