The Bush Climate Change Speech Drinking Game!! Play Today At 2:45 EDT!!!

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If you’re playing at home, we suggest making this a drinking game, because, well, you’re at home at 2:45 on a Wednesday afternoon. Drinking at work, however, may qualify as reason for termination, and we don’t want anyone getting fired. So if you’re stuck at the office, we suggest that you and your colleagues use these following categories to create a Bush Bingo game. It’s guaranteed to liven up the day, especially if betting is involved.

Your categories for today’s speech begin after the jump. We’ll have a full recap later today:

Level 1: One sip of beer for each time the word or phrase is mentioned.

Any form of the word "technology"
India
China
"climate change"
Biofuels
Wind
Solar
Efficiency
International
Oil
Innovation
Clean
Nuclear
Strategy (strategery counts)

Level 2: Two sips of beer for every mention.

"good for the economy"
"developing nations"
"steady progress"
"green jobs"
"realistic goals"
"clean coal"
EPA
2050
"steady progress"
Sequestration (mangled pronunciation)
Mandatory
"international agreement"
Europe

Level 3: One shot of your favorite liquor.

Sequestration (correct pronunciation)
"scientific consensus" (though as writer Charlie Lawton points out, a lot depends on how qualified the reference is here … we’ll let you decide).
"cap and trade"
2010 (or "20-in-10")
Methane
Switchgrass

Level 4: One shot of liquor followed by an entire beer.

Lieberman-Warner
"disagreement among scientists"
"IPCC Report"
"Regulatory trainwreck"
Iraq
Terrorism
Melting

Level 5: Drink one bottle of wine or malt liquor.

"carbon tax"
"global warming"
ExxonMobil
"American dream"
Al Gore
"Kyoto Protocol"
"Polar bears"

Level 6 (a.k.a. “Bush in his ‘youthful’ years”): Buy a keg and do not leave the house until all beer is consumed.

"An Inconvenient Truth"
If Bush takes out a pen and signs the Kyoto Protocol right there in the Rose Garden

EDIT/END

http://envirowonk.com/content/view/160/1/

I predict he'll say "self-regulation", refering to how industry knows better than government how to "git-er-done". And then I'll drink.

Or maybe a new level-7 where you drink pure ethanol until your retinas detach.

:rofl:

What about visual drinking cues - for example, if James Inhofe or Bjorn Lomborg are visible in the Rose Garden crowd?

:rofl:

Can't wait to see what he has to say!!!!

WASHINGTON (AFP) — President George W. Bush Wednesday called for growth in US greenhouse gas emissions to be capped by 2025, but was attacked for his "grossly deficient" strategy against climate change.

Despite having abandoned the Kyoto treaty on climate change, Bush said the world's biggest polluting nation had shown it was serious about reducing growth in planet-warming gases such as carbon dioxide. "Today, I am announcing a new national goal: to stop the growth of US greenhouse gas emissions by 2025," he said in prepared remarks from a speech, without giving a base year to compare any reductions.

Bush said to reach the 2025 goal, "we will need to more rapidly slow the growth of power-sector greenhouse gas emissions so that they peak within 10 to 15 years, and decline thereafter."

But the text did not detail new legal mandates on industry to bring down emissions, and warned Congress against passing new legislation that might "impose tremendous costs on our economy and American families." Bush instead extolled the promise of new technology to clean up gas emissions, older technology like nuclear power and "clean coal," and a previously announced target to make US vehicles more fuel efficient.

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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hVv34tBcOgyQ5Q8kwErW5Af8OHkg

It's that you are allowed to suggest any possible solution, as long as it doesn't embody any kind of planned economic impact. If you propose a solution that does nothing, and results in unplanned economic disaster, that's fine. Just as long as you pretend that nobody could have foreseen it.

. . . that doesn't involve sutures, scalpels and anaesthetic."