Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

It seems to be a bit hard to qualify...........

you'rer either a commie

if a 'doomsdayer' could be bothered to read that, then they need help.
i mean, what kind of person reads an article that long?!

All you doomsdayers out there, I recommend this for reading:

http://www.aapg.org/explorer/president/2006/02feb.cfm

So tonight, I announce the Advanced Energy Initiative -- a 22-percent increase in clean-energy research -- at the Department of Energy, to push for breakthroughs in two vital areas. To change how we power our homes and offices, we will invest more in zero-emission coal-fired plants, revolutionary solar and wind technologies, and clean, safe nuclear energy.

We must also change how we power our automobiles. We will increase our research in better batteries for hybrid and electric cars, and in pollution-free cars that run on hydrogen. We'll also fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn, but from wood chips and stalks, or switch grass. Our goal is to make this new kind of ethanol practical and competitive within six years.

In an unprecedented action, the Environmental Protection Agency's own scientific panel on Friday challenged the agency's proposed public health standards governing soot and dust.

The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, mandated by Congress to review such proposals, asserted Friday that the standards put forward by EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson ignored most of the committee's earlier recommendations and could lead to additional heart attacks, lung cancer and respiratory ailments...

In December, Johnson proposed to slightly tighten the health standards that state and local governments must meet in regulating industries and other sources of pollution. But those standards, governing the smallest and most hazardous particles of soot, were substantially weaker than the scientists' recommendations.

Johnson also proposed to exempt rural areas and mining and agriculture industries from standards governing larger coarse particles, and he declined to adopt the panel's proposed haze reduction standards...

"We are obligated to recommend something beneficial to public health," said the panel's longest-serving member, Morton Lippmann, a professor of environmental medicine at New York University School of Medicine.

Public Misled on Air Quality After 9/11 Attack, Judge Says

By JULIA PRESTON
Published: February 3, 2006
Christie Whitman, when she led the Environmental Protection Agency, made "misleading statements of safety" about the air quality near the World Trade Center in the days after the Sept. 11 attack and may have put the public in danger, a federal judge found yesterday.

The pointed criticism of Mrs. Whitman came in a ruling by the judge, Deborah A. Batts of Federal District Court in Manhattan, in a 2004 class action lawsuit on behalf of residents and schoolchildren from downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn who say they were exposed to air contamination inside buildings near the trade center...

"The allegations in this case of Whitman's reassuring and misleading statements of safety after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks are without question conscience-shocking," Judge Batts said.

Indeed, old europe!

The U.S. is indeed a nation of oil addicts , Bush confessed.

His conversion to the clean-technology cause came a bit late, though. But doing it earlier would have meant admitting his addiction to the scientists who deny the existence of global warming. And some addictions are just too tough to break - I do know what I'm speaking of :wink:

I think his remark is being somewhat or maybe a lot mischaracterized.

He'll get around to explaining it though. He always does.