Technology is key on global warming: Bush adviser - Reuters

Source: Reuters

Technology is key on global warming: Bush adviser
Tue Aug 14, 2007 6:07AM EDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday staked out its
position ahead of a climate change summit next month by endorsing
new technologies, paid for by rapid economic growth, as the way
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The United States opposes mandatory economy-wide caps to cut
emissions, saying this would crimp growth, but President George W.
Bush has invited leading countries to Washington on September
27-28 to work on a long-term goal plan to tackle global warming.

"The emerging consensus is that the solution to climate change is
the advancement of technology," James Connaughton, Bush's
senior environmental adviser, told reporters.

"And there is also consensus that you need growing economies to
pay for that technology. These are not a trade-off: if you don't
have a growing economy, you don't have the resources to pay for
the new technologies," he added.

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One wonders how a plan predicated on rapid economic growth will execute in an environment of rapid economic collapse...

Which means that we will get more economic output from the economy per unit of energy input. They will commit to progress in energy intensity, but not to overall reduction of energy use or reductions of pollution or carbon emissions.

Well, reduction of energy intensity is a natural function of a market economy. Successful businesses will always try to reduce energy use because energy is an expense. The bush government is not asking for anything more than what they are already doing.

We need much more than that.

Even more pathetic, disingenuous, intellectually dishonest horseshit from an administration which has pretty much perfected same.