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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (151393)	6/7/2001 10:09:22 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Tom can counter these guys by calling them morons. It is his own personal form of the scientific method. He is a great engineer you know. He stands firmly with Rush on this, and uses his same methods of name calling and ridicule whenever he sees something he doesn't agree with... A National Academy of Sciences study, commissioned by the White House in advance of the talks, says a leading cause is emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels. But the academy was not asked for policy recommendations, and it made none. Nonetheless, Bush's critics said it would put new pressure on him when he meets June 14-15 with European Union leaders in Gothenburg, Sweden, where he hopes to present an alternative to the Kyoto global-warming agreement that he denounced in March. Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Nebraska, a major participant in the debate on global warming, said the academy's report to Bush on Wednesday "provides us with a basis to move forward with an alternative" global warming strategy. Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, who has been outspoken on the environment, said the academy report was unnecessary and "underscores the lack of leadership" by Bush on global warming, although it also puts needed pressure on his administration to take action. "The science on this has been strong enough that presidents and foreign ministers of other countries have moved on this for years," Kerry said. Real and particularly strong Many Europeans protested vigorously after Bush, citing looming energy shortages, in March reversed a campaign promise to limit carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. But the academy's 24-page assessment based on previous studies on climate change says, "The primary source, fossil fuel burning, has released roughly twice as much carbon dioxide as would be required to account for the observed increase" in temperature. It also blames global warming on other so-called greenhouse gases directly related to human activity: methane, ozone, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons. "Despite the uncertainties, there is general agreement that the observed warming is real and particularly strong within the past 20 years," the report says. "Global warming could well have serious adverse societal and ecological impacts by the end of this century." By 2100, temperatures are expected to increase between 2.5 degrees and 10.4 degrees above those of 1990. Global warming is likely to have the greatest effect in semiarid regions such as the farm-rich Great Plains in the United States, the report says. Two senior Bush advisers -- John Bridgeland, who oversees domestic policy, and Gary Edson, an economist -- wrote to the academy May 11 asking for help with "identifying the areas in the science of climate change where there are the greatest certainties and uncertainties." cnn.com Del