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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (904788)	12/3/2015 2:42:32 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576687

That's not suspect at all....

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (904788)	12/3/2015 2:47:57 PM
From: zax	Respond to of 1576687

Reagan, Bush 41 memos reveal sharp contrast with today’s GOP on climate and the environment By Joby Warrick December 3 washingtonpost.com President-elect Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush after their visit to Capitol Hill in 1980. (James K.W. Atherton/The Washington Post) The memos, stamped “confidential” and kept under wraps for years, portray a White House eager to assert U.S. leadership on climate change. Global warming will have “profound consequences,” one document warns, and the United States “cannot wait” until all scientific questions are resolved before taking action. The source of the memos: Not the Obama White House, but policy advisers to former president George H. W. Bush. The memos were among several formerly classified documents from the Bush and Reagan administrations obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and released on Wednesday by the National Security Archive. The documents portray senior officials in the two Republican administrations pressing for an aggressive response to international environmental issues of the day — including, during Bush’s term, climate change. Memorandum by Frederick M. Bernthal – Feb. 9, 1989 Memorandum – Feb. 15, 1989 by browncm2 Memorandum – Feb. 27, 1989 The assertive posture contrasts with the positions taken this week by leading Republican presidential contenders, several of whom publicly mocked Obama’s efforts to secure an international climate treaty in Paris. The GOP-controlled House voted Tuesday to block the administration’s signature regulation to cut greenhouse-gas pollution from U.S. power plants. The 11 memos released on Wednesday provide snapshots of internal White House deliberations on key environmental issues during the 1980s. Some shed light on the debate over the 1989 Montreal Protocol, which phased out production of industrial chemicals linked to the destruction of the Earth’s ozone layer. A 1987 memo shows Reagan White House officials pushing back against members of Reagan’s own cabinet in arguing for a strong treaty safeguarding the thin band of atmospheric ozone that protects the Earth from harmful radiation from space. “Many regard this issue as the most important priority on the global environmental agenda,” John D. Negroponte, then a State Department assistant secretary for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, writes to then-Secretary of State George Shultz. </snip> Rest here: washingtonpost.com