Climate Action Report 2002(NYT's Bush's U-Turn report)

US. EPA Global Warming ^ | May 2002 | Various EPA studies

[JerseyHighlander]

The United States of America's Third National
Communication Under the United Nations 
Framework Convention on Climate Change

FINAL VERSION
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Zip file of pdf containing entire document (5.7M)

Upfront (247k pdf)  – Cover page and table of contents.

Chapter 1.  Introduction and Overview (197k pdf) – Summarizes the main elements of the report.

Chapter 2.  National Circumstances (450k pdf) – Presents a snapshot of the national characteristics of the United States that play a role in climate change, including the country's climate, geography, economy, demographic trends, energy production and consumption, and natural resources.

Chapter 3.  Greenhouse Gas Inventory (442k pdf) – Provides a broad overview of all U.S. greenhouse gas emission sources and sinks, introduces key concepts, and discusses the primary drivers for the growth in emissions.  All material in the chapter is drawn from the U.S. Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks:  1990–1999. 

Chapter 4.  Policies and Measures (320k pdf) – Reviews national policies to limit emissions and enhance sinks of greenhouse gases undertaken since 1990.

Chapter 5.  Projections (322k pdf) – Quantifies the aggregate effects on greenhouse gas emissions of policies and measures implemented or planned from 1990 to 2020.

Chapter 6.  Vulnerability (1.5M pdf) – Addresses U.S. vulnerabilities to the adverse consequences of climate change and identifies the most promising adaptation measures being explored.

Chapter 7.  Financial Resources (426k pdf) – Reviews U.S. efforts with other countries to assist with mitigation and sequestration strategies, build human and institutional capacity to address climate change, and facilitate the commercial transfer of technology.

Chapter 8.  Research and Observation (296k pdf) – Discusses research efforts involving prediction of climate change, impacts and adaptation, and mitigation and new technologies.  This chapter also provides an overview of U.S. work on Global Climate Observing Systems.

Chapter 9.  Education, Training, and Awareness (269k pdf) – Addresses programs to educate and train students and citizens in areas related to climate change and reviews U.S. outreach activities to disseminate information about global climate change.

Appendix A:  Emission Trends. (1.9M pdf)

Appendix B:  Policies and Measures. (1.5M pdf)

Appendix C:  Selected Technology Transfer Activities and U.S. Direct Financial Contributions and Commercial Sales Related to Implementation of the UNFCCC. (4.4M pdf)

Appendix D:  Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions. (264k pdf)

Appendix E:  Bibliography. (197k pdf)

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[JerseyHighlander]

I'm not defending Bush, I want to expose the layers of junk science building up to the new phrenology on a global level. The weather service can't predict next Sunday's weather with great accuracy, I don't trust the entire greenhouse research complex enough to even contemplate altering the entire country's economic future based on their compounding junk science. Atlas Shrugged is about to become reality in the countries who maintain their Kyoto obligations, or so says jerseyHighlander.

These bureaucracies produce so much internet information I've spent the last two hours just looking through their layers of .....

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Freedomm -- member since May 28th, 2002

Why do I expect that you were somebody else until a few minutes ago?

[pierrem15]

a) I don't think much of the 'science' behind global-warming theory.

b) If the elected administration believes otherwise, the govt scientists have choice: shut up, or quit.

Since this is a highly politicized issue, the EPA should never have released this report without clearing it with the WH. It was done (with the NY Slimes apparently getting advanced preview) to embarass the President politically.

[JerseyHighlander]

Thanks, Nick Danger is spot on (I hope).

[Amelia]

Thanks for the ping, deport!

There is actually a fair bit of scientific debate on whether or not global warming is occuring, and if so, what the effects would be. One model has more water evaporating from equatorial regions, leading to more clouds, which would reflect some of the sun's energy back into space, which would cool everything back off....

I'm not convinced it's happening yet.

[sinkspur]

Unless of course a conservative administration ever comes to power.

We have one. You're just too reactionary to recognize it.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Yeah, but do YOU understand what that giant Taco Bell bulls-eye target in the Pacific Ocean allegedly for the falling satellite last year was REALLY used for?

It is the key to all, and our last hope. Happy sleuthing, while there is still a little time.

[deport]

Since 1992 California's popultion has increased due to immigration 25%, TX 20%, Arizona 18%, NY 25%, PA 20%, Michigan 20%, Ohio 15%, Washington 20%, I could go on but you get the picture.

You got data to back that up I'm sure?

Census data for 2000 vs 1990, total population growth.....
CA = 13.82% increase
TX = 22.76%
NY = 5.48%
PA = 3.36%

You get the Picture I'm sure.....

[rintense]

Well the weather where I live has been crazy for the past 20 years. Of course, I do live in Michigan. ;)

[grimalkin]

Thanks. The media will only report the sections they want the public to hear and ignore the rest.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Ah deport, you forget to count the underground(literal) population. Alien invaders from China, burrowing from a Pacific beach down through the earth core to build secret underground invasion staging cities beneath Los Angeles and the Bay Area. Their existance is denied, as they wait for the signal and the time to strike. Y2K was just a cover for a resupply effort(bomb shelter that were actually portholes), led by Ross Perot(codename Groundhog).

You don't REALLY believe those earthquakes were caused by just fault lines? Its just another cover story.

[patriciaruth]

TX = 22.76%

And that growth was from people moving to a State where GWB was governor. Includes my brother and sister-in-law. And next census will probably have some more of our clan.

[woofie]

I see a lot of hot air...

[woofie]

My swimming pool has a leak in it and my 8 year old daughter told me "Well we are having a drought, you know"

[Brian_Baldwin]

DON'T WORRY! The Bushies have it RIGHT! Making the Global Warming thing BUSH OFFICIAL, has NOTHING to do with Bush making a U-TURN! No! Drudge is simply a right-wing nut, and the Bushies are probably right, that Drudge guy he was just picking on Clinton, just like he's picking on Bushman. Drudge, and conservative nuts like him, they just don't respect the office of President of the United States. Anyway, making it (global warming earth in the balance) OFFICIAL only means that AL GORE WAS RIGHT, but, Bush is going to do it, the Buffalo Bush La CucaRockefeller Republican shindig INCREMENTALLY (maybe). That's the bottom line, it's going to be a nice glide into public transportation, so don't sweat it, just keep staring at your Bush and Laura photos and stuff. And, now that the Bush Administration, basically, has said that in fact Al "Earth in the Balance" Gore was right on this global warming thing and auto emissions and all, I guess that means we elected the wrong guy to office considering that, with yet another Bush-U-Turn towards the (barbed) left, and in particular on this issue, then Bush was up until now wrong on the issue, and so I suppose if the Bushies are saying in effect Al Gore was right all along it would have probably have made sense to elect the guy who had it right all along instead of wrong?

Right?

No! They are NOT saying that! The difference between Al Gore and Buffalo Bush is this, and THIS ONLY! Bush is a REPUBLICAN! And, Al Gore is NOT. Now do you understand? Maybe this ISN'T a U-TURN! Maybe this is a INSIDE-OUT TURN! Or maybe this is another Bush secret plan, that we just don't understand the big picture yet, but just trust Bush on this one - it all has to do with our war on (Islamic) terrorism or something. Don't worry, the Bushies will explain it all to us shortly so that we can be in on the "turn of the card" that Bush has up his sleeve on this one - don't worry, it's all part of a game plan to legerdemain the libs at their own game to defeat terrorism through political correctness, and, after all, if we get rid of oil and gas and automobiles and stuff, we won't have to rely on those Arab countries for all that oil. Get it? And, the bottom line is, as the Buffalo Bush Administration is now saying, global warming is caused by humans, you can forget about drilling for oil in the frozen tundra because the idea isn't to find more oil that feeds those autos, the idea is to go back to a world lit only by fire.

By the way, how's our borders? Safe?

[sinkspur]

You've been posting that bullshit all over FR tonight.

It's boilerplate that means NOTHING.

You've been debunked Brian, as you've been debunked every time you've posted on this website.

Why don't you remain a lurker and avoid the embarrassment?