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More lies from the head slimeball:
Science matters: Bush's promises, promises
By David Suzuki
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It sounded almost too good to be true, and it was. After showing early signs that his administration agreed with the importance of slowing global warming, President Bush has reversed his course and broken campaign pledges in the process.
During his campaign, Bush pledged to support "mandatory reduction targets" of carbon dioxide from power plants. And early in March, Christie Whitman, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, fleshed out that promise. On CNN, she admitted that the "science is good on global warming" and added that carbon dioxide reductions were "an important step to take."
But just last week President Bush changed his mind after heavy lobbying from conservative Republicans and the oil and coal industries. Now, the president says that he made an error in his original pledge. White House spokesman Scott McClellen told the New York Times that: "CO2 (carbon dioxide) should not have been included as a pollutant during the campaign. It was a mistake."
The real mistake was for Bush to break his promise. The world's most respected climate scientists have agreed that without taking steps to reduce greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, the Earth will heat up by between 1.4 and 5.8 degrees Celsius in this century. Klaus Töpfer, head of the United Nations Environment Programne, calls this increase "potentially devastating."
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