Bush says global warming 'serious problem'

[sabra]

http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/21409

Bush says global warming 'serious problem'

WASHINGTON, June 26 (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush, asked if he thinks global warming is a significant threat to the Earth, says he believes climate change is a serious problem.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Bush said, "There's a debate over whether (global warming) is manmade or naturally caused. We ought to get beyond that debate and start implementing the technologies necessary to enable us to achieve a couple of big objectives -- one, be good stewards of the environment; two, become less dependent on foreign sources of oil for economic reasons and for national security reasons."

Bush his administration wants the next generation to be able to drive cars not fueled by hydrogen. He also called for development of safe nuclear power.

"The truth of the matter is, if this country wants to get rid of its greenhouse gases we've got to have the nuclear power industry be vibrant and viable," said Bush. "And so I believe ... I've got a plan to be able to deal with greenhouse gases."

[Nickster]

1. Capt Obvious, late to the dance as usual. Easy to talk about it being a

problem, but it's actually hard work to DO something about it.

[proReality]

2. Yeah, it's an election year for sure. N/T

[hatrack]

56. Yup - file under "H" for "Hawaiian National Monument"

Just another bit of posing from the master of photo-op bullshit.

[IndependentVoice]

3. So...

I guess all the science is finally in? :sarcasm:

[Cleita]

4. "Safe, nuclear"? Sounds like an oxymoron to me, but not

surprising from the moron who is saying it.

[Teaser]

13. I have less problem with nuclear than fossil fuel.

In terms of prioritizing problems, subbing nuclear energy for fossil fuel until we transition to something better is workable.

[Lindacooks]

27. Nope.

There are far too many problems associated with nuclear; you know all of them so I'm not going to list them here.

Solar and wind (which are actually the same thing, since the sun creates the wind) are advanced enough now to be very viable options to fossil fuels. And if we had invested the amount of money poured into nuclear energy into solar instead, we'd most probably be free of fossil fuels now.

[Cleita]

36. Amen.

If Al Gore had been President I'm sure he would have used the budget surplus for these options. I cry everytime I think about what could have been.

[Cleita]

35. I live near a nuclear power plant and it's only as safe as the

crew maintaining it, and this is not counting natural disasters like earthquakes that could change the whole equation. We can explore renewable plant fuel and solar and wind energy. Between the three we probably wouldn't need either fossil fuel or nuclear energy.

[AndyA]

5. Yeah, it's a problem and Bush can look in the mirror to see the cause

All of a sudden this Johnny Come Lately President realizes global warming is a serious issue. Talk to your oil buddies and refinery buddies, Bush. Talk to the hyper wealthy industrialists who are getting a free ride at the expense of the environment.

Geez, if Bush got a clue it would be too late for him to do anything with it.

[krkaufman]

40. I doubt he gives a rip about the issue....

... aside from his pollsters telling him the public is beginning to care. So they have him toss out a few token comments for echoing through the M$M, and then sit back for another 2 years until new soundbites are needed.

[Hugin]

6. Could someone translate this for me please?

"Bush his administration wants the next generation to be able to drive cars not fueled by hydrogen"

What?

[IndependentVoice]

9. thats bush speak for

Wait till we find another market for my family to get into, then use that to fuel your car

[susanna]

61. Exactly. n/t

[Bush_MUST_Go]

12. But deep down he knows global warming is Clinton's fault. lol

[hatrack]

16. Don't worry - they won't be!

:evilgrin:

[krkaufman]

41. Misstated... point was.... "just gonna wait for hydrogen cars"

The purpose of Bush's push for hydrogen fuel cell as the answer is simply to buy the oil company's another decade of control. We could be moving off oil today, but focusing federal dollars on fuel cells will starve hybrids and alternative fuels of critical startup funding -- allowing oil to remain at crisis (and maximum profits) for the foreseeable future.

[Hugin]

46. Thanks for clearing that up...

Oh, I can believe that is what the "plan" is.

[IndependentVoice]

68. Its sad when Brazil can be energy independent, but we can't

BTW son't push for corn ethonal, its just as bad, sugar ethonal is the better one

[niyad]

7. for a split second, I thought he might actually have had a change of. .

well, whatever passes for thinking and feeling for him. but then I caught the part about nuclear (PLEASE learn how to pronounce this word, george) and his "plan to be able to deal with greenhouse gases." guess the nuke people are lined up to contribute to the fall campaigns.

[tinfoil tiaras]

8. Thank you Capitan Obvious!

...though he probably has no idea what the fuck global warming means. He probably thinks its a cheap plastic globe that's been sitting in the sun for too long and is now melting.

[unda cova brutha]

39. I think that * is a serious porblem

[krkaufman]

42. Yes, I wish the reporters would have asked him....

... given that he thinks global warming a serious issue, why he wasn't going to go see "An Inconvenient Truth"?

[tinfoil tiaras]

50. HAHA...that would have been awesome

"um...er...cuz it haz dat gi dat ran aginst me in it n i h8 him........"

[NMDemDist2]

10. yeah, he's got a "plan"

:scared:

a plan to open another nuclear fuel refining plant even though the ones we have now are running at 25% capacity... a plan to strip mine more coal and ruin more watersheds all over the county... a plan to jack natural gas prices even higher

oh yeah, he's got a *plan* all right! the same plan as it's always been. to screw us and funnel all the $$$$$ to his oil/gas/coal buddies

why am I not thrilled??

[dave29]

11. actually I believe he said it was a seriesly hugh problem

!!11!

[hatrack]

14. And what "debate" would that be, Commander Assclown?

Would that be the debate between those who believe we're fucked and those who believe we're extremely fucked?

Unbelievable.

[Bush_MUST_Go]

15. Check out Will Ferrell's skit

http://www.devilducky.com/media/38792/

[madmark]

47. haha, when did WF do this?

[Bush_MUST_Go]

55. Ferrell did that skit on a 2005 TBS special called "Earth to America"

http://www.tbs.com/shows/earthtoamerica/

[sinkingfeeling]

17. Why wasn't the next question to *, "And what has your administration

done to eliminate this problem, except red-line from all reports?"

[JudyM]

23. Well, he says he has *a plan* after all, that should take care of it. LOL

[Vidar]

18. When in doubt, lie in a different direction.

[Delphinus]

19. What gave him his first clue?

What was the "tipping point" for the boy king? Why is it NOW important enough to be dealt with? And, without a shadow of a doubt, it's not because he's worried about what's going to happen to the people of this planet, or the planet its/herself. There's something else going on and I wish I was canny enough to see it.

[niyad]

21. election 2006

[truthisfreedom]

20. what a terrible job of editing. what kind of sentence is this:

"Bush his administration wants the next generation to be able to drive cars not fueled by hydrogen."

what are they saying, anyway?

[Hugin]

29. My Microsoft Word says it's a perfectly acceptable grammatically correct..

sentence.

As to what it *means*... I asked above.

:shrug:

[truth2power]

32. I don't know why Word considers it correct. Even grammatically

it makes no sense.

"Bush his administration wants the next generation to be able to drive cars not fueled by hydrogen."

"The Bush administration wants..." or
"Bush wants..."

And, last I heard, he was pushing hydrogen-fueled cars. So, now he wants them not fueled...? Good grief! :eyes:

[stop the bleeding]

22. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
:crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy:
:argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh:
:grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr:
:nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke:




2 words f*ckstick preznit: Albert Gore

[stepnw1f]

24. Hear That Freepers Idiot Tools?!

[Botany]

25. Ah no .....

"There's a debate over whether (global warming) is manmade or naturally caused. ...."

All you have to do is look @ the ice layers in the arctic on antarctic ...... the increased CO 2 in the
atmosphere falls just in line with the industrial revolution and with a great uptick post WW II.

Next on President fuck-nutz's agenda; will you sail off the edge of the earth if you go out to
far in a boat.

[Neoma]

26. Sheesh.

He still sounds like a idiot.

[flordehinojos]

28. once again he doesn't believe in what he is saying,

he is just using what he hears as a means to get his own end: nuclear power.

[aquart]

30. Which he "plans" to do nothing about.

[coalition_unwilling]

31. What a shithead. (n/t)

[Javaman]

33. Me thinks moron* actaully watched Al Gore's film...

Sadly, he probably still had to have someone explain it to him, but I'm sure he got it on the 50th viewing.

FBI: mr simpson, when I say Hello mr. johnson, you say hi.

Homer: okay

FBI: Hello, mr. johnson.

Homer stares blankly off into space.

FBI: Mr. Simpson, when I say hello mr. Johnson, you say, Hi.

Homer: Check.

FBI: Hello, mr. johnson

Homer continues to stare off into space.

FBI: Mr. Simpson, when I say, hello mr johnson, and tap you on the foot, you say, hi.

Homer: right

FBI: Hello mr. johnson (taps homer on the foot)

Homer (whispers to marge) I think this guy is trying to pick me up.

FBI agent slaps himself on the forehead.

[Supersedeas]

34. what does 'foreign' oil have to do with addressing greenhouse gases?

[sakabatou]

37. Wait, didn't Pickles say it was a giant hoax?

Or something along those lines?

[krkaufman]

38. Yes, W, nucular is all you need to consider.

Thank you for your leadership; I don't know why I'd worried.

[katty]

43. scary talk: "I've got a plan"...oh! Stop right there bushie!!

[Sad4world]

44. Pathological liar

"not fueled by hydrogen" = "OIL"

"vibrant and viable" DU (depleted uranium used to make bombs) instead of greenhouse gases

[louis-t]

54. Freudian slip.

[w4rma]

45. In other words, his whole plan is to drill in Alaska and build nukes.

While defunding all other environmental objectives.

[DRoseDARs]

48. He isn't following the public polls, he's following the scientific data...

...condensed into a Bazooka Joe cartoon format for his convenience.

[txwhitedove]

49. Yep, saw that announcement today, and it made me sick....

that he delivered this 'news' like a sudden revelation to motivate us. Bush's slurry speech is getting worse and even more colloquial.

[bling bling]

51. The sooner this becomes a non-partisan issue, the better.

It's too important for the dems or repubs to either claim for their party or dispute on behalf of their party. The sooner they can stop bantering over it and get to work the better.

[MasonJar]

52. Is that why the Pugs are getting ready to gut every program?

Welcome to the real world, Stump.

[Donkeykick]

53. Maybe...

:wtf:he will quit messing around with real scientists and start to help them help us!:eyes:

[susu369]

57. So what exactly IS the plan dealing with gases...

"And so I believe ... I've got a plan to be able to deal with greenhouse gases."

Replace it with your own gases, bu$h?

[struggle4progress]

58. More stenography from the Moonies at UPI: apparently nobody ..

.. wants the story except the "independent" wingnuts at Political Gateway. "Bush's Secret Plan to End Global Warming" would have been a better headline.

[tlsmith1963]

59. I Heard a Funny Comment

Someone said that Bush would think that the solution to global warming would be for everyone to get more air conditioning. Well...actually it wouldn't be funny because I bet he really *would* be stupid enough to make a comment like that.:dunce:

Tammy

[Mr_Spock]

60. Is he doing methamphetamine now?

Why would he say that? Is he trying to help repukes not lose by suddenly seeming like he has some concept of what reality is?

[lumberjack_jeff]

62. Yeah, cuz we all know that ANWR oil doesn't create greenhouse gases.

And the plan for dealing with it? "Come 2008, I'm outta here and it's someone else's headache."

[madrchsod]

63. blah,blah,blah.....

who cares what he thinks or says. everything he says is blah,blah ,blah

[killbotfactory]

64. And like all other serious problems, he'll ignore it.

[BreweryYardRat]

65. Fucking idiot.

It takes five years for him to even acknowledge this?! :wtf:

[Amonester]

66. Yeah, hey? And maybe only because that 'new-old' adviser ...

the election parano-pugs got him may have told him that, in order for his little majesty's sorry a$$ having a small chance not to get impeached for all the crimes he and his VeePee have committed against the People in a few months, he should start 'listening' to polls?

Karl Porkie must have also told the blivet how much hard-werk it can be to skew November's vote with 38 percent ratings...

[JuniperLea]

67. "less dependent on foreign sources of oil"

Does that mean he'll stop illegal invasions of sovereign nations for oil?

[IndependentVoice]

69. oh of course not

we have to "stay the course"

[Amonester]

70. He's at that unconsequential 'small-lying-thingy' again, so...

who's to believe any sound-byte he ever issues is to be true (all-of-a-sudden?)?

[WhiteTara]

71. and he was committed to reducing CO2's

before the 2000 election, rendering Al Gore mute. Hence, Ralph Nadir's "no difference between the two". Good repuke, domestic CIA plant that he is; led the sheeple over the cliff.

[NastyDiaper]

72. Martian Nukes and Red herrings..

..I don't believe for a moment that this is a sincere in any way. The Bush Mars plan had more substance to it.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NastyDiaper/7

This is a diversion, intended to get us debating about nuclear power while he does nothing but subsadize, profit from and burn ever more oil.

[kylemacr]

73. This cracks me up

"The truth of the matter is, if this country wants to get rid of its greenhouse gases we've got to have the nuclear power industry be vibrant and viable," said Bush. "And so I believe ... I've got a plan to be able to deal with greenhouse gases."

I hope he realizes that we can't get rid of the greenhouse gasses... if we do, we'd all die.