Rice says we must fight climate change with complete incompetence

[Flabbergasted]

and total disregard for human beings in order to make money for the oil industry.....


Well how else do you interpret this headline? :shrug:


http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/27/rice.climate.conference/


Nations must fight climate change like terrorism, Rice says

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday told delegates to a global climate change conference that countries around the world must work together to combat climate change, much as they cooperate against terror and the spread of disease.


U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice addresses the Global Change Conference on Thursday.

"No one nation, no matter how much power or political will it possesses, can succeed alone," she said. "We all need partners, and we all need to work in concert."

Rice said the United States takes climate change seriously, "for we are both a major economy and a major emitter."

"Climate change is a global problem, and we are contributing to it. Therefore, we are prepared to expand our leadership to address the challenge," she said.

Other nations have been critical of the Bush administration's policy on climate change after the United States withdrew from the 1997 U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, known as the Kyoto Protocol. More than 150 countries signed the Kyoto agreement, which mandates limits on emissions.

At a Group of Eight conference in June, President Bush pushed for a new framework on global gas emissions to counter the effects of global warming.

Bush said he believes every nation should set its own goals. The president expressed concern that setting strict targets would damage the U.S. economy. Instead, he said, industries should enact voluntary measures.

In her address Thursday to the Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change, Rice said an integrated response, including "environmental stewardship, economic growth, energy supply and security and development and the development and deployment of new clean energy technology" is the key to moving forward on the issue.

She listed three points that she hopes delegates will focus on during the conference:


An agreement on a long-term goal for greenhouse gas reduction.


The establishment of midterm national targets and programs tailored to each country's economic and energy needs to reach the broader goal.


The encouragement of work with private industry to develop new energy technology that doesn't risk but accelerates economic growth.

[hatrack]

1. Blahblahblah . . . Blahblahblah . . . Blahblahblahblahblahblah . . . Blah

Maybe we can cut emissions with amazing new grocery store scanners!

Seriously, that's about the level on which these clowns are operating - pristine in their condescending, clueless ignorance.

[ananda]

2. No, with criminal obstruction, distraction, and disregard.

nt

[Robson]

3. Donald Trump's description of Condi Rice

I'm no Trump fan but I have to agree with him when he describes her always smiling and waving but never getting anything done. She's reached her level of incompetence according to the old "Peter Principal" book. She always struck me as in way over her head and she knows it.

Her boss Bush is in way over his head too but he is far too stupid and arrogant to know it. Stupid and arrognance is a most dangerous mixture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxVyspm4-z0

[driver8]

4. Yay!! We are going to bomb the shit out of global warming!!

Our problems are solved!!

I knew Condi was good for something!

[DemGa]

5. Does anyone take this woman seriously??....nt

[MrCoffee]

6. why not? the misadministration fights every problem with complete incompetence

[Uncle Joe]

7. Imagine if you will, Earth as a sports team, because after all

we're all riding on the same blue marble. Coach Bush says screw mandatory team goals, just let every player set their own voluntary goals. They can come to practice if they want to but mandatory practice could cause undue hardship. Now you can call the game "life as we know it" or "survival of the human species", but the question is, what will the final score be at the end of the game?

"Bush said he believes every nation should set its own goals. The president expressed concern that setting strict targets would damage the U.S. economy. Instead, he said, industries should enact voluntary measures.'