Global warming film lights fire under Congress (Inconvenient Truth)

[RamboLiberal]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/23/WARMING.TMP

Congress, it appears, is channeling Al Gore. After years of debating whether global warming was real or a hoax, the House and Senate staged six hearings this week on how the government should respond to climate change.

And the Bush administration, which has downplayed the threat of global warming during its six years in office, released a 244-page strategic report this week laying out plans to address the rapid warming of the planet.

Critics say the White House and the Republican-led Congress are not yet ready to take the politically difficult steps needed to combat global warming -- such as raising federal fuel efficiency standards or capping greenhouse gas emissions by electric utilities and other industries, as California did recently.

But the mounting scientific evidence that human activity is causing global temperatures to rise coupled with a growing public alarm -- fueled by former Vice President Gore's climate change documentary, "Inconvenient Truth," this summer -- has forced lawmakers to take up the issue.

"Even on Capitol Hill, we have reached the tipping point," said Philip Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust, an environmental group. "George Bush's 'just say no' policy on global warming is political history," Clapp said. "Every senator and member of the House knows that at midnight on the day George Bush leaves office, a new administration, whether it's Republican or Democratic, will be returning to the international negotiating table on global warming."

[Greeby]

1. And yet when he tried to rally support for Kyoto

They treated him like he was mad :eyes:

[CHIMO]

2. Aw

Shucks. Everyone knows man has dominion over the earth.

http://www.cbc.ca/photogallery/_world.html?dataPath=/photogallery/world/gallery_66/xml/gallery_66.xml

Tried to copy the photo but it wouldn't work. Quite impressive.

[Crunchy Frog]

3. This one?

[rodeodance]

4. at midnight------when Jr leaves___gotta love this one.

....."Even on Capitol Hill, we have reached the tipping point," said Philip Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust, an environmental group. "George Bush's 'just say no' policy on global warming is political history," Clapp said. "Every senator and member of the House knows that at midnight on the day George Bush leaves office, a new administration, whether it's Republican or Democratic, will be returning to the international negotiating table on global warming."

[rodeodance]

5. in the meantime the cowards rule!

[tanyev]

6. Why don't they just pretend he's leaving next week and get to work?

They could create their own reality that way.

[leesa]

7. Too funny. Why THAT would be adult-like, can't have that!