Do you think Bush's plan to fight global warming is a joke too?
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Any ''plan'' to fight global warming would have to be considered a joke. There's nothing we insignificant, pathetically small human beings can do to alter the Earth's natural cycles.There is a warming going on. Over time it will be followed by a cooling, which in turn will be followed by yet another warming and so on. There is nothing to panic about. The world as we know it will not end. We are not all going to perish as a result of this warming trend. Just about everything we understand to date has a pattern. This wave pattern occurs often in nature, including ocean waves, sound waves, and light waves.All of these can be graphed or illustrated with a sine wave, and as a result can then be monitored and analyzed. In the case of global temperature we just don't have enough accurate data yet to ''plot'' a pattern which would help us predict coming changes. Don't forget, the only accurate recorded data we have dates back only about 100 years, everything else is just theories and guesswork.
I would imagine if we had realistic meteorological data from more than just a hundred years we would see a pattern (or frequency), not unlike sound and light waves form.
Most of it is just the liberal's media stirring things up. For example, if the polar ice caps are melting then why after only forty years in Greenland did they find a squadron of air planes 250 feet below ice?
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Yes, anything from him is a joke.
Bush doesn't know what he's talking about half of the time..
but we can just hope..
He missed the boat, missed the ball, and set us back.
Too little too late.
Global warming, or climate change will be a hindrance to progress.
A galloping national debt with nobody around to pay it off will be Bush's albatross.
earth's well-being is also an issue important to America. And it's an issue that should be important to every nation in every part of our world.
The issue of climate change respects no border. Its effects cannot be reined in by an army nor advanced by any ideology. Climate change, with its potential to impact every corner of the world, is an issue that must be addressed by the world.
The Kyoto Protocol was fatally flawed in fundamental ways. But the process used to bring nations together to discuss our joint response to climate change is an important one. That is why I am today committing the United States of America to work within the United Nations framework and elsewhere to develop with our friends and allies and nations throughout the world an effective and science-based response to the issue of global warming.
My Cabinet-level working group has met regularly for the last 10 weeks to review the most recent, most accurate, and most comprehensive science. They have heard from scientists offering a wide spectrum of views. They have reviewed the facts, and they have listened to many theories and suppositions. The working group asked the highly-respected National Academy of Sciences to provide us the most up-to-date information about what is known and about what is not known on the science of climate change.
First, we know the surface temperature of the earth is warming. It has risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. There was a warming trend from the 1890s to the 1940s. Cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s. And then sharply rising temperatures from the 1970s to today.
There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat, and thus warm the earth because they prevent a significant proportion of infrared radiation from escaping into space. Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicate that the increase is due in large part to human activity.
It's almost like he heard about this yesterday...
No, he realizes he's so far down in the polls he is trying to raise America's opinion of himself. He got millions allotted for aids also this week.
wha..? He has a plan? Does that mean someone told him about global warming? I'll bet his oil buddies just hate that someone did that...
President Bush is a joke and anything he does is a joke. Actually, anything he does is based on faulty information and false personal philosophical beliefs. His grade average in college was less than a c minus, not because he was dumb but because his daddy was a big time alumni donor and that's what got his son through college. And that's the truth..look it up. Bush's plan is to be remembered in history and become wealthy.and that is the second truth.
Almost all of Bushs' policies recently have been an example of too little too late. That said, his taking this step is at least a gesture of good faith and a teeny step in the right direction.
Yes of course it is a joke and so are all the other ideas like a hydrogen powered car or using the food supply to make alcohol. The greens are well meaning but they aren't very bright. Its a mess all around the only winner is the corn supplier.
It's an absolute joke. Even though he's finally acknowledged that humans are primarily responsible for the recent global warming, he basically doesn't want to do anything about it.
His "plan" basically boils down to waiting for some miracle technology to pop out of nowhere that will solve all our energy problems. But we already have all the technology we need to get global warming under control, if the government would just require better efficiency from cars and put a price on carbon emissions, and take steps like that.
But Bush's "plan" is let the free market solve the global warming crisis. Yeah, that makes total sense. What a joke.
Yes I think Bush's plans for global warming is just an joke because Bush is one of those people that gose back on his word.
Almost every plan Bush/Cheney have for anything is much worse than a joke; it is deliberate premeditated sabotage, treason, mass , suppression, deception, corruption and robbery.
Please, quote me, Michael Couch
I don't think global warming is a joke, but I do think Bush is a joke.
Global warming is a huge problem & does need to be addressed.(by someone besides Bush so more will take this topic seriously)
I believe that so many people think global warming is a joke because it's coming from Bush...If someone else were talking about it, there would be more people getting involved & trying to make a difference.
We have been "green" long before all of this came out. Its just common sense to take care of what you've got.
bush sucks all the way around
Wait you mean he has a plan?
Maybe his buddies made enough money on everything else they have ruined.
That is why they have a so called plan.
Yes, of course. I mean, who doesn't?
Personally, I don't believe anything any politician says. They promise to do things and have many, many excuses later when ask why they didn't follow up on their promises.
their plan is to destroy all of the worlds indigenous forrests by passing a bill that promotes Ethanol,
the illuminati regards this planet as no more than a slave run farming colony to be sacked of all of its resources
The irony here is that the growing eagerness to slow climate change by using biofuels and planting millions of trees for carbon credits has resulted in new major causes of deforestation, say activists. And that is making climate change worse because deforestation puts far more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire world's fleet of cars, trucks, planes, trains and ships combined.
"Biofuels are rapidly becoming the main cause of deforestation in countries like Indonesia, Malaysia and Brazil," said Simone Lovera, managing coordinator of the Global Forest Coalition, an environmental NGO based in Asunción, Paraguay. "We call it 'deforestation diesel'," Lovera told IPS.
Oil from African palm trees is considered to be one of the best and cheapest sources of biodiesel and energy companies are investing billions into acquiring or developing oil-palm plantations in developing countries. Vast tracts of forest in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and many other countries have been cleared to grow oil palms. Oil palm has become the world's number one fruit crop, well ahead of bananas.
Biodiesel offers many environmental benefits over diesel from petroleum, including reductions in air pollutants, but the enormous global thirst means millions more hectares could be converted into monocultures of oil palm. Getting accurate numbers on how much forest is being lost is very difficult.
The FAO's State of the World's Forests 2007 released last week reports that globally, net forest loss is 20,000 hectares per day -- equivalent to an area twice the size of Paris. However, that number includes plantation forests, which masks the actual extent of tropical deforestation, about 40,000 hectares (ha) per day, says Matti Palo, a forest economics expert who is affiliated with the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) in Costa Rica.
"The half a million ha per year deforestation of Mexico is covered by the increase of forests in the U.S., for example," Palo told IPS.
National governments provide all the statistics, and countries like Canada do not produce anything reliable, he said. Canada has claimed no net change in its forests for 15 years despite being the largest producer of pulp and paper. "Canada has a moral responsibility to tell the rest of the world what kind of changes have taken place there," he said.
Plantation forests are nothing like natural or native forests. More akin to a field of maize, plantation forests are hostile environments to nearly every animal, bird and even insects. Such forests have been shown to have a negative impact on the water cycle because non-native, fast-growing trees use high volumes of water. Pesticides are also commonly used to suppress competing growth from other plants and to prevent disease outbreaks, also impacting water quality.
Plantation forests also offer very few employment opportunities, resulting in a net loss of jobs. "Plantation forests are a tremendous disaster for biodiversity and local people," Lovera said. Even if farmland or savanna are only used for oil palm or other plantations, it often forces the local people off the land and into nearby forests, including national parks, which they clear to grow crops, pasture animals and collect firewood. That has been the pattern with pulp and timber plantation forests in much of the world, says Lovera.
Ethanol is other major biofuel, which is made from maize, sugar cane or other crops. As prices for biofuels climb, more land is cleared to grow the crops. U.S. farmers are switching from soy to maize to meet the ethanol demand. That is having a knock on effect of pushing up soy prices, which is driving the conversion of the Amazon rainforest into soy, she says. Meanwhile rich countries are starting to plant trees to offset their emissions of carbon dioxide, called carbon sequestration. Most of this planting is taking place in the South in the form of plantations, which are just the latest threat to existing forests. "Europe's carbon credit market could be disastrous," Lovera said.
The multi-billion-euro European carbon market does not permit the use of reforestation projects for carbon credits. But there has been a tremendous surge in private companies offering such credits for tree planting projects. Very little of this money goes to small land holders, she says. Plantation forests also contain much less carbon, notes Palo, citing a recent study that showed carbon content of plantation forests in some Asian tropical countries was only 45 percent of that in the respective natural forests. Nor has the world community been able to properly account for the value of the enormous volumes of carbon stored in existing forests.
One recent estimate found that the northern Boreal forest provided 250 billion dollars a year in ecosystem services such as absorbing carbon emissions from the atmosphere and cleaning water. The good news is that deforestation, even in remote areas, is easily stopped. All it takes is access to some low-cost satellite imagery and governments that actually want to slow or halt deforestation. Costa Rica has nearly eliminated deforestation by making it illegal to convert forest into farmland, says Lovera.
Paraguay enacted similar laws in 2004, and then regularly checked satellite images of its forests, sending forestry officials and police to enforce the law where it was being violated. "Deforestation has been reduced by 85 percent in less than two years in the eastern part of the country," Lovera noted. The other part of the solution is to give control over forests to the local people. This community or model forest concept has proved to be sustainable in many parts of the world. India recently passed a bill returning the bulk of its forests back to local communities for management, she said.
However, economic interests pushing deforestation in countries like Brazil and Indonesia are so powerful, there may eventually be little natural forest left. "Governments are beginning to realize that their natural forests have enormous value left standing," Lovera said. "A moratorium or ban on deforestation is the only way to stop this."
This story is part of a series of features on sustainable development by IPS and IFEJ - International Federation of Environmental Journalists.
© 2007 IPS - Inter Press Service
Source: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/...
Bush made that statement because it was on the professionally edited document.
Let him put that in his own words to see if that will mean fighting global warming?
Why has his administration ignored the scientific evidence for global warming for such a long time?
I hope Bush has not denied any knowledge of global warming at the early stages of his government.
I hope the DOCUMENT also contains IMPLEMENTATION.
bush is a joke.
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