Double Speak on Climate Change

[dmuja]

 

 

In response to NYT reporter Andrew C. Revkin's question on how the Bush admin will actually help bring about (as Bush himself stated) "the stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate”, James L. Connaughton, Mr. Bush’s top environmental aide responded with the following:

 

 

In the absence of being able to make that policy call at this time on dangerous interference, what we’re doing as an interim measure is working bottom up to see how aggressive can we be in finding a pathway to low-carbon power generation from coal, because that accounts for more than 50 percent of emissions; how aggressive can we be in transitioning to a much greater diversity of fuel supply than petroleum, and vehicle technology, and that’s 20 percent of emissions; and then what can we do much more rapidly to halt deforestation, which is 20 percent of emissions.

 

 

Gosh, I'm so glad they're on the job. What leadership!

 

 

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