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Bush Seeks New Image on Global Warming
President Bush’s call on Friday for a new fund to reduce global warming fell flat with Europeans and environmentalists who say U.N.-mandated cuts in greenhouse gases are what’s needed.
The Europeans are being led by the nose towards complete socialism (or Islamism if you prefer. yes, I know, not exactly the same thing), and they want to yank us along with them? I don’t bloody well think so! They can bow at the alter of the Useless Numnuts, but I for one, pray there are enough people right here in the USA who strong enough to stand up to them. Why should we care what they think! And they think we’re arrogant? Pfft!
To show he meant business, Bush designated his treasury secretary to talk to other nations about getting worldwide contributions to the fund. The money would pay for clean-energy projects in poor countries.
Uh, just which nations does Bush believe is going to be ‘contributing’? And which ONE will be sucking the most out of the taxpayers pockets? Lemme think a minute here…… Ummmm…..oh yeah….THE SAME ONE THAT ALWAYS FOOTS THE BILL! US!
In his speech, Bush acknowledged that climate change is real and that human activity is a factor.
Yeah, the climate changes…..regularly. Human activity? Well, if all these third world countries would stop procreating like flippin’ rabbits, and didn’t have gubmints so corrupt, perhaps THEY wouldn’t be creating so much body heat?
“By setting this goal, we acknowledge there is a problem, and by setting this goal, we commit ourselves to doing something about it,” he said. “We share a common responsibility: to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while keeping our economies growing.”
By “we”, I guess he means the US taxpayers. When THEY figure out how to control the planet, let me know.
“There was lots of talk about mandatory caps,” said Yvo de Boer, the top U.N. climate official. “I don’t think it would have been realistic to expect at this first meeting to expect any country to change its position.”
He said he found Bush’s speech “encouraging because it indicates that the U.S. wants to develop this discussion among the major economies, get into the substance, including on the question of goals and the type of regime that’s appropriate, and then feed that into the larger U.N. process.”
No doubt, he saw $ signs. More money for the UN to mismanage.
Bush said his purpose was to begin setting a new worldwide goal for cutting carbon dioxide emissions after 2012 and to help developing nations pay for the changes that would be needed. The president said the reduction goal should be finished by next summer, along with ways to measure progress toward it.
I’d really like to know when the ‘world’ is going to start taking responsibility for themselves, and stop expecting everyone else to go along with their moonbat ideas. Throw all the money you want at a problem, you still have a very expensive problem.
Bush made clear, however, that he saw his talks as complementary to the U.N. negotiations over what will succeed the Kyoto treaty after 2012. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon held a summit Monday to grease the wheels for an agreement in December in Bali, Indonesia. Bush has seemed more sensitive lately to perceptions in other parts of the world that the U.S. government either does not take the phenomenon of global warming seriously _ or seriously enough.
What I don’t take seriously is the constant ’sky is falling’ BS. In the great scheme of things, we (humans) are totally insignificant.
“Congress needs to lead. The president is not giving us the leadership we need. Ultimately what we need are mandatory caps,” Krupp said. “No air pollution problem in the world has ever been solved without having legal limits.”
Not much ‘leadership’ in Congress either, unless you count the time that has been wasted. REAL leadership on that one! (insert sarcasm here)
Until recently, said Emil Salim, an economist and member of the Indonesian president’s council of advisers, Bush offered “no dialogue on the Kyoto Protocol whatsoever. This time, the members of the Kyoto Protocol are invited to discuss. So from that point of view, there is some improvement,” he said in an interview. “But on the other hand, I think it has more to do with the domestic politics, because you have election.”
What’s to talk about? Best I can figure it out, the Kyoto is nothing more than a piece of paper. I don’t see those who signed it doing much of anything, but putting more restraints on their people. Has there been less pollution in those countries? Do they breath easier? More freely?
I honestly think the Numnuts should spend more time worrying about the slaughter of innocents than whether or not the earth’s temperature rises a degree or two.
Cross posted: Reject the UN
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I saw this on the U.N. blog and I have gotta tell you, that’s one of your best works to date… Kudos…
(curtsy) I think I was having a temper tantrum. LOL