Bush seeks new image on global warming

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Source: ap



Bush seeks new image on global warming

By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 51 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Myth: The president refuses to admit that climate change is real and that humans are a factor. Myth: The U.S. is doing nothing to address climate change. Myth: The United States refuses to engage internationally.


So begins a hand-sized handout, easy for reporters to pocket, issued at the State Department where President Bush on Friday was to cap two days of talks at a White House-sponsored climate change conference that is as much about salesmanship as it is about diplomacy.

Unwilling to cut U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases, which make up a fourth of the world's total output, Bush is turning to China, India and the other biggest polluters to swap green technology and other voluntary ways of doing something about global warming.

His administration also has set about creating a process for more such talks and a possible long-term global goal for reducing emissions, with each nation permitted to draw up its own strategies and plans.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070928/ap_on_go_pr_wh/global_warming

[Amonester]

1. Myth 2 = true. Myth 3 = true.

Myth 1 = well, first of all, it's a fact, not a myth!

RW spinners at their "best" = muddy everything up until the idjiauts can't find the truth through all their mud.

[BridgeTheGap]

2. Green Washing?

He doesn't believe it's real...regardless of his public pronouncements.

[MotorCityMan]

3. Key word in the headline is "Image"

He isn't going to do anything meaningful. it would cost his Corporate Masters way too much money.

No, * just wants to change the "image"; he wants people to think he is doing something and taking it seriously.

Nothing new here. No change in policy, just a change in marketing.

[eppur_se_muova]

15. Dead on. All Bu**sh** does for common people is manipulate images.

The oil people, the defense people, now, they get the actuality.

[auburngrad82]

4. Good luck to him in selling this one

How many times over the last seven years have we heard the Chimp use "flawed science" in relation to global warming? Too many to count. Maybe the administration can come up with an acronym like Global War on Global Warming (GWarGWar) and try to sell it that way. I, for one, am not buying.



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[hatrack]

5. Did you say . . Gwar Gwar?

DUDE!!!!

[auburngrad82]

7. LOL. Scumdogs of the Universe

Is that the new name for the Bush administration?



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[hatrack]

9. Now that you mention it . . .

:toast:

[jimnasium]

11. Chimpy's the second gnome from the left...

Pretty fitting...

However, it's pretty insulting to Gwar, though.

[auburngrad82]

12. Funny that they have body armor and our soldiers don't

I guess that's called executive privilege.



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[Whoa_Nelly]

6. New image = Old image

He'll throw a hissyfit, tell the world how things REALLY need to be, and that limiting pollution would be harmful to corporations, and endangers democracy and freedoms around the globe.

He will say all this and more while trying to give someone a shoulder rub while he's also kissing a bald guy, and then will leave to go on a bathroom break by trying to open a fake locked door.

[ananda]

8. This issue of gw isn't about..

image or debate.

It's a fait accompli that neither conversation,
debate, or image will change or stop.

Perhaps some of its damaging and harmful
effects could be mitigated with immediate
and continual -action-, but even that would
be limited.

There are way too many words, debates, and
discussions on serious, critical problems that
need to be addressed and ACTED on NOW,
including global warming, over-development,
healthcare, and so on.

[jimnasium]

10. So what Chimpy's saying is...

We're going to teach the rest of the world not to cause global warming...

hmmmmmmmmm....

Where does he come up with this stuff? Has he been beer-bonging with Jenna again?

[Javaman]

13. prepare for the rightwing echo chamber MSM to scream and yell

over how much moron* has always been for the environment lo these last 7 polluted years.

[softwarevotingtrail]

14. Reality: Image over substance for the President

[Magleetis]

16. As usual

Lies, deceit and BS spew forth from the most despicable human the earth has ever known.

[Lisa]

17. Wow! I actually agree with the White House about something!

Very small, pocket-sized handouts (business card sized) are an excellent idea. I've noticed that the groups trying to educate people about sustainable fisheries have cards to refer to when you're at a restaurant. I made up a bunch when I was lobbying some local politicians last year on global warming, and got a positive response. It took a lot of folding (can cut a standard 8.5x11 page down the long axis and make two handouts this way) -- but if the layout is good and you make it bright and attractive with nice colors, they appear professional and people will look at them.

As far as this specific story goes, though -- I'm completely opposed to all the stuff the Bushies wrote on those handouts!


"WASHINGTON - Myth: The president refuses to admit that climate change is real and that humans are a factor. Myth: The U.S. is doing nothing to address climate change. Myth: The United States refuses to engage internationally.
So begins a hand-sized handout, easy for reporters to pocket, issued at the State Department where President Bush on Friday was to cap two days of talks at a White House-sponsored climate change conference that is as much about salesmanship as it is about diplomacy."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070928/ap_on_go_pr_wh/global_warming