EXCLUSIVE: Cheney on Global Warming

[helderheid]

Sydney, Australia, Feb. 23, 2007 — In an exclusive interview today, ABC's Jonathan Karl asked Vice President Dick Cheney about the topic of global warming, a subject Mr. Cheney has rarely addressed in the past. The vice president agreed that the earth is warming but, like President Bush, maintained there is debate over whether humans or natural cycles are the cause— a position that puts the administration at odds with the vast majority of climate scientists.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — made up of thousands of scientists from around the world — reported earlier this month they are more certain than ever that humans are heating earth's atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels. In Australia, for example, the IPCC said that rising ocean temperatures brought on by global warming could make Australia's Great Barrier Reef "functionally extinct" by 2050.

Here is a portion of the transcript from Jonathan Karl's conversation with Mr. Cheney:

JONATHAN KARL: I want to ask you about another issue that's been a subject of controversy here in Australia, global warming. Did you get a chance to see Al Gore's movie?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: I have not seen Al Gore's movie.

JONATHAN KARL: Doesn't surprise me.

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[mconvente]

1. Indeed doesn't surprise me either...

rat bastard cheney... ruining the world one day at a time...

[maddezmom]

2. excellent line from Jonathan Karl

:D

[helderheid]

3. Have to agree!

[EST]

4. I think it's a wonderful thing that cheney and company keep

on advocating stupidity.
As more and more people wake up to the truth, the shitheads will look stupider and stupider. At least we may have some well informed, intelligent humans to try to mitigate the coming disaster and attempt to clean up afterwards-if there is an afterwards.

[krispos42]

5. Well, here are our options:

1) Human activity causes global cooling, and the natural heating cycle is overpowering it.

2) Human activity causes neither global warming nor global cooling.

3) Human activity causes global warming, and is either adding to the natural heating cycle OR overpowering a natural cooling cycle.

Now, since carbon dioxide is a KNOWN greenhouse gas (Venus, anyone), then I'd say there is a damn good chance that all the carbon that's been buried for 50 million years and is being released into the atmostphere is doing something to the planet.

The fact that the Earth is warmer is something we must deal with, regardless of the cause. The 90% certainty that WE are making is much worse is good enough odds to do something about it.

Remember, Cheney is "Mr. One-Percent Doctrine".

"If there's a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. It's not about our analysis ... It's about our response."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_doctrine

So, if there's a 99% chance that Pakistani scientists are NOT helping Al-Qaeda, that is still reason to act.

Now, the recent global scientific report says that there is a 90% chance that global warming is caused by humans. That means there is only a 10% chance that global warming is NOT caused by humans.

According to the 1% Doctrine of Mr. Cheney, since 1% minimum is the threshold, and we have 90% certainty... then don't we have to "treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. It's not about our analysis ... It's about our response."

Game, set, match.