| I suspect someone in the State Department slipped this one out the back door.
If you start reading the report though, you'll very quickly see that this is not the Bush Administration's cave-in to environmental wackoism. But that is not what you'll ever read in the New York Times, and I'm sure it isn't what we'll hear from the liberal activists who populate television news. From them we'll hear that the report "admits" that Global Warming is real, that "sensitive wetlands will be destroyed," and that cute little bunny rabbits are all going to die because Bush is a heartless tool of the oil companies. It's too bad that one-sided political ax-grinding is what passes for "news" in this country, but for the time being there is little we can do about it. Perhaps as alternatives to all-liberal-all-the-time media (like Fox News, the Washington Times, and most of the Internet) grow in significance, the ability of liberal ideologues to manipulate the public this way will decline. I'd like to think that the growing shrillness of the attacks, and the blatant use of Clinton campaign operatives as television "journalists," are symptomatic of a certain desperation on their part as they realize that they are losing their hold on the American people. We can hope. In the meantime, be wary of accepting the liberals' characterization of what this report says. It is a primarily a scientific document, and in that role it is very careful to say that some things are known, many things aren't, we don't have the monitoring technology to really say what's going on, and for sure any predictions we make will be tentative and probably wrong. You won't hear that part in the New York Times, and Katie Couric won't mention it either. As for what policies we should adopt in light of all this, the document is definitely the work of the Bush Administration. That's why the liberals are howling so loudly about it... there are no provisions in there to seize our SUV's and replace them with solar-powered wind bicycles. In fact the Administration does not seem to view the current state of the science as justification for meddling at all in people's private lives, or for turning the economy upside-down, which of course drives the liberals nuts. |
I though so too, until I looked at it. No, this is definitely a Bush Administration document. What's going on here is not that Bush has embraced Al Gore's environmentalism, but that the liberal media are having an orgy pulling quotations from the report with which to promote the usual Global Warming song-and-dance.