This is all we have now, but when it becomes available, I will post the entire thing:
http://algore2008.net/"Unfortunately we have also seen over the last few years a
decision on the part of the Bush White House to withdraw from
the global process by which this crisis is being confronted.
President Bush has instead directed the nation's attention and
resources toward false crises while refusing to acknowledge a
real crisis that is unfolding right before our eyes..."
"...Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq and the alleged need for
privatizing Social Security are examples of false crises. But
here's a real crisis staring him in the face that desperately
needs leadership from the President of the United States and his
financial supporters in the oil and coal industry don't want him
to acknowledge the reality of the crisis so he pretends that it
doesn't exist. And he relies on individuals who are pretty much
- their relation - the people he relies on relate to the
scientific community pretty much the way that phony reporter
related to the White House Press Corp..."
"The Kyoto Treaty formally takes effect tomorrow and it marks
the beginning of the world's first legally binding effort to
deal with the climate crisis. It is an historic event. It will
be the first of many efforts that will follow Kyoto, all of
which will build on Kyoto.
It is unfortunate that the United States has abdicated its
responsibility to join in leading this effort and I hope that
the Bush White House will rejoin the coalition of the willing
and confront this issue.
During the seven years since Kyoto was first addressed, we have
learned a great deal. First, we have learned that the scientific
evidence for the climate crisis is even stronger than was known
seven years ago. A recent paper in Science, for example,
examined every single peer reviewed scientific journal article
from 1993 to 2003 that contained the phrase "global climate
change". Of the 928 articles that used that phrase, not a single
one disagreed with the consensus view that current climate
change is caused by human activity -- not a single one. There
have been faux controversies created by other articles but not
any peer reviewed scientific article..."
"During the last seven years we have also learned that the
solutions to global warming will be cheaper and easier than was
thought when Kyoto was first drafted. A lot of major companies
including Intel, DuPont, BP, Alcoa, and others have reported
cost savings totaling billions of dollars as a result of
programs to reduce heat trapping gases. Technologies for
improving the efficiency of coal combustion have taken big
strides forward as have technologies for capturing and storing
heat-trapping gases offering some new hope for using plentiful
resources without worsening the climate crisis..."
"Because the US has abdicated national leadership California and
states in the Northeast have filled the leadership vacuum and
have taken steps on their own. It is vitally important that our
federal system be allowed to operate in confronting this crisis.
It takes a moral courage to attack a real crisis and this
current administration has failed to demonstrate moral courage
and has failed to confront this real crisis. But the problem is
so vast that there is a great need for leadership from other
quarters such as from California and the Northeast compact
states and I applaud them and applaud the selected companies
that are providing leadership in confronting this crisis..."
"Now can the protocol be effective without US participation?
Eventually the US must participate. All multi-national companies
located - based inside the United States will have to comply
with the Treaty that takes effect tomorrow with respect to their
operations in 141 different countries and 34 industrialized
countries. The United States and Australia are really the only
industrialized countries in the entire world that are not a
party to this treaty.
Companies based in the US already have to face tougher
environmental restrictions in China than they do in the United
States and this process is going to accelerate and so the
dynamic created will eventually lead our country to join this
process. It will start to be effective even without US
participation but it will only become truly effective when the
provisions are toughened and when the US does join the
process..."
"There is with the Bush Administration an unreality bubble that
will burst. The rest of the world is beginning as of tomorrow,
for the first time in a legally binding way, beginning to
confront the reality of the climate crisis. By choosing to stick
his head in the sand the Bush Administration not only
embarrasses the country when the world expects leadership from
the US but it also puts our economy at risk by encouraging
illusory decision making.
The rest of the world is going to begin to constrain carbon
emissions and those businesses that are lulled into a false
sense that there is no problem and they don't have to take steps
to solve the problem are going to find themselves facing much
tougher competition in the global marketplace from competitors
who adapt to the emerging new reality that the rest of the world
begins to embrace tomorrow..."
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