White House Warns on Climate Change

The Washington Post ^ | John Heilprin

[Kermit]

President Bush dismissed on Tuesday a report put out by his administration warning that human activities are behind climate change that is having significant effects on the environment.

The report to the United Nations, written by the Environmental Protection Agency, puts most of the blame for recent global warming on the burning of fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into the environment.

Read article here.

[Kermit]

Has Bush flip-flop-flipped? Yesterday, the Bush Administration comes out saying there is global warming and it's caused by human activity. Today, Bush is dismissing it.

Once again, the GOP proves that it is incompetent at politics. That report never should have seen the light of day, even if only for the reason that it's based on fraud. Now Bush has to come out and flip-flop again. The Stupid Party rides again.

[anniegetyourgun]

I'm unaware that he has changed his position on this or the Kyoto treaty. But it is tough to keep tabs on all those job-for-a-lifetime government underlings. I strongly suspect that the real incompetents were in the last administration.

[Magnum44]

This was a liberal torpedo at GWB. While he stands behind his cabinet, he was probably bushwacked with this by either Whitmann or someone high in EPA. He will expose/embarass them by showing no support to this at the least. At best he will be looking for a few midterm resignations in the coming months.

[Slainte]

From the linked article-
"I read the report put out by the bureaucracy," Bush said dismissively Tuesday when asked about the EPA report, adding that he still opposes the Kyoto treaty.

Whitman should be out on her keester, and the rest of the EPA with her.

[onedoug]

Stupid v Evil?

[RightWhale]

What this shows is that the bureaucracy is really under the control of no one. It is the actual functional government by the people and its officials are not elected, but are career civil servants. Be grateful that the elected politicians don't have the power, except broadly, to regulate the bureaucracy, because . . . sometimes your guy is in office and sometimes the other guy is in office. It might be possible to dump all the regulations from time to time, and maybe that would be a good thing, but the government will continue to function over the longer time period and ignore the 2, 4, or 6 year election cycle. Continuity counts.

[Williams]

It's another misstep for Whitman. Shame to see it, but you probably have Clinton era holdovers at EPA working on their own agendas. I'm not sure the report says anything that problematic, except attributing some amount of warming to fossil fuels. Bush plans to reduce that pollution anyway, so what's the big deal?

[caisson71]

It's time for the "cowboy" to kick ass! He certainly is being damaged by this latest EPA report.

[Vidalia]

This is the same bunch of airheads who put out the endangered Lynx hoax awhile back.

GW should pay attentions to the advice of doctors..."if you have a gangrenous digit that may infect the rest of the body, the proper action would be to cut it off and destroy it..."

[Captainpaintball]

Although Whitman is the head of the EPA, the tone of the administration is set at the top, and after fighting a tree-hugging, wacko environmentalist to death in the 2000 election, the FIRST thing Bush should have done in office was to personally conduct a house cleaning at the EPA!!!

HE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT THE EPA WAS CAPABLE OF!!! He had almost a year and a half to do so!!!

[el_texicano]

It's another misstep for Whitman. Shame to see it, but you probably have Clinton era holdovers at EPA working on their own agendas.

Well stated. My suspicion would be as you state here. Clintonians in the woodwork. Maybe now whoever put out the report be it Whitman or some one else will be permanently assigned to some field testing out in the "rain forest" of Brazil. Whitman in my opinion needs to be taken to the woodshed for this and put in her place if she hasn't already.

[thinktwice]

Was Christie Whitman -- head of the EPA -- asleep at the switch here?

[meandog]

At least John McCain did what he said he was going to do during the campaign (whether some of you liked it or not) while Bush only has provided lip service...IMHO GWB is a warmed-over Jerry Ford!

[Clara Lou]

Whitman should be out on her keester
I agree completely.

[Dog Gone]

the FIRST thing Bush should have done in office was to personally conduct a house cleaning at the EPA!!!

The only people Bush can replace in an agency are the political appointees, a very small handful of the total workforce. The rest he has to live with.

In the EPA, the people who are attracted to government work in the environmental agency are bound to be 90% leftist. That's the reality.

[Clara Lou]

At least John McCain did what he said he was going to do during the campaign
Big deal! McCain doesn't have to face the ordeal of trying to accomplish things as POTUS. As a matter of fact, McCain is a RINO anyway, so he gets cooperation from Democrats who want to put a thumb in Bush's eye. I repeat: Big deal!

[Eva]

The report was issued by bureaucrats, leftover from the Clinton administration, most likely. It was released as being official Bush administration policy, most likely for the very purpose of creating this controversy and forcing Bush to deny it.

[Clemenza]

Reminds me of the time that Nixon commissioned a group to prepare a report on drug abuse in America. When the committee recommended that Marijuana be legalized, Nixon dismissed it.

One major difference: Unlike Nixon, GWB, DID NOT commission this report in the first place. It was the career bureaucrats at the EPA.

[markman46]

yep.. the same people who madeup the 1993 secondhand smoke bs.. can't live with them at all

[demlosers]

The only people Bush can replace in an agency are the political appointees, a very small handful of the total workforce. The rest he has to live with.

Presidential appointees need to handle each of their respective bloatacracies. One solution is to establish a policy stating reports/opinions ect., that have the potential to mis-represent the current administration have to be submitted for review before submission. You can control being blind-sided by leftist bureaucrats, you just have to pigeon-hole them. And when they don't follow orders, you then have the grounds to fire.

The question is how many more leftist/socialist/communist/liberal/feminist/traitors shenanigans does it take before Bush and his appointees do something about them?