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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 01:16 PM
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Greenpeace ED - World Should "Abandon All Hope, Once And For All" For Bush Change On Climate - AFP
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"America is on the verge of technological breakthroughs that will enable us to live our lives less dependent on oil," Bush told a Congress now controlled by opposition Democrats. And these technologies will help us be better stewards of the environment, and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change," he said.

But environmentalists were unmoved by Bush's speech, saying the United States needed to adopt policies capping emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. "The international community should abandon all hope, once and for all, that President Bush will ever really change course on climate change," said Greenpeace USA executive director John Passacantando.

The Worldwatch Institute, a Washington-based environmental research organization, said Bush's proposals "left the White House well behind the growing public and business momentum for an overhaul of US energy policy." "For those who were hoping that President Bush would announce a u-turn in climate policy, his glancing reference to 'the challenge of climate change' was a disappointment," Worldwatch said in a statement.

The independent group noted that his speech came a day after a coalition of US companies, including Alcoa, General Electric and DuPont, urged the government to set mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions and trading in carbon emissions permits.

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http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Bush_Refuses_To_Yield_On_Global_Warming_999.html
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hashibabba Donating Member (894 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 02:22 PM
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1. Its pretty depressing that Bush is too stupid to recognize
climate change, but there is hope. We only have him for two more years. I know that the climate change will only get worse in that time, but we'll just have to try even harder in 2009 to change some of the ills this evil administration has foisted upon us.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 03:52 PM
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2. What hope? What is there to abandon?
There was never any hope that Dubya would act to do anything to counter global warming. Anyone who counted on that has lived in a fantasy world, indeed.
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 04:40 PM
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3. When I read the first sentence, I didn't catch the "less" on first read.
It was a much more plausible Bu**sh** quote that way.
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Moby Grape Donating Member (105 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-27-07 04:33 AM
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4. meaningless background noise
I can't believe people take this seriously.

just won't happen
won't get passed into law

there is nothing to see
move along
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