Bush’s climate plan would undercut real progress (Eugene Register-Guard)

[struggle4progress]

... If Bush wants to undercut efforts in Congress and at the international level to reduce emissions — and if he wants to make certain the challenge of climate change is dumped in his successor’s lap — then he has picked exactly the right strategy ...

Bush’s goal of halting the growth of emissions by 2025 is beyond inadequate ...

While there is no global consensus on specific emissions targets, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has predicted catastrophic changes in weather patterns, sea levels and food production unless greenhouse emissions are swiftly stabilized and then reduced by as much as 80 percent by midcentury. By 2025, emissions must be well into a sharp decline — not merely stabilized, as the president proposes ...

The warming of the planet is the overriding environmental issue of our times. The American people deserve a serious strategy to reduce emissions. Far better than their president, they understand that the cost of acting now will be trivial compared to the cost of further delay.

http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.support.viewStory.cls?cid=95113&sid=5&fid=1

[BeFree]

1. The Bushco Plan

To eliminate greenhouse gasses, Bush wants to get rid of all greenhouses.

[struggle4progress]

2. I guess I can't complain about that reply:

Bush to give speech on climate change strategy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3269543&mesg_id=3270119