U-TURN: BUSH ADMIN OUTLINES 'GLOBAL WARMING' EFFECTS ON AMERICA; ACKNOWLEDGES DAMAGE

Drudge Report ^ | 06/02/2002 | By Drudge

[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.

[Mulder]

The adminstration can issue all the reports it wants. Until they say the Kyoto treaty will be signed, I'll refrain from over reacting.

Yes, it's just a "report" and in and of itself it does nothing. It does, however, make conservatives who have opposed global warming look like the anti-environment extremists that the left accused of us being.

Actions do speak louder than words, like you stated. So we'll see. But frankly this adminstration is starting to have a big credibility problem on many issues...

[Senator Pardek]

[meyer]

Thanks for point that out, Nick D. I hadn't thought of that; I guess I'm just waiting for bad news today. After he's caved on a few other issues, I don't see Dubya as quite the conservative that I thought I was voting for though. Lets hope he didn't cave on the junk science issue.

[tomakaze]

RE:one more lurch to the left by the Bush Administration.
 
no no no - don't you see? It's all part of an ultra clever master plan to secure ultimate victory! - you know, the one where the take issues away from the fiendish democRats by adopting them as their own.
 
pass the kool aid.

[rintense]

Heh. I've learned that for me, knee-jerk reactions are a waste of energy. Once intentions become clear, I take all that energy and channel it to the appropriate people. And yes, believe it or not, I have sent emails to the President, etc. voicing displeasure over various issues.

A Sunday night headline by Drudge is always suspect to me.

[Don Carlos]

In voting for Dubya, I gave him my proxy for four years. I sure don't want to have to reconsider in '04, considering the 'Rats who are waiting for him to fall.

But damn, if he doesn't try the patience!

[Senator Pardek]

Press here.

[who knows what evil?]

Ok, 'global warming' advocates...spin me a tale explaining how global warming was responsible for the FIVE CONSECUTIVE DAYS of record cold in mid-May which devastated hundreds of gardens, along with the apple crop, in east Tennessee. The President has given me PLENTY of reasons to regret my vote in 2000; if this is true, this will be one more. (No, I am NOT a "Patsy"...I voted for Mr. Bush, and convinced many others to do so. I'm beginning to feel like an idiot.)

[rdb3]

He won't get my vote again.

Thanx for your time. Bye-bye.

[Sabertooth]

The adminstration can issue all the reports it wants. Until they say the Kyoto treaty will be signed, I'll refrain from over reacting.

OK, let's play devil's advocate and assume this is Rovian Triangulation at work. We're just defusing the envronmental wacko vote in November, or something.

I can't see how a pro-Global Warming Hoax report from Bush doesn't become grist for the wacko mill at some later date.

Assuming the Drudge Report has it straight in the first place, of course.

[sinkspur]

More Drudge bullshit for his lame Sunday show.

[rdavis84]

"That report was part of a "gee, what could the USAF do if we could have an unlimited budget and didn't need to bother getting permission from Congress" type study. The whole report proposed some amazingly eye-popping things...that will never get built."

Doesn't seem too expensive to me, an old R&D Engineer who changed to Manufacturing Management 25 years ago. -------

In fact, the technology already exists. In 1975, the US Navy patented a device for producing "a powder contrail having maximum radiation-scattering ability." The powder contained a mixture of 0.3 micron-sized titanium dioxide pigment particles coated with 0.007 micron hydrophobic colloidal silica and 4.5 micron particles of silica gel. The purpose of the apparatus was "to generate contrails or reflective screens for any desired purpose."

     The Welsbach Patent proposed using "very fine, talcum-like" powder of 10 to 100 micron-sized aluminum oxide to produce a "pure white plume" in the sky.

     In a May 2000 draft report submitted to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an expert panel chosen from among 3,000 atmospheric scientists, concluded that Teller's scheme might work. But the IPCC warned against unpredictable upsets of the atmosphere.

[pariah]

Hold on just a minute, Bush-bashers...

This is Drudge Report | 06/02/2002 | By Drudge

[Lazamataz]

A Sunday night headline by Drudge is always suspect to me.

Nick Danger had a much more realistic and insightful take on it: The halls of government are littered with thousands of Clinton holdovers. I have no idea why Bush allowed them to stay, but it was stupid -- and these 'reports' could be the actions of the leftists still in positions of power.

If Bush does not get rid of these people, he deserves the loss he will experience in 2004.

[patriciaruth]

i think true conservatives are minorities now. :(

And your definition of a "true conservative" is someone who thinks that the question of whether human activity is increasing global warming is a Constitutional question, not a scientific question?

[rintense]

I'd like to know the crackpots who wrote the report, and just what affiliation with the current adminstration they have.

[Amelia]

I wish they would at least wait until the facts are in.

Now, what fun would that be? ;-)

[Poohbah]

Many of those people have civil service protection. Unlike, say, Bill Clinton, Bush isn't the sort to file false charges with the FBI to move his own cronies into those offices.

[Sabertooth]

It does, however, make conservatives who have opposed global warming look like the anti-environment extremists that the left accused of us being.

Kinda like "kinder gentler nation" and "compassionate conservative" did in their heyday.

[MAKnight]

Simple fact; Bush has discovered what Jeffords, Chaffee, McCain, Greenwood, DiFrancesco and all our other friendly neighborhood RINOs and so-called "moderates" discovered a long time ago; if you want to get good Press, swerve hard Left.

Bush is trying to get his "moderate" credentials from the Press because if the Press doesn't acknowledge you as a "moderate" you're not a "moderate" at all. And since Castro is the average Presstitute's idea of the perfect politician, a "moderate" is really nothing more than a Democrat like Maxine Waters.

Nonetheless, I am so disappointed in Bush, I don't know what to say ... except, we have to get the Press. No serious Conservative running today can afford to run his campaign without having a group of aides whose specific job it is to f**k the Press over and leave their credibility in bloody ruins.

If anybody here is ever going to run for office, take this to heart; if you shoot and miss your opponent, make sure you shot hits his lying Press allies.