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BLOGASSAULT on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:03:17 AM
Near the end of the article Mr. Froomkin points out Bush's disappointing global warming stance.
Global Warming Opinion Watch
The New York Times editorial board writes: "White House aides had billed President Bush's Rose Garden speech last week as a major turning point at which the president would unveil an ambitious set of proposals to address the problem of global warming -- a late-breaking act of atonement, as it were, for seven years of doing nothing. "Sadly, Mr. Bush's ideas amounted to the same old stuff, gussied up to look new. Instead of trying to make up for years of denial and neglect, his speech seemed cynically designed to prevent others from showing the leadership he refuses to provide -- to derail Congress from imposing a price on emissions of carbon dioxide and the states from regulating emissions on their own."
War presidents are never going to win awards for doing what is necessary and sometimes unpopular, especially now since the enemy is unorganized and
wants to die. And as far as the environment is concerned, 11 years later, there is now plenty of reasons why not joining the
flawed Kyoto treaty was a good idea.