On Climate, Bush Has "Understood Nothing, Learned Nothing" - Suddeutsche Zeitung

[hatrack]

When it comes to global warming, much of the world has been resigned for years to waiting out the end of the George W. Bush presidency. Under Bush, the White House has altered climate change reports, spiked global calls for action and maintained that it would simply be too harmful to the US economy to address the growing dangers of a warming climate.

With just months to go before Bush makes way for his successor, the US president on Wednesday (more...) once again confirmed that waiting for number 44 is the way to go. Bush called for the US to halt the growth of greenhouse gas emissions -- but only in 2025. As the San Jose Mercury News wrote on Thursday: "Allowing emissions to rise for the next 17 years is not a plan; it's an abdication."

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In an editorial headlined "Understood Nothing, Learned Nothing," the center-left Süddeutsche Zeitung writes: "For the first time, Bush has concretely said what the world's most dominant industrialized nation will do in the future to address global warming. His solution can be condensed into two words: absolutely nothing."

"That's a slap in the face to every citizen, local government and industry trade group -- including a growing number in America -- working to preserve the Earth's atmosphere. And it’s a mockery of those nations that have set climate protection goals, as well as a free pass for developing countries that have refused to sign a binding international treaty on climate protection."

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,548288,00.html

[phantom power]

1. Understanding and learning are not really his specialties.

[Forkboy]

2. That's our Bush!

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Ironic that Bu**sh** dimissed anything as "harmful to the US economy".

There's been nothing as harmful to the US economy as the George F. Bush maladministration, EVER.

[pscot]

4. Sadly, he's not the only one

Too bad we didn't all wise up 30 yearsago, when it might have mattered.