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Bush’s Global Warming Bluff

Oh. So now he cares. President Bush, long an opponent of caps to carbon emissions and serious regulatory action on global warming, seems to be softening on the issue. [Washington Times]

Are we ready to solve all of the problems that stem from global warming? [Top 100 Effects Of Global Warming]

The Washington Times reports, “President Bush is poised to change course and announce as early as this week that he wants Congress to pass a bill to combat global warming.”

The specifics of his plan? Currently under debate. But the reasons for the shift are clear: politics…and fear. Apparently, conservatives in Congress and corporate big-wigs fear a “regulatory nightmare” under a Democratic president and the White House is trying to get something passed to signal that “the debate over this is over.”

But be warned: Bush has long talked the talk on global warming, but his proposals have mostly been hot air.

Remember that meeting Bush called of “major emitters” earlier this year? Sounded good, right? Well, as was reported at the time, “meeting outside of the U.N. framework and by likely agreeing only to “aspirational targets,” Bush’s ‘major emitters’ meetings undermines the efforts of the United Nations to draw up a global binding agreement.” [Think Progress]

Oh, and we’re also the only industrialized country in the world who hasn’t signed on to the Kyoto Protocol which would cap greenhouse gas. [Think Progress]

So if you see a lot of hubbub out of the White House this week around global warming, don’t be fooled.

Fool us once…shame on…shame on…can’t get fooled again.

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