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Posted on 06/02/2002 6:07:27 PM PDT by Lazamataz
DAMAGE
In a stunning U-turn for the Bush administration, the United States has sent a climate report to the United Nations detailing "specific and far-reaching effects" that it says "global warming will inflict" on the American environment.
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Also for the first time -- the White House places "most of the blame for recent global warming on human actions -- mainly the burning of fossil fuels that send heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere," the NEW YORK TIMES is planning to report on Monday Page Ones, according to publishing sources.
And the Democrats are all too happy to provide them with Chicken Little reporting in order to keep them stirred up.
"we cannot rule out that some significant part is also a reflection of natural variability."
(For you motorheads, I'm watching the Isle of Man TT on Speed. Screw Drudge).
One year ago, I (and most of the other posters) would have thought this was crap coming from the NYT, without even reading the entire article.
Now, I and many posters here thought it was true, without even reading the entire article.
The only thing that has changed in that year, is how I view Bush on the political spectrum because of actions he has taken (or failed to take) on other issues. Because of his actions, he has lost the trust of many conservatives.
If Bush had taken the view that the 1994 GOP Congress did and called for the abolition of the EPA, then not a single person here would have believed the initial Drudge/NYT report.
Maybe a slap in the face from enough voters will convince them that they are the Party that is expected to take up for legitimate Americans. If not they are one leftist Party too many.
The New York Times | 06/03/2002 | ANDREW C. REVKINIn a stark shift for the Bush administration, the United States has sent a climate report to the United Nations detailing specific and far-reaching effects that it says global warming will inflict on the American environment.
In the report, the administration for the first time mostly blames human actions for recent global warming. It says the main culprit is the burning of fossil fuels that send heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
But while the report says the United States will be substantially changed in the next few decades — "very likely" seeing the disruption of snow-fed water supplies, more stifling heat waves and the permanent disappearance of Rocky Mountain meadows and coastal marshes, for example — it does not propose any major shift in the administration's policy on greenhouse gases.
It recommends adapting to inevitable changes. It does not recommend making rapid reductions in greenhouse gases to limit warming, the approach favored by many environmental groups and countries that have accepted the Kyoto Protocol, a climate treaty written in the Clinton administration that was rejected by Mr. Bush.
The new document, "U.S. Climate Action Report 2002," strongly concludes that no matter what is done to cut emissions in the future, nothing can be done about the environmental consequences of several decades' worth of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases already in the atmosphere.
Its emphasis on adapting to the inevitable fits in neatly with the climate plan Mr. Bush announced in February. He called for voluntary measures that would allow gas emissions to continue to rise, with the goal of slowing the rate of growth.
Thank you, President Eisenhower, for my childhood that was a childhood.
And thank you, President George W. Bush, for the normal kids who will grow up under your admininistration.
Here's a novel idea...next week try to do your lame radio gig without manufactruing a story out of whole cloth.
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