Does Bush ignore global warming because it doesn't really affect the US?

[FormerRepublican]

I was reading some articles the other day on global warming - not from the US government, but from other sources. They seemed to show that the US would have less effects from global warming than other parts of the world. For example, Europe risks a return to an ice age due to a halt in oceanic circulation. Island countries run the risk of being completely inundated. But lo and behold, not much damage is being projected for the US except in coastal areas.

Now I think these reports are bunk because I read another article that showed Florida half under water from sea rise. But these reports seem to indicate the US will just become a bit more balmy and warm, but nothing really to worry about here.

Could this (and of course the almighty $$$) be the reason why Bush ignores global warming?

As is often the case when you search after the fact, I couldn't find the original links to the stories I looked at, but here's one that illustrates the argument:

http://www.yale.edu/forestry/popup/events/spring02/mendel.html

[EFerrari]

1. No. He ignores it because it doesn't affect him. n/t

[Roho]

8. I think about this often

These people and their offspring share this planet with us. Are they really so greedy that the would sellout their own family's future for a few more bucks?

I've finally decided that Swamp Rat's "lizard people" is as good an explanation as I can come up with.

[texastoast]

10. That would be yes

They would sell their grandmother.

[EFerrari]

15. To the highest bidder. Look at how the drug abusing Bush

kids are treated. They obviously get no love, compassion or support, let alone treatment.

SwampRat's solution is the only one that makes sense.

[Bluestar]

2. Ignores It Because the Oil Companies Wouldn't Like it

Take your pick, oil, power, coal and all the corporate polluters want to ignore global warming because they will be found to be the culprits!

[Lorien]

3. the US has already been impacted; increased hurricanes, drought

leading to MUCH higher food prices later this year (wait for it), and less snowfall in some areas which may cause water shortages. My guess is that BushCo hears what it wants to hear; NO scientist who's work has appeared in peer reviewed articles believes that global warming ISN'T caused by human activity, but 53% of all MSM articles cast doubt that it is (according to the Utne reader), and those reports are coming from industry hired "scientists" who are paid to cast doubt on the causes of climate change-and that it even exists at all. Those are who BushCo listens too. There's also the fundie belief that climate change will help cause the "end times" and force God to send Jesus back to earth-so they can hardly wait for it (I've actually spoken to fundies who have said this).

[FormerRepublican]

5. Lordie, that fundy view is pretty scary...

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. He ignores it on purpose

because he's got a bunker and you don't.

[FormerRepublican]

6. He's going to be really disappointed when he finds no food in the bunker.

And no one to bring him any...

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. Oh these bunkers are huge

and very well stocked. What's under that house in Crawford is not your average Joes' 10' X 10' container.

[FormerRepublican]

9. Is it one of those hidden alien bases we keep hearing about in the...

...conspiracy sites? Bush using the aliens for his own purposes down in the bunker?

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. More like the one Bush flew to on 9-11

Here's the official invite:


SWEET CHARITY

WARREN BUFFET'S CHARITY CLASSIC Sept. 11, an event that draws celebrities, professional athletes and CEOs to Omaha, Nebraska will be the last. It has raised nearly $9 million for four charities in its nine-year run while bringing to the event such notables as composer Marvin Hamlisch, investing guru Peter Lynch of Fidelity Management, then-Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt and actor Chuck Norris. Another $1 million is expected to be raised at the last of the one-day Classics, scheduled for Sept. 11. The money will be divided equally among: the Boys and Girls Clubs of Omaha, Omaha Children's Museum, Girls Inc. and the Omaha Theater Company for Young People. Susie Buffett, daughter of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman Warren Buffett,70, made the announcement. Roberta Wilhelm, executive director of the Omaha Theater Company for Young People, said her organization used part of the proceeds to renovate the Rose Blumkin Performing Arts Center and put some into an endowment to care for the facility. Renovation work, started in 1993, was finished in 1995.

LORETTA LYNN will be appearing at Bimbo's in San Francisco on September 13. The show is a benefit for A Home Away From Homelessness, the city's charity that provides a network for homeless and formerly homeless children.


http://www.broadwaytovegas.com/September9,2001.html

[kineneb]

12. how many US cities would be affected by raise in sea level?

I put this out to people who are more expert in the field than this humble musician. I sould think that most of our major port cities would have problems, since they near sea level.

[greenman3610]

13. the more extreme scenarios are the end of life as we know it

the tipping point could make this planet largely uninhabitable
except at the poles.
It's an extreme view, but Stephen Hawking, the
theoretical physicist, worries about Earth becoming
a cauldron like Venus.
http://www.greenparty.org/climate.html

James Lovelock, coiner of the "Gaia" monicker for
mother earth, says it is already too late to
prevent a catastrophe where billions will
die.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-2008072,00.html

[aquart]

14. AllState is refusing to insure NYC and LI homes.

Too coastal. I'd say we're being affected.

[Burning Water]

16. Nah, it's the $$

How can "global" not mean global?? Perhaps we should call it "international warming"? Or maybe, "Afro-Eurasian" warming? Doubt that would sell.

And not affected except for the coastal regions??! Where the hell do all the people live?? It's the coastal regions?

Nah, it's the money.

[G_j]

17. January Was America's Warmest on Record

& this has been the warmest period for the northern hemisphere since at least 800AD

see:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x381663