"Bush Set To Tackle Global Warming" - (Actual Headline!) - Boston Globe

[hatrack]

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WASHINGTON -- President Bush this week is prepared to unveil what his aides have billed as a bold new national strategy to confront global climate change and work toward energy independence, even as Democrats push their own, more aggressive approach to the issue. In previewing the State of the Union address the president will deliver tomorrow, administration officials have strongly hinted that Bush would outline steps the government will take to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, which most scientists believe contribute to global warming.

The White House has refused to discuss details in advance of the president's speech, though many in Congress and the energy industry expect it to include raising fuel-economy standards for automobiles, more support for renewable energy sources, and efforts to control emissions at utility plants and other big polluters.

The commitment to addressing global warming marks a shift for the White House, which critics say has consistently tried to undermine scientific evidence of the link between air pollution and disturbing trends in the environment. Still, White House officials point out that Bush is highly skeptical of mandatory, economy-wide caps on carbon dioxide emissions, citing the president's preference for market-based incentives as a solution to the problem.

That's not enough for many members of Congress, who argue that the time for voluntary programs has passed and that only swift, dramatic actions can avert catastrophic consequences. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi bluntly warned the president on Friday that lawmakers will act on global warming, with or without his help. "The science of global warming and its impact is overwhelming and unequivocal," said Pelosi, a California Democrat. "We want to work with President Bush on this important issue in a bipartisan way. But we cannot afford to wait."

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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/01/22/bush_set_to_tackle_global_warming/

[acmavm]

1. More support for renewable energy? The only support that

subject gets is he brings it up during ever SOTU speech and forgets it right afterwards.

[PATRICK]

2. Get Iran's oil

and become the Corporate States of Saudi America. Anything else is lies for the masses.

[Lerkfish]

3. lessee...human hybrids, Mars exploration, Hydrogen energy....how many

have come to pass?

they've just identified this year's lame distraction in the SOTU

[Mind_your_head]

4. Just like that manned "Mission to Mars" that * mentioned in one of his SOTU's

That's really an exciting program he initiated and still funds & supports, ain't it? :sarcasm:

[graywarrior]

5. Impeach the fucker(s). That'll stop the massive sucking of all natural life forces

and the spewing of filthy lies and bullshit coming from the White House.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. What's he gonna do ...

offer a tax break to people who install ice makers in their Hummers?

[ninkasi]

7. Probably

whatever his plan, it's going to involve giving huge tax breaks to big business. Cutting taxes for the rich and waging war are the only things the idiot knows. Well, there's a third trick he's mastered, and that's making himself unaccountable to anyone, and taking all of government's power for himself.

[depakid]

8. Amazing that the Boston Globe would be such suckers

Bush has lied about the issue since 2000 -and he's not about to stop.