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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3271168Bush announces greenhouse gas strategy. Surprise It's bad.
Source: Wired
President Bush delivered a speech today in which he outlined a new strategy to "effectively combat climate change." Unfortunately, on my initial read of excerpts from his speech, it seems deeply, deeply flawed.
Bush is finally publicly admitting that emissions should be curbed because they affect the climate. That's fine, but his proposed response doesn't logically follow from that statement of fact. If you think the greenhouse gas emissions are a problem, then you should craft a solution that reduces them. But Bush, instead, is suggesting that no mandatory caps be put in place, that no specific targets be fixed in the near term, and that no moratorium be called on coal plant production.
Essentially, he just says, let's wait ten years and then do something. The initial IPCC draft roadmap called for rich nations like the US to make reductions of "25-40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020." Bush's plan would not only result in no reductions, but would actually allow for continued growth in emissions until 2025!
This speech strikes me as a desperate, half-baked ruse to stave off the real climate change legislation that is almost sure to come down the pike during the next Presidential Administration. On this issue, a new President cannot take the Oval Office fast enough, be it Obama, McCain, or Clinton.
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http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/bush-announces.html 
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