Bush Says Global Climate Change "Serious" Problem - AFP

[hatrack]

US President George W. Bush said Tuesday that global climate change is a "serious long term" problem and insisted that the United States, which rejected the Kyoto protocol, was leading research into finding solutions.

Climate change was one of the key issues to be raised by British Prime Minister Tony Blair during a summit with Bush at the White House.

Bush told a press conference afterwards, "I've always said it's a serious long long-term issue that needs to be dealt with, and my administration isn't waiting around to deal with the issue.

"We lead the world when it comes to dollars spent, millions spent on research about climate change," the US president said. "We want to know more about it. It's easier to solve a problem when you know a lot about it."

EDIT

Well, I guess I'll start my day with a little bit of projectile vomiting - :puke:

http://www.terradaily.com/2005/050607213221.9uwex1o6.html

[devinsgram]

1. Please, give me a break

And the moon is made of blue cheese.

[liberal N proud]

2. And out of the other side of his mouth...

he promotes relaxing of standards on greenhouse gases.

:wtf:

[Dhalgren]

3. Fuck Bush

[punpirate]

4. That may play for a goodly part...

... of the domestic audience, but I think the rest of the world is a little tired of the Bushies' refusal to actually do anything....

And, given that one of his oil cronies in the White House has been busily rewriting every document coming out of the administration on the subject to make it seem as if it's a potential problem, this is yet more hypocrisy from a master on the subject. :grr:

[Karenina]

8. I shat the world...

[Fridays Child]

5. Yes, Georgie, it's like herpes.

Just a big, bad, embarrassing nuisance. Now, let the adults get back to work.

Why don't you go upstairs and see Laura? She has some cookies and a glass of nice, warm milk waiting for you.

Oh, and Georgie? Don't forget to take your medicine.

[Doctor_J]

12. He'll probably make Pickles his Climate Czar

she's smarter than he is.

[Inland]

6. When Bush says "long term problem", he means "someone else's". nt

[universalcitizen]

7. A cold world is what Bush is creating for himself

and all others who believe the lies of the Beast. But then they can warm it up with the last great war. Stupid men. Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Soon their madness will be known to all men as it already is known to the higher powers.

[damntexdem]

9. Hey, he means it -- he really wants more studies ...

so the White House can change their conclusions to read the way the polluters want them to read.

[Doctor_J]

10. "...which I intend to solve by bowing out of Kyoto and

giving tax breaks to oil companies and SUV drivers".

I just love when Smirk puts on his scientist hat.

[wallwriter]

11. He assumes that eveyone in the US is a dumb as he is.

Astounding.

[Catfight]

13. Lip service! nt

[seafan]

14. More prevarication from the article:

....But Bush said that the United States will have to change its high energy consuming habits and move away from "a hydrocarbon society".

He said he hoped gas-guzzling American drivers would turn to alternatives such as hydrogen fuel powered cars.

"Our country is going to have to diversify away from the type of automobiles we drive. It's beginning to happen here. We'll have more fuel cells, cars driven by fuel cells on the road next year than the past year, and more after that. We're beginning to change."

Bush also said the United States was spending a lot of money on producing coal that creates less pollution.....

http://www.terradaily.com/2005/050607213221.9uwex1o6.html



He loves those "society" words, doesn't he?

"Ownership society"..... now "hydrocarbon society"...

Also, he is talking up spending money on "less polluting coal".... oh, yes, let's just look at the millions of dollars in loan guarantees hidden in the mammoth energy bill before Congress right now, a huge gift to his ex-ENRON buddies to start up a new coal business, that, if they default on this nice gov't loan, the TAXPAYERS will pick up the tab!!

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Group_claims_windfall_for_Enron_execs_buried_in_new_energy_0606.html


Have we had enough of these criminals yet?

[hatrack]

17. Yes, let me just pop down to my local GMC dealer for a hydrogen sedan

Oh really? 2020? 2025?

Oh, never mind.

I really enjoyed this bit, too:

"We'll have more fuel cells, cars driven by fuel cells on the road next year than the past year, and more after that."

Yes, we'll go from two or three dozen to three or four dozen. And their costs will drop from $2.5 million a pop to $2.4 million. Pardon me while I go and :puke:

:eyes:

[Massachusetts]

15. "Bush Says Global Climate Change "Serious" Problem"

Hear, hear Little georgie, you're quite the cut up.

[shadowknows69]

16. you've always said exactly what your headset tells you to. n/t

[natrat]

18. FUCK YOU BUSH

[maxsolomon]

19. fuel cells won't save us, president presenile dementia

where is the alternative fuel research?
where are the wind turbines?
where are the high speed rail lines?
where is your signature on the kyoto treaty?
where are the raise CAFE standards?

[leQ]

20. he wins HYPOCRITE OF THE WEEK award from us

[Megahurtz]

21. Oh for fucks sake.

Like we don't already have the solutions you greedy, money-hungry, oil drinking idiot!:grr:

[Robeson]

22. To Bush: WE DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING YOU SAY....

...your credibility = 0.

[The_Casual_Observer]

23. I believe that exxon/mobil is leading the research effort in the US

on this issue.

[Zorra]

24. Fuck that lying sack of shit. He is the world's biggest threat to the

environment.

[Javaman]

25. Wow, his insantiy runs deep, isn't this the same moron*..

that said that there wasn't a problem, only just a few short years ago????

Colossal jackass.

[Jacobin]

26. Oh, and he was VERY pissy about it, too

Heard a clip from him on NPR at lunch, and he was lick spittle pissy.

The very thought that Herr Bush* isn't concerned about global warming.....why it just infuriates him!!!!!! :eyes:

[Lisa]

31. "I is infuritated that folks thinks I is anti-environment!"

Or words to that effect.

Yeah, right!

[NotGivingUp]

27. I cannot stand that fucking asshole any longer!!!!!!!

[yorkiemommie1]

28. George W. Bush

BULLSHIT ARTIST

[gordianot]

29. Two years ago there was a Pentagon study that predicted dire consequences.

Possibility of flooding in the country of America's last ally. Guess Poodles have trouble treading water.

see link:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1153513,00.html

[rexcat]

30. Bush* is a lying sack of sh*t.

These f**king repukes just say anything they want to and then when it fits there need they deny what they previously said.

Bush*, Chaney and the rest of the maladministration have no shame.

[Ice4Clark]

32. Perhaps they could STOP funding projects like HAARP

for a starters if they want to stop global warming. Quit punching more holes in the ionosphere and playing with the weather. I know the AF is very gung ho to change the weather for war purposes. Just google on Air Force 2025 and reach their study they did and the chapter on weather. I have links if anyone's interested.

[Lisa]

33. Meanwhile he is cutting research funding, and threatening scientists

Remember when the White House ripped portions out of the EPA's global warming report? Or when Bush had Robert Watson (the IPCC guy) replaced?

Or this other LBN item here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1533165


This is like a guy who complains about the food in a restaurant -- after going into the kitchen, hassling the chefs, and crapping on the dessert cart.

No thanks to him that American scientists have been world leaders in detecting and modelling climate change and the potential future impacts. Meanwhile he is doing everything he can to obstruct this. The US researchers I've spoken with who are working in this area do NOT feel that Bush cares about the issues.

[robertpaulsen]

34. Oh yeah, "Serious" problem. Let Exxon-Mobil solve it.

Revealed: How Oil Giant Influenced Bush
White House sought advice from Exxon on Kyoto stance

by John Vidal

President's George Bush's decision not to sign the United States up to the Kyoto global warming treaty was partly a result of pressure from ExxonMobil, the world's most powerful oil company, and other industries, according to US State Department papers seen by the Guardian.

The documents, which emerged as Tony Blair visited the White House for discussions on climate change before next month's G8 meeting, reinforce widely-held suspicions of how close the company is to the administration and its role in helping to formulate US policy.

In briefing papers given before meetings to the US under-secretary of state, Paula Dobriansky, between 2001 and 2004, the administration is found thanking Exxon executives for the company's "active involvement" in helping to determine climate change policy, and also seeking its advice on what climate change policies the company might find acceptable.

Other papers suggest that Ms Dobriansky should sound out Exxon executives and other anti-Kyoto business groups on potential alternatives to Kyoto.

more...

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0608-02.htm

Just when I thought I couldn't get any more pissed...

:mad: