Official - US Climate Policy "Misunderstood" - Hey! Don't Leave! Really!

BRUSSELS - "The United States is committed to fighting global warming even if it has rejected the Kyoto treaty, the U.S. climate change negotiator said Monday.

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"We use every opportunity that we can in many fora around the world to get our message out...We feel that people don't hear all that we are doing," senior climate change negotiator Harlan Watson told reporters ahead of a conference. "We need to get our message out better," Watson added.

In a speech prepared for the Brussels conference, Watson outlined the Bush administration's policy on climate change, highlighting a commitment to reduce emissions growth.

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While climate change is an issue of great interest to the European public, Watson said the environment was unlikely to play any role in Bush's presidential campaign against his Democratic challenger, Senator John Kerry. "Environment is really not a point. In the end, it is the economics and the Middle East in particular that is the focus of the American public," Watson said."

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http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/25066/story.htm

Breathe Houston's air and see.

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Top amongst these are hydrogen and nuclear power, as well as ‘carbon sequestration’ – under which harmful CO2 emissions are caught and stored before they head into the atmosphere. Watson said the Bush administration would be pumping €5 billion in 2005 into climate change technology and research. And every penny is likely to be needed.

The idea of a hydrogen economy is still very much in its fledgling stage, the USA has built no new nuclear plants since the 1970s, and carbon sequestration – as well as having so far failed to win round environmentalists – is currently too expensive to be practicable.

Watson admitted that Washington faces an uphill struggle merely to convince the public that the US is doing anything at all to combat climate change. “We feel that people don’t hear all that we are doing.”

“It will be difficult – but we’re going to keep working at it.”

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http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200405/1609ecf1-fb7c-496c-92f2-f57be67eeb64.htm

"Waaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!! We're doing SO MUCH and we NEVER get credit for it, but *(sniff)* we'll keep soldiering on, making valuable new discoveries on greenwashing and public relations as we go."

Especially after busting your butt climbing to the South Rim Of the Chisos and not being able to see the desert only a mile below!

warmest winter ever in Montana,

nothing to see here folks, no climate changes here, have some koolaid and MOVE ALONG NOW!