GW on GW: :
In the stunning turnaround, Pres. Bush announced that "the United States has sent a climate report to the United Nations detailing specific and far-reaching effects it says global warming will inflict on the American environment."
"In the report, the administration also for the first time places most of the blame for recent global warming on human actions -- mainly the burning of fossil fuels that send heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere."
This , compared to outright denials previously by the BushCo boys, is akin to being wrong about global warming/climate change. Not to Bush, known for his abililty to resist these labels such as "wrong", or "lies". [diplomatic Karlin! eh?]
This admission might make supporters, who parrotted the denials so loyaly, a bit squirmy, asking themselves if they should have such "blind loyalty" in the future.
So what, thats okay. We don't need him to admit he was wrong.
What we need is a way to reduce the effects of the buildup of humanitys' greenhouse gases [GGs] [mostly from fossil fuels, btw].
Climate Change, Global Warming [CC, GW] can be devastating, or merely damaging... depending on what we do NOW. Reducing GGs emissions at this point is paramount to reducing the degree of harm.
Quote from the American report sent to the U.N.:
"does not propose any major shift in the administration's policy on greenhouse gases.
"Instead, it recommends adapting to inevitable changes instead of making rapid and drastic reductions in greenhouse gases to limit warming...
"that nothing can be done about the environmental consequences of several decades' worth of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases already in the atmosphere, and calls for voluntary measures that would allow gas emissions to continue to rise, with the goal of slowing the rate of growth.
K - adapting eh?
Voluntary - Isn't that against the bottom line for corporations? They are contracted to get as much for shareholders as possible, so any oil corporation who would spend one red cent on reducing emissions will be in violation of their Prime Directive" of profit making. [yes, I am still reading "The Corporation"].
Adapting... means standing in front of the fan as the shit hits, and just taking it. Thats not the American Way!! or is it?
The report lists some of the dangers and problems with climate change, and a few positive changes too.
Catastrophic events , and Cascade Effects [eg. - vegatation dying and releasing more CO2] were not mentioned.
Are you as excited as I am about adapting?
Karlin
quotes above from this link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/06/03/MN215596.DTL
Bush Admits Global Warming Does Exist, Recommends No Action Be Taken at this link:
http://www.drugwar.com/pbushglobalwarming.shtm
In the stunning turnaround, Pres. Bush announced that "the United States has sent a climate report to the United Nations detailing specific and far-reaching effects it says global warming will inflict on the American environment."
"In the report, the administration also for the first time places most of the blame for recent global warming on human actions -- mainly the burning of fossil fuels that send heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere."
This , compared to outright denials previously by the BushCo boys, is akin to being wrong about global warming/climate change. Not to Bush, known for his abililty to resist these labels such as "wrong", or "lies". [diplomatic Karlin! eh?]
This admission might make supporters, who parrotted the denials so loyaly, a bit squirmy, asking themselves if they should have such "blind loyalty" in the future.
So what, thats okay. We don't need him to admit he was wrong.
What we need is a way to reduce the effects of the buildup of humanitys' greenhouse gases [GGs] [mostly from fossil fuels, btw].
Climate Change, Global Warming [CC, GW] can be devastating, or merely damaging... depending on what we do NOW. Reducing GGs emissions at this point is paramount to reducing the degree of harm.
Quote from the American report sent to the U.N.:
"does not propose any major shift in the administration's policy on greenhouse gases.
"Instead, it recommends adapting to inevitable changes instead of making rapid and drastic reductions in greenhouse gases to limit warming...
"that nothing can be done about the environmental consequences of several decades' worth of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases already in the atmosphere, and calls for voluntary measures that would allow gas emissions to continue to rise, with the goal of slowing the rate of growth.
K - adapting eh?
Voluntary - Isn't that against the bottom line for corporations? They are contracted to get as much for shareholders as possible, so any oil corporation who would spend one red cent on reducing emissions will be in violation of their Prime Directive" of profit making. [yes, I am still reading "The Corporation"].
Adapting... means standing in front of the fan as the shit hits, and just taking it. Thats not the American Way!! or is it?
The report lists some of the dangers and problems with climate change, and a few positive changes too.
Catastrophic events , and Cascade Effects [eg. - vegatation dying and releasing more CO2] were not mentioned.
Are you as excited as I am about adapting?
Karlin
quotes above from this link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/06/03/MN215596.DTL
Bush Admits Global Warming Does Exist, Recommends No Action Be Taken at this link:
http://www.drugwar.com/pbushglobalwarming.shtm