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

To: jlallen who wrote (160833)	7/14/2001 3:53:13 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The press release includes multiple references to funding efforts to "sequester carbon dioxide." Why are they spending millions of dollares to "sequester carbon dioxide" if they dont already admit that an increase in carbon dioxide is a cause of what they refer to as "climate change"? Similarly, the press release talks about the debt for forest exchange program, and noting that "These forests sequester carbon dioxide and help mitigate climate change." Now if there wasn't a "climate change" problem, there would appear to be nothing to mitigate. Likewise, the press release states that "The Department of Energy will work in collaboration with nine energy companies from four nations to develop breakthrough technologies to reduce the cost of capturing carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and safely storing it underground." Why examine this technology if you have yet to conclude that industry-released carbon dioxide is a factor in "climate change"? Seems to me that calling these efforts "fighting" global warming, or "climate change" is an accurate description, that peels away the bureaucratese from the press release.