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

To: DavesM who wrote (357344)	2/11/2003 11:51:07 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| 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. Not according to this article: cbsnews.com 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. That's right......it was smaller than a spurt......1.3% growth in the first quarter of 2001, according to the article above. The point is that CO2 declines in 2001 were accompanied by slowing US growth and not by some magical formula adminstered by the Bush administration. But more importantly, the US is the world's biggest polluter and doesn't need to be ducking its responsibilities as Mr. Bush would have us do. 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? And what was your source for this information.....the solar system edition for the National Review? Strangely enough, Mr. Bush must not get that edition because after his ducking of the signing of the Kyoto treaty, his administration now admits that global warming is a problem and we need to do something about our contributions to the problem. However, I think he is leaving it to the next administration to handle. 1 year, ten months and counting............