Bush set for climate change U-turn

[SHRED]

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Okay...is this more than an attempt to salvage some shred of a "legacy"?
I know it is way too late for that...but WTF?

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Bush set for climate change U-turn

Downing Street says that belated US recognition of global warming could lead to a post-Kyoto agreement on curbing emissions

Gaby Hinsliff, Juliette Jowit and Paul Harris
Sunday January 14, 2007
The Observer

George Bush is preparing to make a historic shift in his position on global warming when he makes his State of the Union speech later this month, say senior Downing Street officials.

Tony Blair hopes that the new stance by the United States will lead to a breakthrough in international talks on climate change and that the outlines of a successor treaty to the Kyoto agreement, the deal to curb emissions of greenhouse gases which expires in 2012, could now be thrashed out at the G8 summit in June.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1989997,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12

[NMDemDist2]

1. good! every little bit helps and chimpco sees the writing on the Congressional walls n/t

[hatrack]

2. The Chimp will paint himself green, and won't fund a damned thing

He'll hoot and hurl organic bananas at Congress, and everybody will cheer, and six months later the whole thing will be forgotten.

Oh, and I'll bet there will be lots and lots of talk of technology and maybe some voluntary programs, and probably some more studies. This administration really likes studies, as you know.

[tridim]

4. Don't forget the "faith based" technology that he's sure to fund. n/t

[tularetom]

3. His puppet masters have decided that their long term interests

are dependent on their customers being able to breathe in the future.

[FredStembottom]

6. that waaaaay too farsighted for them, even now.

(But I hope you are right!):thumbsup:

It would echo the co-operation FDR got from the "captains of industry" once the depression was dire enough to dampen sales enough. Their walnut-sized brains FINALLY got the connection between low sales and the increasing inability of of people to buy stuff.:think:

[tanyev]

5. So now they call it a "shift"?

[FredStembottom]

8. LOL!

How about a "shift-flop"?:crazy:

[Warren Stupidity]

7. This would be the other half of the U turn he made after 01.

He ran initially on some sort of bullshit environmentalist position, quickly discarded after his selection and installation. I do not believe for one minute that Dumbass intends to do anything meaningful about global warming. The elites that he represents appear to have decided to deal with global warming and peak oil by letting things take their course, i.e. a massive planetary die off that will include humans among the victims.

[subterranean]

9. The end of the article is less optimistic

...another source close to the negotiations warned that Bush had previously appeared to give ground on climate change, only to fail to make real concessions. The best hope could lie with a post-Kyoto deal for 2009, the source said - by which time Bush will be out of office.

It also mentions that in last year's SOTU address he talked about the need to break our addiction to oil (remember that?), but then never said another word about it. This "new position" on global warming will be no different. Any significant proposals he makes will be "clarified" the next day and that will be the end of it.