global warming

[debeest]

Heh heh heh. Every time I think I'm done with this thread, I get sucked back into it. Today's San Francisco Chronicle headline: "Bush derides his EPA's report blaming people for warming."

" 'I read the report put out by the bureaucracy,' Bush said dismissively...adding that he still opposes the Kyoto treaty."

"Japan ratified the international accord Tuesday...."

"European Union countries formally signed the Kyoto Protocol on Friday."

"Christopher Horner, a lawyer in Washington and senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative research group, said Tuesday that Bush distanced himself from the report 'because of concern from the right....' "

So much for my argument that even Bush can't keep dismissing the issue. And so much for Straybow's question as to why other nations aren't ratifying the treaty. And so much for the notion that Bush does anything to appease anyone but the right.

Good night, all.

[Scouse Gits]

Found them ...
Now who's going to get in the red wine?

SG[1]

[MrWhereItsAt]

It does make for an entertainment to be beat, doesn't it SG?

[Campo]

'I read the report put out by the bureaucracy,' Bush said dismissively

No way! It's way too long for Bush to have read. I've heard his own staff say that he doesn't like to read reports, memos, etc. They keep them to under one page and use verbal briefings.

He may have read a summary of the report, but I doubt very much he read the actual report.

On-topic question: I don't suppose there's any way to automate a couple engineers to concentrate on polllution cleanup. I thought that was supposed to be the priority, but I've had them start irrigating or mining even when pollution exists.

[Straybow]

I don't think any number of Solar Plants will reverse the Civ2 gw clock. Anybody played a game out past 2000 to see what happens?

Yes, that does end some anti-Kyoto rhetoric. Of course, we'll see how zealously each nation in the EU enacts the provisions and enforces the acts. SGs, what sentiment prevails in Britain, jolly curmudgeon of the EU?

[shameless ethnic jab] MrWhereItsAt, you got a popcorn smilie from an Italian gaming site but no red wine smilie?? [/jab]

I don't think red wine goes with popcorn… a dry Reisling would do better. A matter of taste, I s'pose.

[Campo]

I don't think red wine goes with popcorn… a dry Reisling would do better. A matter of taste, I s'pose.

You people are too cultured. The only drink that goes with popcorn is beer.

[TCO]

Looks like Christy needs to get the rogues at EPA under control...

[Marquis de Sodaq]

Originally posted by Campo
No way! It's way too long for Bush to have read.

Indeed, he admitted on the campaign trail that he didn't have the patience to read books, only newspapers and magazines. And probably only the photo captions at that... I can hardly imagine him sitting thru a volume of bureaubabble.


(Bush "reading" official documents)

[Straybow]

Sorry, Campo, I don't drink beer; stinks and tastes bad, especially American beers. If refraining from drinking something that smells like urine is too cultured I guess I'm guilty.

It seems the Gits are enamoured of the red, cheaper the better. I could ask my bro, an afficianado of sorts, I don't think he'd find any wine recommendation for popcorn. It's almost as thought the thought never occured to the guide writers (imagine that).

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I don't fault Bush for being disinterested in books or major EPA reports. Look at the crap on the NY Times Best Seller List. I certainly wouldn't consider an EPA report a page-turner. Everyone on Capitol Hill, every news anchor, and 90% of the talking head rental-experts all depend on staffers to read stuff like that.

Don't forget that Christine Whitman is the token Fiscal Conservative Social Liberal, probably the most PC of any major appointee. Should I be surprised if she buys the Chicken Little angle on gw? She isn't there because she is a climatologist or toxicologist, and I doubt she spends much time reading science journals. Civil service staff did the reading, consulted with experts, and wrote that report. Nobody knows where they are coming from politically, scientifically, etc, and they are essentially unaccountable.

(Anybody here reading official documents)

[TCO]

Yeah but political appointees should watch out for political issues. Christy dropped the ball.

[Straybow]

Plenty of thinking people (as on this thread) just don't "get it." Of course she'll publish the report without a cross-cabinet review. Confronted with the mountain of evidence why does anyone not believe that eeeeevil corporations and conspicuous consumption are the cause?

[TCO]

What good is a political hack if they can't do a simple thing like supress an adverse report....

[Scouse Gits]

Ahhh ....


SG[1]

[Straybow]

A weekend supply?

[La Fayette]

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