Walter Cronkite: Make Global Warming an Issue

[G_j]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/031704G.shtml

Make Global Warming an Issue

    By Walter Cronkite

    The Philadelphia Enquirer
    Monday 15 March 2004

     The contempt of the Bush administration for environmentalists and their concerns is well known by now. While evidence of man- made environmental damage mounts, the Bush team resists its implications like a defeated army whose rear guard fights off its pursuers as it retreats. That has been especially true of its handling of the most serious of all environmental issues - global warming.

     First, the administration claimed that global warming was the work of liberal hysterics and had been discounted by "more sober scientists." Then, it admitted that it was happening but said there was no proof humans caused it, or could fix it.

     Retreat No. 3 was the White House discovery that, yes, indeed, some of the warming was due to human activity, and we should take steps, say, to reduce emissions, but those steps should be voluntary on the part of industry.

     There are two scientific theories that have been gaining credence in recent years that challenge the sanity of that kind of resistance to fact - and make no mistake about it, global warming is a fact.
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[tinanator]

1. well yeah isnt that one of Kerry's campaign issues?

of course it is!

[G_j]

2. I guess he feels there could be more focus

on this.

[redqueen]

3. Kerry should contrast this with

the study the Pentagon did on the threat of disastrous weather changes.

Fools. They're all self-absorbed, malicious, stupid, thoughtless, selfish, ugly fools.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Gore should have made environment an issue, Kerry should, too

This is something that affects everyone on the planet, and people, I believe, will respond if informed enough to understand that their health and safety, and that of their children, are threatened, that the situation is critical, and that Bush and his administration are driving us toward an environmental crisis, instead of away from one.