Winds of change

Those crazy liberal Al Gore-worshipping nutjobs in the Bush White House are officially on the global-warming bandwagon.

Also, I am officially a bad person for categorizing this post under "Weather." It's climate, not weather, you moron!  Yeah, but I don't have a "climate" category...

Comments

[Alasdair]

(grin) I suspect you should have it under Science, instead ...

Reading the article, it speaks more to getting away from fossil fuels as an energy source that to anything else ...

I suspect the "climate change" verbiage is simply accepting how the ideas need to be 'framed' nowadays ...

[Mad Max, Esquire]

I believe the Earth has a natural way of resolving this matter. Global warming will end when we are all dead. Problem solved.

[Andrew]

Echoing Alasdair, this is simply an example of Republicans finally learning to play the global warming game. They've finally caught on to the Europeans, who talked a big game about cutting emissions with Kyoto, but in fact haven't made even a dent of a reduction towards 1990 carbon emissions levels. Meanwhile the whole time European politicians have been able to paint the U.S. as the bad guy while doubling and tripling trade with China, Russia, and India, whose economies are far dirtier than America or Europe and are absolutely trashing the environment. Now the Bush administration is understanding this, and it is gambling that it can talk up the need for cutting emissions and maybe even sign onto treaties if they are effectively watered down enough, and then not have to worry one iota about our economy taking a hit. In addition, playing up the fossil fuel angle will increase their clout in getting more nuclear power plants and please big agribusiness, which is making a killing on the runaway bio-fuel speculation thanks to bad policies by eager greenies passing dumb, short-sighted legislation instead of a serious, intelligent long-term energy plan.