Actually, the funny thing is that the Bush Administration is reverting its original position which the President expressed during the campaign when he belatedly announced in 1999 that for the first time he believed that global warning was a major threat to the US.
YES!
I'm so happy someone around here still has a functioning memory!! Indeed he did. In fact, he specifically said that "after consulting with my advisors ... I think there is something to global warming"
(I've tried several searches but can't find *any* "global+warming" articles prior to 2002 as yet.
What he meant was: There is something political rather than scientific to global warming.