Snow: President Bush Has ‘Actually Taken The Lead’ On Climate Change
Snow: President Bush Has ‘Actually Taken The Lead’ On Climate Change
Today White House Press Secretary Tony Snow stated that “contrary to stereotype,” President Bush has been “actively engaged in trying to fight climate change.” He also took issue with a reporter’s comment that the United States has been absent from a global emissions and cap trade program, arguing that the Bush administration has “actually taken the lead on those kinds of innovations.” Watch it:
President Bush has taken very little real action to fight climate change and even refuses to admit that it is manmade. He broke his promise to cap carbon emissions and insists that global warming can be fought through individual “voluntary” programs.
Despite being the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, the United States has refused to participate in the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement that assigns mandatory targets for the reduction of greenhouse gases. Between 1990 and 2004, emissions of all industrialized countries decreased by 3.3 percent, but in U.S. emissions grew by almost 16 percent in that same period and now accounts for approximately two-fifths of the industrialized world’s greenhouse gases.
The rest of the world is leading and the Bush administration isn’t following.
Digg It!
Full transcript below:
SNOW: The President has in fact, contrary to stereotype, been actively engaged in trying to fight climate change and will continue to do so.
REPORTER: The one area that is notably absent and that even Shell Oil and other major players are calling for is a global mandatory emissions cap and trade program. Unless do you this on an international basis, it’s not in the long-term economic interest of the United States, which seems to be one of your arguments that somehow will benefit the United States in the long-term.
SNOW: Well, what the United States has done is we have actually taken the lead on those kinds of innovations.
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Hey he’s leading a retreat. That’s still leading just in the wrong direction.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:09 pmYes, and the lead on mercury pollution, protection of wetlands, saving our old growth forests, and all those wonderful environmental concerns. When you think of green, you think of Bush, yes?
October 31st, 2006 at 12:09 pmHere is a little article I found about Republican tactics to supress the vote. These guys hate everyone but themselves.
We Must Do What it Takes to Win!!!
Sheesh.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:09 pmAnd the sky just turned bright green! Wow!
October 31st, 2006 at 12:10 pmOMG these jokers can’t be remotely serious! Talk about reality-challenged! Bush has actually taken the lead on climate change for sure …more smoke stacks, less restrictions, and more pollution, but that’s not the type of change we had in mind automaton!
October 31st, 2006 at 12:14 pmLIAR
October 31st, 2006 at 12:14 pmSheesh. Lie me a River Tony! These guys go beyond NO Shame – they have NEGATIVE shame – they are proud of their lying.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:18 pmWow. I don’t even know what to say to that.
I can’t imagine being in the White House press corps. I’d have to pick my jaw up too often.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:18 pmDid they just laugh him off the podium for that one? Was snowball able to keep a straight face through that one? The only thing Bushco has done to “fight” climate change is to deny that it’s real, and that, I guess, would represent “attacking the issue” in their twisted view.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:19 pmThe Bush Administration has taken the lead on lying to the American public. Also the lead on torture, denial of civil liberties, rollback of voting rights, and incompetent leadership.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:20 pmHoly Crap! We have entered Opposite World. Now every time we hear Tony SnowJob’s pronouncements, we will know reality is exactly opposite of what he is saying.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:20 pmBushCo, all lies all the time, 24/7/365,366
October 31st, 2006 at 12:20 pmThe stink of methane rising off the load of BS spewing from Snow’s mouth should raise global temps by 2 – 3 degrees.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:21 pmThat’s right, Tony. And Bush has also taken the lead on helping the poor, working for peace and leading the western world to better understand our Muslim neighbors.
I feel so much better about everything now.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:22 pmTony Snow has now sank to the rank of propaganda. He might as well stop attending the White House press briefings and just fly over in a plane and drop leaflets of his talking points for the day.
http://www.getsomejosh.com
October 31st, 2006 at 12:25 pmBush takes the lead on nothing, but killing other people! Dubya has NOT done one decent thing for the United States’ average citizenry, but he does love the stinking elite rich!
October 31st, 2006 at 12:25 pmOh, come on!!
This is a ” in your face, America, because I think you are all stupid worms”, Lie.
Snow you are scum, lying scum
October 31st, 2006 at 12:26 pmThe President has [...] been actively engaged in trying to fight climate change.
This one ranks in the Bush administration’s Top Ten, along with “The ‘Mission Accomplished’ sign only meant the USS Lincoln’s mission was accomplished,” and “we’ve never been stay the course”.
These people really do think everyone has short-term memory.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:27 pmWho can argue with Tony Snow. Bush has taken the lead on these issues. People are simply misunderstanding the meaning of the word “lead” as used by Snow.
Bush has taken the lead on thawarting efforts in these areas. One example, killing the Koyoto Accords.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:27 pmHalloween and April Fools’ Day are probably the only times Snow could even consider saying this.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:28 pmTo be fair: Snowjob said they’d “taken the lead” on climate change issues, not that they’d taken the lead saving the planet from the result of those changes. They have been #1 in obstructing international initiatives to deal with the problem, no sense arguing about that…
October 31st, 2006 at 12:29 pm….taken the lead after 6 years of ignoring all scientific evidence?? Taken the lead after not signing the Kyoto Treaty? Taken the lead of exactly what????
October 31st, 2006 at 12:32 pmSnowjob Tony trying to spin his lie web once again!! Tony’s such a transparent fraud these days.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:33 pmBush’s war on the environment:
Pulled out of the Kyoto agreement on global warming, which was agreed upon by 178 other countries.
Proposes to legalize the release of inadequately treated sewage into waterways while cutting funding for water quality investments(32%) and infrastructure (40%).
Doctored the EPA’s Draft Report on the Environment so it wouldn’t include any mention of the overwhelming scientific consensus regarding the global warming threat.
Proposes to remove regulations on mercury pollution.
Proposed weakening the New Source Review regulation of the Clear Air Act. The changes allow older coal-fired power plants and other facilities to avoid installing pollution controls when they expand or repair existing facilities. According to environmental advocates, just 51 of the power plants subject to new source review enforcement helped cause the premature deaths of 5,500 to 9,000 people each year many from respiratory diseases, and could cause 30,000- pollution related deaths over the next 20 years.
Clear Skies allows more than twice as much S02 for nearly a decade longer (2010 – 2018), than the Clean Air Act currently allows. The plan also allows more than one and a half times as much NOx for nearly a decade longer (2010-2018). This act also allows power plants to emit triple the amount of mercury into the environment.
Bush took steps to abolish the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
Opened 191 million acres of public lands to increased commercial logging (The Health Forest Initiative). After this, he proposed to reverse a federal regulation to protect 60 million acres of national forest from logging and road building.
Cut $500 million from the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget.
Bush proposed a bill to prevent groups from suing to have an animal placed on the Endangered Species List.
Came out against international efforts to restrict the use of sonar anywhere in the world, especially by the U.S. Navy, even though the sonar poses a threat to ocean wildlife. This decision puts the administration at odds with many European nations as more evidence emerges linking the use of active sonar and the beaching of whales and other ocean mammals.
Revoked rule to reduce the acceptable level of arsenic in drinking water. Proposed to cut $35 million from the national lead poisoning prevention program and refused to regulate mercury (while secretly altering scientific findings as to its danger) through the same tough approach used for other hazardous air pollutants (Bush adopted industry supported rules).
Requested Congress to exempt the Pentagon from environmental laws pertaining to air pollution, toxic waste dumps, and endangered species.
Bush refused to federally fund the continued clean up of a uranium-slag heap in Utah.
Proposes building 63 new nuclear power plants ($4.7 million increase in nuclear power funding), increasing funding in the Coal Research Initiative by $69 million and the Clean Coal Power Initiative by $109 million (60 percent), and seeks to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The AP reports that Bush’s top energy priority as he enters his second term is to open an Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil drilling.
On October 7, 2002, Bush stated “We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.”
Proposes energy industry tax breaks and subsidies costing $23 billion over the next 10 years. Cut funding for renewable energy resources in 2002 by $190 million, by $35.8 million in 2003, by $137 million in 2004, and the 2005 budget will cut overall energy efficiency and conservation by more than $2 million. Proposes cutting solar energy programs by more than $3 million and biomass by $14 million.
Bush pushed the deadline up indefinitely for automakers to develop prototype high mileage cars.
Had his administration manipulate the 2005 cattle grazing report in order to loosen regulations for cattle grazing on over 160 million acres of public lands.
Alcoa, the third largest contributor to the Bush campaign, was allowed by Bush (as governor) to work a loophole into the Texas environmental regulations which allowed Alcoa to emit 60,000 tons of sulfer dioxide each year.
Failed to protect three million acres of the Tongass National Forest from logging. The Tongass has the highest concentration of bald eagles on earth and has already lost 700 square miles to logging with 33 more longing permits pending.
Bush eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.
Eliminated the Wetland Reserve Program. It was designed to encourage and reward farmers for maintaining a wetlands habitat on their property.
Abolished rules mandating energy-saving regulations for central air conditioners and heat pumps.
Bush plans to have nuclear waste stored at the volcanic Yucca Mountain facility.
Proposes cutting core energy efficiency line items for building by $1.5 million and industrial technologies by $35 million (38 percent).
Bush nominated Linda Fisher – an executive for Monsanto – to the Environmental Protection Agency. Monsanto is one of the largest farming and pesticide biotechnology companies in the world.
Bush cut 28% of government funding for researching cleaner, more efficient automobiles.
Cut government funding to research renewable energy sources by 50%.
Appointed Spencer Abraham to be Secretary of Energy. Here is some information on Spencer Abraham:
- As a former senator from Michigan, Abraham voted to abolish the department that he now leads.
- He opposed research into renewable energy.
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- Wanted to repeal the federal gas tax.
- Abraham had such a strong anti-environmental record hat the League of Conservation Voters gave him a zero rating.
- Strong supporter of drilling in Alaska
- Received $700,000 from automotive company DaimerChrysler, which is part of the Coalition for Vehicle Choice, a trade group trying to stop an increase in fuel economy standards.
Appointed Gale Norton to be Secretary of the Interior. Here is some information on Gale Norton:
- She started her legal career with the Mountain States Legal Foundation, a conservative environmental think tank funded by oil companies.
- She has declared the Endangered species act to be Unconstitutional.
- She’s written numerous legal opinions against the National Environmental Protection Act.
- Lobbied for NL Industries (formerly known as National Lead) while it defended itself in lawsuits over children’s exposure to lead paint.
- She helped the state of Alaska challenge an Interior department fisheries law.
- She was national chairwoman of the Coalition of Republican Environmental Advocates, a group funded by Ford Motor Company and BP Amoco.
Bush appointed White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, the former CEO of the now defunct American Automobile Manufacturers Association which lobbied against stricter fuel emissions standards.
Bush passed the “Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act†(TERSA) which triggered a firestorm of opposition across the entire spectrum of environmental organizations. Drawing particular alarm is a provision that would end the protection of critical habitat necessary for the survival and recovery of plants and animals. Under the current law, areas designated “essential to the conservation of species” qualify as “critical habitat” and are subject to federal protection. TERSA replaces “critical habitat” with a recovery plan that merely identifies areas that are valuable to the species, but does not mandate any specific federal protection, unlike the Endangered Species ACT (ESA). Moreover, while the current ESA requires that all decisions be based on the “best scientific and commercial information” available, TERSA removes that authority from scientific experts and transfers it to Interior Secretary Gale Norton, whose record consistently favors commercial interests over environmental protection.
Bush appointed Susan Dudley as the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs which holds sway over federal regulatory agencies like the EPA and helps set regulatory policy for a wide range of issues, from workplace safety to water quality. Here is some background information on Susan Dudley:
– Opposed EPA plans to set tougher public health standards for smog.
– Opposed lower-polluting cars and SUVs and cleaner gasoline.
– Opposed air bags in cars
– Opposed stronger regulations for arsenic in drinking water,
Proposes to rewrite Clean Water Act regulations, thereby removing 20 million acres of wetlands, streams and other isolated waters from protection under the law.
Announced plans to open up Montana’s Lewis and Clark National Forest to oil drilling.
Rescinded a law that safeguarded public access to information about the potential consequences of chemical plant accidents.
Proposed to eliminate marine protections for the Channel Islands and the coral reefs of northwest Hawaii.
Proposed to redraw the boundaries of national monuments to allow for oil and gas drilling “outside” of them.
Nominated an advocate for repealing the Endangered Species Act, Bennett Raley, as the Assistant Secretary for Water and Science.
Gas industry has stockpiled leases and drilling permits on 34 million acres of public lands in the Rockies, but is only producing oil or gas on 32 percent of that land.
Seeks to exempt industrial laundries from EPA requirements.
Environmentalists have called Bush and co. the most anti-environmental administration ever.
Bush’s 2005 energy Bill:
- Extends the “dual-fuel vehicle†loophole giving automakers credit for producing vehicles capable of running on alternative fuel but that almost never do. This provision will increase our gasoline consumption by 10 billion gallons through 2015.
- Does not outline any new strategies for improving mass transit
- Excludes a Renewable Electricity Standard that would have required major electric utilities to gradually increase their use of clean renewable energy such as wind, solar, and bioenergy. Although the renewables standard passed the Senate with bi-partisan support, House leadership stripped it from the final bill.
- Removes an existing requirement that recipients of highly enriched uranium—purchased for producing medical isotopes—commit to converting to the use of low enriched uranium when feasible. This misguided provision would lead to unnecessary shipments of nuclear weapons-usable materials abroad
- Heavily weighted toward the traditional oil, gas, coal and nuclear power industries. The tax title was particularly lopsided in its approach. Of the $14.5 billion tax package, renewable energy and energy efficiency received only $4.5 billion while fossil fuels received $5.6 billion and nuclear power received $1.3 billion.
- Includes a waiver that would protect the chemical makers, which are some of the biggest oil giants in the United States, from all MTBE liability lawsuits filed since September 2003. MTBE is a Dangerous Chemical used in gasoline that has been known to occasionally seep into civilian water supplies. Its powerful turpentine-like taste and odor make water undrinkable. Contamination usually results from leaks in at gasoline stations.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:33 pmI notice the Trolls don’t even know how to respond to this.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:34 pmThat’s the funnies thing I ever heard omg they must really believe people are that stupid
October 31st, 2006 at 12:34 pmIf this president thinks he can fu*k with religions, why not with mother nature?
October 31st, 2006 at 12:35 pmbullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit
October 31st, 2006 at 12:37 pmfrom TVC alert http://www.virtualchase.com
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EPA Quietly Closes Chemical Library
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(30 Oct) Without notice to the public, and without awaiting Congressional action, the Environmental Protection Agency has closed the Office of Prevention, Pollution and Toxic Substances (OPPTS) Library.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:39 pmAccording to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), who announced the closure, the library “had provided research services to EPA scientists who review industry requests for the introduction of new chemicals into the market.” Its paper collection has been moved to a make-shift storage area.
Again, I think Snow throws these whoppers out because he gets a kick out of blatently lying and secret hopes he’ll get caught at it and punished. Sick, sick, sick.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:40 pmTaken the lead on the destruction of the world while lining their pockets along with all of their fellow crooks so they can take it with them to La-La Land when they go to that special place they so much believe in.
What’s this I have read about how if something drastic isn’t done within 10 years it will be too late ?
I think it’s more like do something NOW or else.
They must have a huge underground bunker stockpiled with enough to sustain their families for a hundred years or how ever long they think the earth will take to heal itself, since they know for sure their god would only let them screw the planet up if it was meant to be.
Hey why should they care though? They have enough resources to do what it takes to survive and to hell with the rest of us.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:41 pmPresident Bush has ‘Actually Taken The Lead’ on Climate Change by quickening the human effects on the environment.
Think about this for a moment:
In the days following 9/11, Emperor George could have come out and said that the Government was going to invest in infrastructure that got us away from oil dependence. Yes, he could have done that, but he didn’t.
Rather, Emperor George and the corporatists who support him encouraged (through a state of fear and desire to “protect” our loved ones) the consumption of a massive number of gas guzzling SUVs.
Mission Accomplished.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:43 pmThis one ranks in the Bush administration’s Top Ten, along with “The ‘Mission Accomplished’ sign only meant the USS Lincoln’s mission was accomplished,†and “we’ve never been stay the courseâ€.
Comment by Gregor Samsa — October 31, 2006 @ 12:27 pm
You forgot one other one, Gregor: “when the VP said a dunk in the water was a no-brainer, he wasn’t talking about waterboarding — we don’t torture…”
It’d be one thing if Snowman was spewing these lies in front of a repuglickin’ election-eve rally in redland, where they drink the koolaid without question on a regular basis. But why does the WH press corps continue to let these bozos get away with this crap?
October 31st, 2006 at 12:43 pmWell, we’re dealing with an administration that has taken lying to a high level than ever before. Why should it stop now?
October 31st, 2006 at 12:47 pmPresident Bush Has ‘Actually Taken The Lead’ On Climate Change
Or……. to put it another way…….
President Bush Has ‘Actually Taken The Lead’ On Changing the Climate
I defer to #25 in deciding which direction its headed.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:48 pmin lieu of the trolls, I offer this humble cheer.
Bush, Bush,
October 31st, 2006 at 12:49 pmHe’s our man,
If he can’t F#*k it
No one can!
Ohmygod! Tony Snow is actually talking out of his rectum. What a talent!
Of course, it’s not anything different than what usually comes out of there.
October 31st, 2006 at 1:03 pmBnF…….You are a riot..Thank’s for that one.ROTFLMAO…….Blessings and Happy Samhain….
October 31st, 2006 at 1:05 pmCool, I feel much better now. Anybody got any extra soma? I seem to have run out early.
October 31st, 2006 at 1:07 pm#44-Ohmygod! Tony Snow is actually talking out of his rectum. What a talent!
I saw a girl smoke a cigarette with her vagina in Bangkok once. I can’t mention here what I saw her do with the banana, as this is a family-friendly blog.
October 31st, 2006 at 1:10 pmWhere is Sexxion to tell us that he and Bush have always been fighing global warming?
October 31st, 2006 at 1:13 pmDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
- George Orwell
These guys are so hypocritical, such bald faced liars, you’d think their heads would explode from their ability to say one thing and do the complete opposite, on an hourly basis, every day of the year.
October 31st, 2006 at 1:19 pmWow, did you hear what that wanna-be president piece of crap Kerry had to say -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLuMWiQ6r2o
The bastard insults everyone in the armed forces. How come this site does not post this kind of stuff?
October 31st, 2006 at 1:19 pmThis is the advantage that Republicans have in politics: complete freedom from the truth. They don’t just tell little lies, they tell the whoppers, and with a straight face. Another advantage the G.O.P. has is the conservative bias of the press, which will report this bold-faced lie as-is and without commentary: “Bush Defends His Efforts to Fight Global Warming” or some such pathetic headline.
October 31st, 2006 at 1:27 pmFox News Ticker:
Is George W. Bush a Climatologist or the Greatest Climatologist of all Time?
October 31st, 2006 at 1:33 pmThey lie with every word they say. And their supporters just don’t seem to care anymore. I guess being a right wing Republican means having an infinite tolerance for dishonesty and hypocrisy. And to think that many of these people dare to call themselves Christians.
October 31st, 2006 at 1:33 pmThe bastard insults everyone in the armed forces. How come this site does not post this kind of stuff?
Comment by Happy+Guy — October 31, 2006 @ 1:19 pm
Yeah, Happy Idiot, and your guy Bush insults them AND gets them killed or maimed.
Happy Idiot, what you do think of Bush’s non-stop compulsive lying? Do you think it is okay to lie about everything all the time, including matters of life and death? Does that work well in your limited ethical framework? Do you consider yourself a moral person when you accept the lying and support the crimes of the Bush administration? Do you support authoritarianism? Do you prefer fascism as a mode of government?
October 31st, 2006 at 1:37 pmThey lie openly in the faces of both the public and the media. It is up to the latter to point this out to the former. We can only hope this crap will subside after 7 Nov.
October 31st, 2006 at 1:42 pmSnow:
“I’d be happy to tell you exactly how we’ve taken the lead on this, but…Cheney decided the energy plan should be secret. You don’t want the Islamofascists to know our secret plan, do you?!”
October 31st, 2006 at 1:48 pmInteresting listening–Senator Inhofe’s communications director getting grilled on climate science:
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/10/29/11225/543
October 31st, 2006 at 1:55 pm#53 Talking Point Guy
Wow, did you hear what that wanna-be president piece of crap Kerry had to say -
Yeah, I liked Kerry’s response to the GOP spin machine that tried to re-interpret his words:
“I’m not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq,” rails Kerry, in the statement. “It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have.”
“These Republicans are afraid to debate veterans who live and breathe the concerns of our troops, not the empty slogans of an Administration that sent our brave troops to war without body armor,” the statement continues. “Bottom line, these Republicans want to debate straw men because they’re afraid to debate real men. And this time it won’t work because we’re going to stay in their face with the truth and deny them even a sliver of light for their distortions.”
Well said.
October 31st, 2006 at 1:59 pmOf course Bush has taken the lead on climate change! Also we are not at war with Iraq! There is peace in the middle east ! We have a budget surplus! We are living in paradise people! All you pathetic complainers just cannot give this wonderful president a break!
October 31st, 2006 at 2:09 pm#66: Thanks for included John Kerry’s statements. Kerry is 100% correct and deserves the nation’s applause for standing up for truth in the face of the Bush Administration’s demonstrable lies. Thank God for John Kerry.
October 31st, 2006 at 2:24 pmAnother skull and bone puppet!
October 31st, 2006 at 2:27 pmThe only thing that George Bush has done for the environment is make everyone sicker.
October 31st, 2006 at 2:35 pmWe should join the Kyoto treaty the same day that China and India do. Currently, China or India are exempt from Kyoto. If they don’t have to worry about we shouldn’t either.
October 31st, 2006 at 2:36 pmHow does a person crack up laughing on here?
Bwa, ha, ha ,haa,,hhha,,,hhahahhhhahahah.
October 31st, 2006 at 2:39 pmAt what point WILL the White Hause Press Corpse be seen leaving the press briefing room gagging and retching at the crap they’ve been spoon fed by these moronies?
October 31st, 2006 at 2:41 pmOr will they need to just bring in the bulldozer to scoop it all up off the floor?
We should join the Kyoto treaty the same day that China and India do. Currently, China or India are exempt from Kyoto. If they don’t have to worry about we shouldn’t either.
Comment by Roger_Roger — October 31, 2006 @ 2:36 pm
Wrong
China has signed and ratified.
India has signed and ratified.
The only countries that matter that haven’t signed are Australia and the United States.
Get your friggin’ facts straight.
You can start by looking here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kyoto_Protocol_participation_map_2005.png
October 31st, 2006 at 3:09 pm“Well said”, indeed… if only John Kerry had taken that kind of stand while running for President we might not be having this conversation.
October 31st, 2006 at 3:11 pm[...] Hat Tip to ThinkProgress For This One: [...]
October 31st, 2006 at 3:18 pmOnce again, Miss Amanda is clearly uninformed.
Between 1990 and 2004, emissions of all industrialized countries decreased by 3.3 percent, but in U.S. emissions grew by almost 16 percent in that same period and now accounts for approximately two-fifths of the industrialized world’s greenhouse gases.
Miss Amanda’s superficial analysis hides the facts. According to the UNFCC press release, Oct 30, 2006:
According to the secretariat, in the period 1990–2004, the overall emissions of industrialized countries decreased by 3.3 per cent. However, this was mostly due to a 36.8 per cent decrease in emissions on the part of economies in transition of eastern and central Europe (EITs).
Within the same time-period, the greenhouse gas emissions of the other industrialized Parties of the Convention grew by 11.0 per cent.
Then Amanda says,
The rest of the world is leading and the Bush administration isn’t following.
The rest of the world to Amanda must only be countries that are reducing emissions. She’s excluding these countries that have increased emissions at a rate greater than the US since 1990:
Turkey – 72.6% increase
Spain – 49.0%
Portugal – 41.0%
Canada – 26.6%
Australia – 25.1%
Ireland – 23.1%
New Zealand – 21.3%
Austria, Italy, Finland and Japan emissions have also increased.
Meanwhile, the US has reduced its rate of emissions since 2000 compared to the rate of change from 1990 to 2000.
From 1990 to 2000, total GHG emissions including LULUCF (land use and forestry) increased by 19.7% (almost 2%/year) while from 2000 to 2004 emissions increased by only 1.4% (0.35%/year).
Under Bush we are reducing the rate of increase of GHG emissions, something that Clinton never did.
October 31st, 2006 at 3:46 pmThe link to the press release and the data for those who can’t do their own research (you know who your are)
http://unfccc.int/2860.php
See: 30 October 2006 — 2006 UNFCCC greenhouse gas data report points to rising emission trends
October 31st, 2006 at 3:54 pmEverybody, please ignore Hippie with a pistol. He is a known liar who plies Think Progress regularly on behalf of the fossil fuel industries. His posts are filled with disinformation supported by cherry-picked data meant to confuse the gullible and ignorant.
October 31st, 2006 at 4:12 pmThe big melt is on and it continues and it is greater and faster than anyone had predicted just two years ago. Every time the melt rate is measured, it has increased and will continue to increase.
George Bush the oilman has taken the lead on global warming? How can Mr. Snow say that with a straight face?
How do you tell when a member of the Bush Administration is lying? Their lips are moving.
October 31st, 2006 at 4:27 pmDestroy Snow’s comment with one word: Kyoto!
….Oh! Snap!
October 31st, 2006 at 4:40 pmSeriously, in 10 years time I foresee a mob pulling up to the mansions of the retired administration goons to demand some rough justice for ‘problems ignored in the noughties’. Might be worth a laf.
October 31st, 2006 at 4:53 pmSnow must get a thrill from constantly lying… why else does he do it?
October 31st, 2006 at 5:25 pmTaken the lead? Oh god.
Did the whole room erupt in laughter when he said that?
October 31st, 2006 at 5:33 pmAnd white is really black, up is really down, hot is really cold and lies are always the truth, right Tony? What percentage of the population is really swallowing this koolaid anymore?
October 31st, 2006 at 7:23 pmIf Bush had it his way, he’d disband the epa. If it were not for epa guidelines, the air would be so dirty you wouldn’t be able to see a football field’s length in small cities. Like it or not, you need restrictions. And Bush is leading the way, right?
October 31st, 2006 at 7:43 pmwoo-hoo for rough justice!!! I’ll sign up in advance for that mission. Get all Zell Miller on’em…
October 31st, 2006 at 7:59 pm#86 – Yatima – thank you also for referring to the current decade as “the Noughties” – I’ve been saying since ‘95 that we should call it that, yet it’s failed to catch on, evidently. Glad to hear someone out there has also considered it.
October 31st, 2006 at 8:05 pmBush is a wacko. Period. Nobody buys any of his ridiculous lies anymore. His lies are actually getting worse — that is, he is actually getting worse at lying. Maybe he should brush up a little with Darth Cheney.
October 31st, 2006 at 8:10 pmFYI: The web site referred to by Jimmie regarding GOP tactics to suppress the vote is purely satire as it indicates at the bottom of the web page. The page is certainly amusing and I should think that a sleeze like Karl Rove would certaily use what is suggested in jest if he thought the tactics would work and they would not backfire on the GOP.
October 31st, 2006 at 8:50 pm“WAR IS PEACE—-FREEDOM IS SLAVERY—-IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”
November 1st, 2006 at 12:52 amClimate change is good for you – Soylent green is made of algae – these pesticides and solvents won’t cause cancer – consume – obey – consume – obey – and so on… and on…and on.
Isn’t it about time Mr. Snow is called by his obvious identity, it’s Baghdad Bob!
November 1st, 2006 at 1:33 amThis proves conclusively that Tony Snow doesn’t care how outrageous the lie that comes out of his mouth is.
November 1st, 2006 at 2:38 amYou want even more proof that Snow is full of crap? Here are 100 reasons why the GOP has done nothing but fail us in the past 6 years.
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE3WM9qJUf0
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeDb0ElJSnU
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag720jQSXo8
Enjoy.
November 1st, 2006 at 2:40 amWhat a bunch of propaghanda. Nice how you take the video WAY out of context. If they would have shown the entire video Tony Snow would have further explained how they have put billions aside for the global initiative.
Don’t show thing’s out of context, show the whole video, or don’t show it at all. Doing so is feebly spreading propaghanda. Show the rest of the meeting and you’d be shocked to see how much this admin has done.
November 1st, 2006 at 4:30 amIt breaks my heart to see American reduced to, “If you say it, it will become so.” Why, in God’s name would any other country trust this President and his administration when even the American people can’t keep up with the lies? Accountability is more than “welfare reform” or testing students with NCLB… it is time we got a party in there that will make this administration and the previous congress accountable!
November 1st, 2006 at 5:44 amimagine the hundreds of billions spent in iraq used for research on global warming, but that would not let bush be the “war president”.
November 1st, 2006 at 8:25 am[...] I didn’t think it was possible for the Bush Administration to add more comedians to its lineup, but with the addition of Press Secretary Tony Snow, they’ve found a real gem. Snow earlier stated that “contrary to stereotype,†President Bush has been “actively engaged in trying to fight climate change.†He also took issue with a reporter’s comment that the United States has been absent from a global emissions and cap trade program, arguing that the Bush administration has “actually taken the lead on those kinds of innovations.†[...]
November 1st, 2006 at 1:44 pmFederal Dollars on Research & Development:
$75 billion military
$28 billion medical
$3 billion energy.
Facts say Bush is “taking the lead on death”
November 1st, 2006 at 3:08 pmTalk about Orwellian. Black is white, true is false.
November 2nd, 2006 at 1:10 amI’m pretty sure that every time that bastard walks up to that podium he tells a lie.
November 2nd, 2006 at 6:28 pmGoogle NASA Scientist Jame Hansen to read about his findings on rising ocean temperatures. He will be publishing another paper soon on the link between climate change and human-made interference. If international community fails to take action, the planet faces irreversible environmental damage by mid-century. But fear not, the Bush administration proposes to shift NASA funding away from space program for civilian use to – you guessed it – military applications of space. Darth Vadar lives!
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