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

To: tejek who wrote (357308)	2/11/2003 11:08:29 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

My point Tejek, is that the CO2 that the United States emits, is roughly equivalent to its share of the worlds GDP - which is considerably larger than the EU. Europe's lack of economic growth during the 90's helps explain how their CO2 emissions grew less than the U.S. re:" I see......right, its okay to pollute four times your population so long as you have a GDP of $10 billion. Good point....NOT!" My data does not mask the recession of 2001, clearly the data shows that U.S. growth was sluggish for the year 2001. Further, the recession began in the first quarter of 2001 - Q1, Q2, and Q3 of 2001 all experienced negative GDP growth. The first quarter of 2001 did not have a "large spurt" as you wrote; rather the nation was probably entering recession before or within days of the Bush (43) being sworn in as President. re:"Wrong, champ.....your data masks a large GDP spurt in the first quarter of 2001 followed by declining GDP for the year.." Once again, the Earth, Mars, and Pluto are all experiencing planetary warming. Doesn't this suggest, that there might be something more going on in the Solar System to explain global warming (like the Sun's output), than just CO2 emissions? re:"Yes, I heard the Russians had set up coal grinding plants on Venus and the Chinese are refining oil on Mars. We're stinking up the whole solar system!" Since I am not overly worried about CO2 emissions, I don't blame the Clinton Administration for the fact that, greenhouse emissions from the U.S., increased every year of his Administration. Greenhouse emissions seems to be your worry. I just thought that if you were going to bitch and moan about it, you could at least blame the correct Administration. re:"Oh, I see.......when all else fails, blame it on Clinton."