Bush administration officials working behind the scenes have succeeded in weakening key sections of a proposal for joint action by the eight major industrialized nations to curb climate change.
Why? Why? Why? Not only does George Bush want to stay in denial about global warming and not address the issue in the United States, Bush insists on influencing other nations in this direction as well. God, I hate this man with a passion!
Under U.S. pressure, negotiators in the past month have agreed to delete language that would detail how rising temperatures are affecting the globe, set ambitious targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions and set stricter environmental standards for World Bank-funded power projects, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. Negotiators met this week in London to work out details of the document, which is slated to be adopted next month at the Group of Eight's annual meeting in Scotland.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/AR2005061601666.html
Bush wants to delete language that would explain how the rising temperatures are affecting the globe. It is all about controlling the spin. Keep the public ignorant--the Republican way to winning elections.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. I don't know who said that but it is true in this case. Bush insists on using his power to destroy our world. Is this what he receives in his messages from God?
It is absolutely disappointing that the negotiators caved. I am happy, though, that the rest of the world is not as ignorant as many Americans and that they are concerned about global warming.
The earth is a single system in which the various phenomena in the atmosphere, water, and and are interrelated, forming a definite balance. It is not possible to forecast all the consequences and impacts that will result if this balance is destroyed by global warming.
But we can make the people aware of what is currently happening due to global warming. But Bush wants to keep everyone clueless.
Greater evaporation as a result of global warming could increase the risk of wildfires.
* The 1999-2002 national drought was one of the three most extensive droughts in the last 40 years.
* In 2002, the Western United States experienced its second worst wildfire season in the last 50 years; more than 7 million acres burned. Colorado, Arizona, and Oregon had their worst seasons.
* The period from April through June of 1998 was the driest three-month period in 104 years in Florida, Texas, and Louisiana.
* Dry conditions produced the worst wildfires in 50 years in Florida in 1998.
* April through July of 1999 was the driest four-month stretch in 105 years of record-keeping in New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Rhode Island.
* Montana, Colorado, and Kansas experienced severe dust storms in 2002, a product of dry conditions.
* September 2001 to February 2002 was the second driest six-month period on record for the Northeast.
http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/fcons.asp
Oh, Bush is right. None of these droughts would affect anyone. Why should we be concerned about global warming?
Not only is there the water evaporation, how about the storms.
Consequence: more intense rainstorms
Warmer temperatures increase the energy of the climatic system and lead to more intense rainfall at some times and in some areas.
Warning signs today
* National annual precipitation has increased between 5 and 10 percent since the early 20th century, largely the result of heavy downpours in some areas.
* Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts each got more than double their normal monthly rainfall in June 1998.
* Severe flooding in the Texas, Montana, and North Dakota during the summer of 2002 caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.
Anybody hear about the hurricanes in Florida last year? President Denial Money-Grubber, these are consequences of global warming right here in America.
You can side with Corporate America all you want but we are going to side with the people of the earth because global warming affects everyone. Even the rich folks.