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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush
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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (13137)6/5/2002 3:55:58 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (1) of 93284
 
Remember Reagan and his "killer trees" proclamation, now we have doofy pretending he knows anything about the environment other than "we need rain in Texas".

Bush dismisses EPA report on climate change
June 4, 2002 Posted: 6:36 PM EDT (2236 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush on Tuesday dismissed a report put out by his administration warning that climate changes caused by human activity could have significant effects on the environment.

The Environmental Protection Agency compiled the report for the United Nations from information provided by its own climate experts and those of five other agencies. It puts most of the blame for recent global warming on the burning of fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into the environment.

But it suggests nothing beyond voluntary action by industry for dealing with the so-called "greenhouse" gases, the program Bush advocated in rejecting a 1997 treaty negotiated in Kyoto, Japan, calling for mandatory reduction of those gases by industrial nations.

"I read the report put out by the bureaucracy," Bush said Tuesday when asked about the EPA report, adding that he still opposes the Kyoto treaty.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the report was the result of work by staff at the agencies and the White House's Council on Environmental Quality, whose chairman was appointed by Bush to serve as his principal environmental policy adviser.

European Union countries formally signed the Kyoto Protocol on Friday. Japan ratified the international accord Tuesday and urged the United States and other countries to join efforts to fight global warming by cutting emissions of heat-trapping gases.

The ratification by Japan and the 15 EU countries at the headquarters of the United Nations represented a major step toward putting the treaty into force. But the Bush administration favors a climate plan with voluntary measures to slow the rate of growth in gas emissions but allow them to continue to rise.

McClellan said the administration remains convinced the president's plan is the best path. He pointed to language in the report acknowledging "considerable uncertainty in current understanding of how climate varies naturally."

And he said Bush's plan will "significantly reduce the growth of greenhouse gas emissions" while investing in new science and technology to curb them. Bush has proposed spending $4.5 billion on climate change science and technology.
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