The L.A. Times has a piece on the laughable farce that is the Bush administration climate meetings, which will take place later this week. Some funny quotes:
"It is the first in what we hope will be a series of meetings," said Dan Price, a deputy national security advisor for international economic affairs. "Those are not issues you discuss and resolve in two days."
Well maybe ... uh, how to say this without profanity ... you should have started discussing and resolving before now.
European environment ministers meeting with U.S. senators on Tuesday praised the president for getting involved in the fight to keep average temperatures from climbing so high that droughts, flooding and other upheavals roil the planet and threaten human life.
This is kind of how elementary school teachers praise Johnny the quasi-autistic kid with self-control problems for going a whole week without biting another kid.
"Congress is waking up," [Denmark environment minister Connie] Hedegaard said. She said she was glad, "because we are getting a little bit impatient."
Love that careful diplomatic language.
This one takes the cake, though:
Not everyone is convinced that quick action is necessary or even prudent. Scott H. Segal, a Washington lobbyist for utilities, cautioned that caps might have unintended consequences ...
"We spent 20 years debating climate science," he said. "We need to spend a little quality time thinking about climate policy."
Hmmm ... now why did we spend 20 years debating the science? Anything come to mind? Think Segal's clients had anything to do with it?
But yeah, after 20 years of fruitless kabuki debate over settled science, let's go ahead and spend another 20 years debating whether capping carbon emissions is the best way to prevent carbon emissions from going up. It seems intuitively obvious now, but wait until Segal's clients get involved in the debate. Looking forward to that quality time!
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sunflower Posted 9:11 am
26 Sep 2007
The sands of la times
Best global warming joke yet.
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Sam Wells Posted 12:00 pm
26 Sep 2007
Come on ...
... tell us another boner ... I mean you're making this up, right?
Onward through the fog
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Elsa Mary Posted 3:49 pm
26 Sep 2007
lmao
awesome post
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randino Posted 11:20 pm
26 Sep 2007
I heard about it,
I laughed. I forgot about it. There is only one date that we should take seriously on climate politics. That is January 20, 2009. When we finally get rid of the prick. And god help us, and the planet if we get another GOP president in office. If that happens, then I will reconsider my scepticism regarding the Book of Revelations, because the anti-Christ will truly be on the throne.
Randy Cunningham
Randy Cunningham
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JoshS Posted 11:30 pm
26 Sep 2007
not helpful...
How effective do you think continuing to call those who deny climate change jackasses or whatever will be in finding a solution?
If you care about fixing this impending disaster, you take a seat at the table, even if it's with the ecological equivalent of the devil. Otherwise, you're just fodder for the fire.
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randino Posted 12:17 am
27 Sep 2007
True, provided that
the devil admits there is a problem, and that something should be done about it. Otherwise there are a few hundred other things you could be doing that would be more effective. But, what the hell, we are talking about a bunch of diplomats and they are used to spinning their wheels, sitting across the table from people who haven't the slightest intention of doing anything about the problem on the agenda. See Darfur. Ask the Iranians. Look at all the problems these stupid world summits have not solved.
There is one reason that Bush is doing this. His name is Arnold and his office is in Sacramento. The Terminator is at the vanguard of a whole class of Republican governors and other local officials who have not drunk the denier Kool Aid that has always been in the White House refrigerator under this administration. They are not former oil or coal men. That is why the devil is at the table.
Randy Cunningham
Randy Cunningham
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