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

To: Zoltan! who wrote (226789)	2/13/2002 2:05:48 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 769670

Bush to unveil climate initiative Thursday spacedaily.com \| 13 Feb 02 \| AFP spacedaily.com SPACE WIRE Bush to unveil climate initiative Thursday WASHINGTON (AFP) Feb 13, 2002 US President George W. Bush on Thursday will unveil his alternative to the Kyoto climate change treaty he rejected early last year, the White House said Wednesday. "The president will be making an announcement tomorrow about a new approach, a new policy, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions throughout the world, led by the United States," said Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer. Bush's decision to declare the Kyoto Protocol dead early last year roiled a large number of nations, including many key US allies, even as the administration said it would offer its own proposals. The president's announcement will come two days before he heads off on a week-long Asia swing that will take him to Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing. An annual report by the president's Council of Economic Advisers released last week gave a foretaste of how top US officials hope to replace the global warming accord Bush declared dead early in his term. "The current uncertainty surrounding climate change implies that a realistic policy should involve a gradual, measured response, not a risky, precipitous one," the advisers said in their report. "The uncertainty surrounding the science of climate change suggests that some modesty is in order. We need to recognize that it makes sense to discuss slowing emission growth before trying to stop and eventually reverse it," they said. The report suggests that a "modest, near-term goal to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions" could take many forms. "A greenhouse gas emission target could be indexed to economic output or other measures of economic activity. Or one could express the goal in terms of greenhouse gas emission intensity, that is, the amount of emissions per unit of economic activity," according to the document. "Both these ideas describe targets that are flexible in the face of economic growth, encouraging reductions without threatening the economy," the advisers wrote. "The president continues to view (the accord) as a treaty that would harm America economically and a treaty that is flawed because it exempts so many nations around the world," Fleischer said last week. But "the president is committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in doing so, without harming the economy, in doing so in an manner that includes the nations of the world as opposed to exempting them," the spokesman said.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (226789)	2/13/2002 3:08:40 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Re your statement "You have no idea what you're talking about." >>> Er, I beg to differ.... "And you forgot to add the Court of Appeals REMOVED that judge for being blatantly prejudiced." >>> Er, no they didn't. They removed him for 'giving the appearance of bias' (by granting press interviews during the course of the trial), they never concluded that he WAS biased... As further proof of the pudding they unanimously upheld 7 counts of his ruling... so although they slapped him down for appearance, they also upheld the findings of fact. "I assume, since your knowledge base is so limited, that you don't know that the DOJ spent most of two decades suing IBM - to no constructive purpose. These things can go on forever." >>> Of course I know the background (also the much longer AT&T case, and many others). I go back longer than you may think. "Considering the horrific effect the politically-induced Microsoft case was having on the markets" >>> Prove it. Evidence is mixed for any short-term effect, and long-term effects are likely to weigh in the opposite direction. "the DOJ acted wisely in the interests of the national economy by settling and helping keep the greedy predators from having their way." >>> LOL!!!!!!! That's a chuckle! The 'greedy predators' are EXACTLY having their way! Subverting the Free Market, extracting monopoly profits from consumers, and illegally wielding their two monopolies to crush emerging competition in one market sector after another. I'm happy to stand with Free Markets and Capitalism on this one.