[america-rules]

GWB from a speech on June 11, 2001 ... "First, we know the surface temperature of the earth is warming. It has risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. There was a warming trend from the 1890s to the 1940s. Cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s. And then sharply rising temperatures from the 1970s to today. There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat, and thus warm the earth because they prevent a significant proportion of infrared radiation from escaping into space. Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicate that the increase is due in large part to human activity. Yet, the Academy's report tells us that we do not know how much effect natural fluctuations in climate may have had on warming. We do not know how much our climate could, or will change in the future. We do not know how fast change will occur, or even how some of our actions could impact it." The report just put out by the EPA first states that global warming is manmade and then states that we can't really tell if it is manmade or by how much is caused by man.

[Mike Darancette]

GWB from a speech on June 11, 2001...

Don't bother people with the facts ... that speech set out the current knowledge about global warming about as succinctly as can be said.

The difference between Bush and Gore on the issue is that Gore would take the most pessimistic version of this message as proven fact and saddle America with Carbon taxes, push to ratify Kyoto, enact CAFE standards, reduce America's standard of living, enact price controls and give Billions to the third world. Bush's response is to realize that there is nothing that can or should be done other than those things that can be done by a free society working together.

Whether or not there is Global Warming, how long it will last or if anything can be done about it is a matter of science not politics. How we react to such events is a matter of politics.