Posted on 06/08/2002 4:54:38 PM PDT by ReaganRevolution
Gore Slams Bush for Refusing Global Climate Report Sat Jun 8
MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on Saturday criticized President Bush for refusing to accept a federal agency report that blames humans for global warming.
The recently released Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report appeared to back the view of many scientists who believe global warming is caused mainly by emissions from automobiles, power plants, and oil refineries.
Bush appeared to dismiss the report, calling it a product of bureaucracy, and said he would continue to press for voluntary efforts and financial incentives for U.S. companies to reduce emissions.
Gore, the 2000 Democratic presidential nominee and a champion of environmental protection as vice president, said the president had succumbed to powerful interests that run the Republican Party and rejected the report rather than accept it and do something about global warming.
"That's not a moral choice," Gore said. "I don't want to hear from this bunch: 'We didn't know'."
Gore has questioned Bush's policies on the economy, environment and values in previous appearances since emerging from a year of political seclusion in February. He has not said whether he will make another run at the White House in 2004.
The Bush administration has put "lobbyists for the polluters in charge of policies" and put "the hungriest fox they could find" to guard government henhouses, Gore said.
The Bush administration had repeatedly emphasized that there was not enough scientific evidence to link global warming to industrial emissions and has refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty, which seeks to reduce worldwide atmospheric emissions.
The State Department has submitted the report by the EPA, whose top officials are appointed by the president, to the United Nations.
Republicans want to turn their back on the environment rather than embrace new technologies that can clean up the environment and create jobs, Gore said.
"It is our moral responsibility and it's our economic opportunity,' Gore said.
"Greenhouse gasses are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as the result of human activities, causing global mean surface temperature and subsurface ocean temperature to rise."
I'd bet the EPA bureaucrats who wrote that report came to this conclusion based on their political viewpoint on environmental policies rather than sound scientific evidence.
Notice also how the EPA bureaucrats say "accumulating in Earth's atmosphere". They might as well have written Gaiea (or however the hell you spell it).
Geez, why not just say "the earth"?
Sometime?
Your ignorance is showing!
THE LOSER OF THE LAST PRESIDENTAL ELECTION.
That is, unless one believes the industrial revolution causes both global cooling and global warming, which would be a rather absurd contention.
Clinton never signed it and the Senate never voted on its ratification. Gore signed it in November of 1998. The Senate then took a near unanimous vote advising Clinton not to submit any energy treaty that might hamper the US economy. Clinton stuck it in his pocket and that was the end of it. Bush has dissed Kyoto entirely.
Exactly, OS. And when you bring this little factoid up with them, my, what a tap dance they do! "Well, ya see, Saphire, that is, Mama, took all de measaments, but then Andy misundastood dat he had ta subtract dat deviation from da disprapotion, and dat's why it comes out even, and hot is cold, ya see."
What I don't understand is one group is claiming the report is complete nonsense and doesn't say what the NYT says it says. Bush distances himself from the report (but they still claim the report means nothing). Al Gore says it's a bad thing that Bush repudiates the report...but they still say the report meant nothing.
Others say the Bush bashers head's are spinning. Making it seam as if Bush planned this all along.
All's I want to know is why did it take so long for him to come out and distance himself from this report...in fact, he waited until a reporter asked him about it. Also, I want to know who in the EPA is getting fired over this report making to the UN.
Not, 'Paranoid FR Bushbots Chased By Phantom Bushbashers At Every Turn'.
Please check into the FR free clinic for your cup of camomile tea, and "talk" with a counselor.
Question: Where you part of the 17% conservatives that voted for Gore and have you donated to FR for this fundraiser? Just asking! Have a nice night!
1) That must be a pre-Chamomile Tea/counselor question...No true "conservative" in his right mind would have vote for Gore
2) No, not yet :-)
Now let me ask you an honest question: Is it your opinion that each and every policy enacted on by Dubya should be met with roaring approval, regardless of it's ramification? In the spirit of 'FR peace and love', malicious attacks upon the President shouldn't be confused with 'constructive criticism'.
Ah yes. From the same man who had to go potty because of too much iced tea when Bubba was plotting to sell off everything from overnights in the Lincoln Bedroom to nuke designs for the Chicoms. From the same man who claimed he never knew he was at a Buddhist temple to shake down impoverished monks for campaign cash. From the same man who didn't know who Juanita Brodderick is. From the same man who actively encouraged his RAT lawyers to throw out as many US servicemembers votes as possible to steal the election, yet claimed he was unaware of such things. I could go on...
And people told me I needed to change my handle last year. 8^)
Thank you! Even Gore catches on faster than some of our Bush-bashers. Ha ha
Not, 'Paranoid FR Bushbots Chased By Phantom Bushbashers At Every Turn'.
Could be... 'Outsmarted by AlGore, Embarassed Bushbashers Try to Hide, Disguise Themselves as FR Phantoms'.
Let me suggest a new title:
'Bushbots Mushroom Supply Not Yet Dwindled -- Sightings Of UFOs, Flying Monkeys, And Bushbashers Still A Concern'
ROFLOL and you think I need to visit the FR free clinic and "talk" :-)
It is a PDF document, so you'll need Acrobat Reader.
As near as my tired old eyes can make out, 42 countries have ratified it.
We all know what ratification means. Tell me what it means that some countries have accepted(At), approved(Ap) or acceded(Ac) to this farce?
My apologies......Being one who uses sarcasm quite a bit, I should have known better.
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