NEW Bush Report Says Global Warming Real Problem

[Bark Bark Bark]

...and we know that when THEY do an about-face like this, it's only because the problem has GOTTEN SO BAD IT CAN NO LONGER BE IGNORED--or giggled at by Rush Limbaugh.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37232-2004Aug26.html

(snippy snippy snip)

A Bush administration report suggests that evidence of global warming has begun to affect animal and plant populations in visible ways, and that rising temperatures in North America are due in part to human activity.

"The administration is finally admitting what the National Academy of Sciences and virtually every other scientific body has concluded: Climate change is happening now," Petsonk said. "It's time for the United States, the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluter, to step up to the plate and start cutting emissions."

The overview also concludes that based on studies of more than 1,700 species, "the balance of evidence" shows global warming effects are evident in plants and animals.

In response, Marburger said: "Climate change can have broad implications for our environment, and that is why the president has put forward an aggressive strategy to develop the best science and technology to address the issue."

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That last bit? Priceless. Put forward a strategy. Develop. Address. Put off. Piddle around. Sweep under the carpet. CONTINUE TO IGNORE.

*sigh*

That was a nice planet we had, once.

"...are we gonna move?"
--Baby Sinclair

[lapfog_1]

1. Don't worry, they HAVE a plan to deal with this.

And here it is:

"I don't know how many future generations we can count on until the
Lord returns." -- James Watt, to a Congressional committee in 1981,
quoted from "A Brief History of the Apocalypse" "I have a black, a
woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent." -- James Watt,
describing his staff to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on September 21,
1983

[bvar22]

2. Another bush* flip/flop?

The hits just keep on coming.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. The climate is changing when ...

The political climate is changing when even Bush has to acknowledge global climate change.