The Secret Campaign of President Bush's Administration To Deny Global Warming »
Posted by: RickyDawkins 1 year, 2 months ago341 Comments Report this Story
Earlier this year, the world's top climate scientists released a definitive report on global warming. It is now "unequivocal," they concluded, that the planet is heating up. Humans are directly responsible for the planetary heat wave, and only by taking immediate action can the world avert a climate catastrophe.
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RickyDawkins1 year, 2 months ago
You would think, in the wake of such stark and conclusive findings, that the White House would at least offer some small gesture to signal its concern about the impending crisis. It's not every day, after all, that the leading scientists from 120 nations come together and agree that the entire planet is about to go to hell. But the Bush administration has never felt bound by the reality-based nature of science - especially when it comes from international experts. So after the report became public in February, Vice President Dick Cheney took to the airwaves to offer his own, competing assessment of global warming.
"We're going to see a big debate on it going forward," Cheney told ABC News, about "the extent to which it is part of a normal cycle versus the extent to which it's caused by man." What we know today, he added, is "not enough to just sort of run out and try to slap together some policy that's going to 'solve' the problem."
-Rolling Stone
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RickyDawkins1 year, 2 months ago
Even former White House insiders were shocked by the vice president's see-no-evil performance. "I don't see how he can say that with a straight face anymore," Christine Todd Whitman, who clashed privately with Cheney over climate policy during her tenure as the administration's first chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, tells Rolling Stone. "The consequences of climate change are very real and very negative, but Cheney is not convinced of that. He believes - not quite as much as Senator James Inhofe, that this is a 'hoax' - but that the Earth has been changing since it was formed and to say that climate change is caused by humans is incorrect."
Cheney's statements were the latest move in the Bush administration's ongoing strategy to block federal action on global warming.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/1514...
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cosmogenium1 year, 2 months ago
Cheney still thinks Osama was sleeping with Saddam and that there are still weapons of mass destruction somewhere in the sand of the Iraqi desert. He's delusional at best, anti-humanity at worst. Now he wants to lie us into Iran as well. He should be impeached and imprisoned for too many crimes to count.
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jordan111 year, 2 months ago
during the G-8 conference, bush did propose a conference among the world's main polluters to address the issue. But that's bush's problem; he doesn't learn from past experience. It can't be left up to the polluters to monitor themselves. He did that in Texas, & the EPA had to step in, because the air was horribly polluted. There has to be independent oversight of business. And the only intelligent way to assess this, is by the evidence of science.
Certainly not by the ramblings of dick cheney. The meeting should be with scientists, who propose specific problems and solutions. Governments need to then give criteria to business, with mandates to clean up.
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liberals_belong_in_mental_institutions1 year, 2 months ago
God, Dorkins you are such a blithering idiot.
You're not this stupid. You're just plain old EVIL.
leftist/george soros influenced by and paid for leading scientists from 120 countries is closer to the truth.
The entire planet is NOT about to go to hell. That's just plain STUPID.
The planet has warmed an Earth shattering 6/10th of ONE degree in the last hundred years. OMG, were going to FRY!
We've only been keeping modern weather and temperature records for just over a hundred years.
Now there are scientists stating we're headed for global cooling.
Coffee's good for you - 9/4/99
Coffee is carcinogenic - 4/23/01
Coffe is full of antioxidants - 2/17/02
Coffee causes heart disease - 6/29/03
Coffee staves off alzheimers - 1/16/04
Coffee causes alzheimers - 5/24/05
Coffee is the female viagra - 7/14/06
Coffee is from another planet and has slowly been taking over Earth since being introduced into Europe by the arabs nearly a millenium ago...... - 6/23/07
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liberals_belong_in_mental_institutions1 year, 2 months ago
PLEASE............
When all is said and done global warming will be the biggest hoax the American people have ever fallen for.
Right up there with progressive liberalism.
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Goppy1 year, 2 months ago
You are so right!
Hey! I know you - mr. liberals belong yada yada yada!
You were in the same hall as me at Mocassin Bend Mental Health Institute in Tennessee! I remember you because you used to ramble on and on about coffee back then too! HA!
We all used to laugh at you there too - (behind your back of course - cause we knew all your hinges wernt screwed down tight.
Do you still have a house full of old newspapers with all them circles around storys about Juan Valdez bein a commie sympathizer?
You were one funny dude! ha ha ha. And look, you still are!! ha ha ha.
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RickyDawkins1 year, 2 months ago
I like coffee too, occasionally. Maybe you need to put a bit less SUGAR in yours?
Avoid trans-fats too. They are the Devil.
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MRCOFFEECAKE1 year, 2 months ago
Those weren't scientists.
Those were nutitionalists.. You silly name changer!
You know, if you spent half of the time you spend changing your name to actually read you would appear a liitle more intelligent..AND BELIEVE ME, there's PLENTY of room for you to appear thet way..You could drive a truck through it!!
Go eat somem trans fats and high fructose corn syrup..
THEY'RE GOOD FOR YOU!
AGAIN:
I'LL SEND IT TO YOU IN CARTOON CRAYON IF YOU NEED IT:
It is NOT about TEMPERATURE, it IS ABOUT CLIMATE..
Do you know the difference??..
because we can explain the difference if you need us too..
You see climate is the atmosphere: Clouds, ocean, weather(tornadoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, windstorms, ozone,
smog, haze, pollution levels, allergens) etc..
It is what is killing the whales, bees, making tune poisonous..change migratory patterns of birds..
Get it yet??
IT IS NOT THE TEMPERATURE!
Each time you talk about the temperature you make a fool of yourself. (but maybe that's your goal)!
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tiredofnonsense1 year, 2 months ago
"We're going to see a big debate on it going forward," Cheney told ABC News, about "the extent to which it is part of a normal cycle versus the extent to which it's caused by man." What we know today, he added, is "not enough to just sort of run out and try to slap together some policy that's going to 'solve' the problem."
Sounds like a call for reason over the political rhetoric of GW
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RickyDawkins1 year, 2 months ago
It is no secret that industry-connected appointees within the White House have worked actively to distort the findings of federal climate scientists, playing down the threat of climate change. But a new investigation by Rolling Stone reveals that those distortions were sanctioned at the highest levels of our government, in a policy formulated by the vice president, implemented by the White House Council on Environmental Quality and enforced by none other than Karl Rove. An examination of thousands of pages of internal documents that the White House has been forced to relinquish under the Freedom of Information Act - as well as interviews with more than a dozen current and former administration scientists and climate-policy officials - confirms that the White House has implemented an industry-formulated disinformation campaign designed to actively mislead the American public on global warming and to forestall limits on climate polluters.
-Rolling Stone
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liberals_belong_in_mental_institutions1 year, 2 months ago
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MRCOFFEECAKE1 year, 2 months ago
You mean the same Roling Stone that were amongst the first to break Watergate, oppose Vietnam and condemn OJ??
Yeah, they're useless...I'd rather watch Fox' version of what Paris Hilton had for dinner in rhe slammer!!
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ETproductions1 year, 2 months ago
Everything about this administration, its fiscal policy and its environmental policy; demonstrates its greed. Party now and screw the future generations.
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lvrofwolves1 year, 2 months ago
No surprises-they seem to have hidden agendas for everything, mostly in their own best self interests.
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liberals_belong_in_mental_institutions1 year, 2 months ago
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ETproductions1 year, 2 months ago
Wow! Just like REPUBLICANS.
Smear and fear, bluster and name-calling instead of logic.
Enough said...
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Goppy1 year, 2 months ago
You got kids?
Oh my!
We thought you made that up!
How could someone so full of hatred, and so eager to share their paranoid vision of the world, find someone to share a bed with?
I hope you dont call your kids A$$HOLES like you always called everyone else.
I hopes you know that kids, bein pretty smaht, usually go in the opposite direction of parents who are irrational in their arguments and in their vision.
If you do have kids, all you is doin is raisin democrats. Cause anyone close ato you can see your mindless blather and irrational state of mind is a indictment of conservative values.
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MRCOFFEECAKE1 year, 2 months ago
You will now be ignored by all credible posters!!
Come back with another name..Your taunts under this monicre will go unanswered. (a monicre is a name)
Too bad you don't spend some of that wasted time helping charity..But according to you they probably deserve to be sick and poor anyhow, so skrew them...Right?
Goodbye!!
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bubba21 year, 2 months ago
Yes, ET ... in short, this administration DOES NOT CARE AT ALL about the environment or about fiscal policy or about poverty or disease or hunger or crime or health care.
The only "fiscal policy" they care about is their own personal "fiscal gains". Everything this administration has done has been only for THEIR personal benefit and for the benefit of their corporate exec crony buddies.
They do not give a cr*p about the American people - the best example of that is their so-called tax cuts, their "war", and their do-nothing stance on the environment and poverty and health care.
As I heard someone on the radio say - this administration has done more damage to this country and to its people and to its government and to its finances than any other administration in our history. IF the country can EVER recover from their disastrous 'management', it will take years and years.
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quackpot1 year, 2 months ago
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liberals_belong_in_mental_institutions1 year, 2 months ago
quackpot the crackheadpot said:
Too bad the wealth does not "trickkle down" as fast as the sludge in our rivers, the crap in out air, and the rape of our envronment by Cheney's big buisness pals.
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Maybe you'll get lucky and they'll rape you next.
Probably otherwise, the only way you could get laid would be in a kennel or a prison.
Wait till we start drilling in the ANWR and start building refineries.
And the 9th circuit court of appeals is fired and sent packing so they can't hold it up for 20-30 years.
America is on to the left's BS.
And we're sick to death of it.
The GOP has shot themselves in the foot siding with commies like kennedy and graham and biden and schumer and durbin and murtha (and the rest), but there is NO WAY America is going to elect a race-baiting, gay mafia backing, soros worshipping democrat into the White House.
THOMPSON IN '08
and DEATH to progressive liberalism (a mental disorder).
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liberals_belong_in_mental_institutions1 year, 2 months ago
And you think Hillary will be any better or any different?
And NO I am not happy with jorge bush the mexican.
He will probably move to mexico and run for president.
But the fact is :
I voted for bush and GOT KERRY!
I just thank God that putz, crackpot, schmuck al-jazeera gore will never be President.
Oh, he'll run and put 'her thighness' the hildebeast out of the race and I'm thankful for that.
BUT FRED THOMPSON IS NEXT IN LINE AND YOU LIBS ARE UP $HIT CREEK COME JANUARY '09!
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Goppy1 year, 2 months ago
Now wait a minute liberals...
I heared that you were recommitted to Moccasin Bend before the 2004 election! Tahts what I heard through the MBMHI grapevine.
They said you got some military helmut and stuffed pampas grass into it and stalked Kerry yellin "Come on Kerry, fight me, fight me!' Whuts a matta Kerry, come on an d fight me - somebudy fight me. Why wont anybody fight me?"
Then you cried. And thats when they took you back to Moccasin. So did you really vote for Bush or are you just sayin that?
I voted for him. Come to think of it, all the mental patients voted for him.
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2sidestoeverything1 year, 2 months ago
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Neophile1 year, 2 months ago
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HomerJS491 year, 2 months ago
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liberals_belong_in_mental_institutions1 year, 2 months ago
Dorkins said:
The world deserves better too!
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If you're more concerned with the world than with America's affairs why don't you move somewhere else?
You could go to Tanzania with the "peace corps" and teach the kids to run up big phone bills...
or maybe france and teach the french how to speak with a lithhhhp.
I am an American!
It is high time America started taking care of it's own rather than pis$ away billions on people who hate us anyway and are only interested in our MONEY so they can build bombs to lob back at us!
Foreign aid to despotic countries never makes it to the people who need it . It goes to the despots running those countries!
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Searchbeam1 year, 2 months ago
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Daylight1 year, 2 months ago
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scriblerus11 year, 2 months ago
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liberals_belong_in_mental_institutions1 year, 2 months ago
Of course you and all the other progressive commies on this thread are completely INNOCENT, right?
subversion, sedition, treason.......
those are high crimes and most of you leftist aclu soros worshippers are guilty of one or more of these offenses.
Better shut up and count your blessings.
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liberals_belong_in_mental_institutions1 year, 2 months ago
sergebum said:
When Cheney's day comes, I hope he is shown no mercy!
He does not deserve any! He is a crook, a liar and a cheat!
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I suppose YOU are a SAINT?
Sounds like JEALOUSY to me.
Hey why don't you liberal bedwetters impeach bush?
Cheney would be President then. I know how much you would love that.
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denier11 year, 2 months ago
I must ask myself, Are people stupid or are they lying? Well some of them are undoubtedly stupid. Some of them are undoubtedly lying for personal gain. People like Al Gore.
Anybody with an Internet connection, a browser and five minutes to spare can find plenty of qualified scientist who dispute the "stark and conclusive findings" of man made global warming. Unfortunately, when these theories are debunked, and they will be, the publics confidence in threats to our environment based on actual science will be undermined.
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