After 4 years of nonsense, Bushies fess up: GHG might be bad for us.

[NNadir]

From the NY Times:

"White House Shifts Its Focus on Climate
By ANDREW C. REVKIN

Published: August 26, 2004


n a striking shift in the way the Bush administration has portrayed the science of climate change, a new report to Congress focuses on federal research indicating that emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases are the only likely explanation for global warming over the last three decades.


In delivering the report to Congress yesterday, an administration official, Dr. James R Mahoney, said it reflected "the best possible scientific information" on climate change. Previously, President Bush and other officials had emphasized uncertainties in understanding the causes and consequences of warming as a reason for rejecting binding restrictions on heat-trapping gases...

...American and international panels of experts concluded as early as 2001 that smokestack and tailpipe discharges of heat-trapping gases were the most likely cause of recent global warming. But the White House had disputed those conclusions.

The last time the administration issued a document suggesting that global warming had a human cause and posed big risks was in June 2002, in a submission to the United Nations under a climate treaty. President Bush distanced himself from it, saying it was something "put out by the bureaucracy."

That may be harder to do this time..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/26/science/26climate.html?hp

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. But Georgie doesn't flip-flop!

Sure he doesn't. He is so virtuous, he never lies. </sarcasm>

[acmavm]

2. Right, if he gets elected, you'll see another big flip flop when he starts

telling everyone how green house gasses don't exist, or that they're really good for you.

It's just a temporary thing.

[kestrel91316]

6. You are 100% correct n/t

[BootinUp]

3. I trust them now

ya right /sarcasm

[hatrack]

4. But of course, we won't hear jack shit on the news about this flip-flop

We'll be too busy yakking about what happened in the Mekong Delta 35 years ago.

Do you suppose that people 35 years from now will be talking about Kobe and Jacko and Laci and Lori, or will they be too busy picking rice and corn stubble from fields trying to put breakfast together to have much time for historical "perspective"?

On edit: the important thing is to maintain a sense of perspective - there's nothing in this article to indicate that we can't keep on studying the phenomenon, since ChimpCo, Inc. will doubtless call for further study - assuming anyone notices.

[Viking12]

5. Pre-empting an offensive from Tony Blair? eom

[Viking12]

7. "Ah, we did? I don't think so."

The new report was signed by Mr. Bush's secretaries of energy and commerce and his science adviser. Asked why the administration had changed its position on what causes global warming, Mr. Bush replied, "Ah, we did? I don't think so."

From today's New York Times, scroll down to paragraph 9.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/27/politics/campaign/27bush.html?hp

[hatrack]

8. Sounds like he didn't read this report put out by the bureaucracy, either

Simian buffoon.