Bush call for action on global warming

[rodeodance]

Source: ap




Bush call for action on global warming

By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer 49 minutes ago

SYDNEY, Australia - President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao, leaders of two of the world's worst polluting nations, called Thursday for greater international cooperation in tackling climate change without stifling economic growth.

Bush also was to push for expanded trade with Pacific Rim nations and appeal for help in getting stalled global trade talks going again. He was laying out his views on the environment, energy security and the economic costs of terrorism in a speech to business leaders from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

Climate change was high on the agenda of the U.S. and Chinese presidents in a 90-minute meeting and aides said it would be an important aspect of Bush's speech. The president also was to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, among heads of state here for the annual meeting of the 21-nation economic gathering.

Bush has been criticized by environmentalists and others for his opposition to the 1997 Kyoto treaty against global warming, and China has long been slammed for the huge amounts of greenhouse gases its power plants and industries pump into the atmosphere. The fact that neither China nor India, another major global polluter, were covered by Kyoto was one reason Bush has opposed it.

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Corporations are looking to making a killing on his proposals.

[acmavm]

1. This thug's administration has done everything they could to

exascerbate the problem and weaken and prevent any legislation to try to halt the destruction caused by global warming. The repubics all say its a lie.

Now that he must be feeling unloved and unwanted, he's gonna try to play environmentalist.

[nebenaube]

2. his solution to the problem

is probably going to be a nuclear winter.

[yojon]

3. Yeah...right

Like anybody belives this....

[Bjorn Against]

17. I believe it, you just have to listen to what he is really saying

"President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao, leaders of two of the world's worst polluting nations, called Thursday for greater international cooperation in tackling climate change without stifling economic growth."

Notice the phrases I bolded, Bush is not actually saying he is going to do anything to combat global warming he is calling for "international cooperation" meaning other countries should step up while he does nothing. The "without stifling economic growth" phrase is key as well, because he is suggesting he is not willing to do anything that would cost the corporations any money, meaning any steps he will take will do little or nothing to make a dent in the global warming problem.

If you read his words carefully he makes it clear that he has no intention of fighting global warming.

[rodeodance]

4. Bush wants this SUMMIT as part of his legacy

[Betsy Ross]

5. "tackling climate change without stifling economic growth"

It's not global warming he wants to do something about. It is preventing the stifling of economic growth that is his interest.

Proud to say that I caught Craig's "intent" to resign when he first spoke the words. Same kind of verbal bs.

[Kagemusha]

6. "without stifling economic growth" is the catch that the AP ignores in the header

That largely translates to "Bush calls for all action on global warming to cease indefinitely".

[Magleetis]

7. More lies

and bushit. He has no substance. He has the worth of a large steaming pile. Most of us knew it all along but could only watch as he systematically dismantled all things good in America.

[Ian David]

8. According to the Bush plan, cutting down a forest to make furniture = sequestering carbon. n/t

[harun]

9. The Bush Jintao Plan

Let me guess, their plan is they both decided that all other countries but the U.S. and China should start worrying about pollution because they won't be worrying about it anytime soon.

[Bongo Prophet]

10. China to sell us buckets -as the waters rise, we all pull together and bail. Problem solved!

Free markets have spoken!
All hail the Invisible Hand!

[geomon666]

19. If it's China, the buckets will disolve with contact with water....

The resulting mixture would then create a highly corrosive acid melting anyone in the vicinity.

[Raine]

11. chimp is

full of shit. x(

[superconnected]

12. In other words they want to pollute in all countries, not just their own.

Why else would the two worst polluters call on the world to impose sanctions "without stifling economic growth".

[MasonJar]

13. What a total joke that "moran" is! Who does he think he is fooling?

On edit: do not let him out of the country again. It costs money and moreover it is too embarrassing.

[trusty elf]

14. global worming

[PianoBlack]

15. So, let me see if I can understand this correctly....

Bush FINALLY gets it! He notices that he is helping to kill future generations and now after all these years of opposition...he gets it. It finally all has come together for him. Isn't that lovely?

And not only that, he will not agree to let Taiwan be a part of the UN. One china and all that...fine. But he will turn around and sell weapons to him. It's as if to say,

"Hey...your not a country yet kid. Take these weapons and call me when you really gain your independence. Then we'll talk

Wonderful....

[olddad56]

16. Perhaps he will outsource the cleanup of the environment to Halliburton.

I'm thinking he has no interest in global warming other than how to make a zillion dollars from the problem.

[Lisa]

18. an excellent point! he sees EVERYTHING as a way to gouge money ...

... especially from poor people who cannot afford it. Because it's those who are already poor (subsistence farmers, the inner-city residents of places hit hard by heat waves or flooding, etc.) who will pay most heavily for the environmental damage caused by global warming emissions. For Bush and his ilk, war is just another way to profit (arming the participants and selectively rebuilding afterwards). Just as environmental problems and large numbers of sick people are not a tragedy, but something to exploit.

(And indeed, economists calculating the GDP include these kinds of profits ... rather than seeing war, etc. as negative things that could be prevented, saving a great deal of suffering and expense.)

[CHIMO]

20. APEC rift opens over climate change debate

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Leaders at an Asia-Pacific summit appeared deadlocked on Thursday over what their "Sydney declaration" on climate change and cutting greenhouse gas emissions should say.

China's President Hu Jintao gave only qualified support to Australia's initiative on climate change, while some developing nations criticized Australian and U.S. moves to put climate change at the top of the agenda of the APEC gathering in Sydney.

Hu told a rare news conference after meeting Australian Prime Minister John Howard that he preferred the U.N. framework for handling climate change proposals.

"We very much hope that this Sydney Declaration will give full expression to the position that the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change would remain the main channel for international efforts to tackle climate change," Hu said.

http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-09-06T094519Z_01_SYD197071_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-APEC-COL.XML

[lonestarnot]

21. When I saw your headline, I says to self..."this you've got to see."

Yep just what I expected. Big fat fucking nutt'n.

[Orsino]

22. Let me guess: more tax cuts for Big Oil? n/t