Bush just briefed on global warming report, spokesman says nandotimes.com
[ More confirmation that it's all a joke, when the Friends of Cheney are involved. Or maybe it's just "common sense". No point actually reading the science at any rate. ]
White House press secretary Ari Fleischer fessed up: President Bush didn't actually read that 268-page Environmental Protection Agency report on climate change, even if he said he did.
The president's spokesman then joked that his frankness might cost him his job.
"I've enjoyed working here, thank you," Fleischer said.
Fleischer was asked Monday at his daily White House briefing about Bush's comments that he'd read the report.
"Whenever presidents say they read it, you can read that to be he was briefed," Fleischer said, producing laughter.
The EPA report, submitted to the United Nations, was the first by the Bush administration to mostly blame human activity for global warming - even while acknowledging some lingering scientific uncertainties.
The White House favors a response to global warming that relies on increased spending on science and technology and on voluntary, not mandatory, measures to slow the rate of growth in gas emissions.
When Bush was asked about it last week, he dismissively remarked: "I read the report put out by the bureaucracy." |
