Feeling the Heat

[kalian]

http://www.motherjones.com/news/dailymojo/2004/02/02_806.html

The Bush administration -- infamously, ludicrously -- remains a holdout on climate change. Blithely ignoring the near-universal scientific consensus that global warming is real, dangerous, and largely the product of human activity, the White House proceeds as if it didn't even exist.

The past few weeks have brought reason to hope this might change. First came a leaked report out of the Pentagon assessing the potential implications of climate change on U.S. national security. (Conclusion: not good.) Then came a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, endorsed by a Who's Who of Nobel prize-winners and big-name scientists, that charged the Bush administration with junking science it doesn't like and cherry-picking the findings most congenial to its (business-friendly) designs -- on climate change as on other topics. One can only hope that the first of these reports will scare -- and the second, shame -- the administration into taking responsible action on climate change.

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Scary report...

[Demeter]

1. Since Bush Doesn't Listen to Anyone Who Disagrees

Why be surprised? He doesn't listen to scientists, economists, teachers, lawyers, Americans, etc.

To be on the short list of people he does listen to, one has to be either a complete scoundrel, a prostitute, or more devious and deceitful than James Bond, Judas Iscariot, and the Devil himself.

[donhakman]

2. One thing is for sure...

He won't read it in the newspaper