Hello, Dolly.
So it really caught my attention a couple days ago when the nytimes said that the scientists in the White House now explicitly acknowledge that CO2 causes global warming, whereas previous policy "stressed uncertainties" in determining this. I got really excited for about 3 or 4 seconds, thinking that W could no longer deny the amplitude of his failure on this front. Of course I was wrong. It just really pisses me off how nobody seems to care much about global warming. Even the Democrats refuse to make a big issue of it. Why are there scientists in George Bush's White House, anyway?
From nytimes.com:
White House officials, who did not go out of their way to publicize the report, clearly do not mean it to be interpreted as a campaign-year change in President Bush's position on global warming or as a precursor to more aggressive legislative and administrative measures. But they did not brush it off, as happened in 2002 when Mr. Bush dismissed a serious internal study written by his own experts. Nor did they attempt to suppress it, as happened later that year with a report on air pollution from the Environmental Protection Agency. "
From slate.com:
[T]he president "appeared unfamiliar" with a recent administration report concluding that human activities seem to explain global warming. The White House had previously remained agnostic on that; the new report acknowledged what most scientists now agree on-at least it seemed so. "Ah, we did?" said Bush. "I don't think so."
Classic.
Recycle and support renewable energy, you fools.
From nytimes.com:
White House officials, who did not go out of their way to publicize the report, clearly do not mean it to be interpreted as a campaign-year change in President Bush's position on global warming or as a precursor to more aggressive legislative and administrative measures. But they did not brush it off, as happened in 2002 when Mr. Bush dismissed a serious internal study written by his own experts. Nor did they attempt to suppress it, as happened later that year with a report on air pollution from the Environmental Protection Agency. "
From slate.com:
[T]he president "appeared unfamiliar" with a recent administration report concluding that human activities seem to explain global warming. The White House had previously remained agnostic on that; the new report acknowledged what most scientists now agree on-at least it seemed so. "Ah, we did?" said Bush. "I don't think so."
Classic.
Recycle and support renewable energy, you fools.