Can You say, “Dodging the issue”
White House plans 10-year study of climate change
I’ve got to give them credit, this is one cute move.
Advisor: “I know, let’s act like we care and commission a huge study on Global Warming, but make it last so long that we will be out of office before we ever have to do anything about it.”
Bush: “That’s a splendorious idea!”
Of course I would be remiss if I did not point out the criticism of the plan by St. John of the Kerry:
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who presided over the hearing, insisted, however, that the predictions of economic gloom and doom were overstated.
He said the administration’s own “dire warnings” of global warming’s likely effects justify more than a voluntary approach.
“There is an inconsistency,” Kerry said, admonishing the advisers. Even as the administration acknowledges potentially “grave consequences” of global warming, he said, “emissions will increase each year under the president’s program.
“Now why should Americans be satisfied that this is a legitimate response to this crisis, this problem we face?” Kerry asked.
*Sigh!*
A common argument in the ‘global warming is bunk’ camp is that we couldn’t possibly understand the greater patterns of a 4 billion year old planetary weather system based on our collection of data which only dates back a meager 120 - 130 years. So what exactly is 10 more years going to prove in this regard? My hunch tells me that it’s not going to ‘prove’ anything.
Comment by Marc | 7/12/2002