Bush admin. releases plan to fight global warming with technology

Tech-alekahi Tech-aheiny Ho

As part of its 2002 plan to fight global warming (what, you never heard about that one?), the Bush administration promised a technology-development plan. A mere four years later, it has arrived! To the surprise of absolutely no one, the "Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan" is largely a token gesture, a rounding up under one umbrella of existing subsidies to select industries, mainly nuclear, "clean coal," and ethanol, with targets that don't kick in until 2010. It promises $3 billion a year for various government tech programs, a mere 7 percent increase over money already appropriated for the purpose this year. The Bush climate plan -- which involves no mechanism to impose a cost on carbon dioxide emissions -- has been embraced by big-biz trade groups and panned by most everyone else. Just last week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a report saying that increasing the cost of carbon emissions is a crucial component of a cost-effective climate-change strategy. So much for that.

straight to the source: The Washington Post, Juliet Eilperin, 21 Sep 2006

straight to the CBO report: Evaluating the Role of Prices and R&D in Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions, [PDF]

straight to Bush's plan: U.S. Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan

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Heiny-ho indeed

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by Kate Sheppard at 3:02 PM on 21 Sep 2006

Selfish Americans - Let other countries destroy te

As Americans protect every inch of the environment they turn the coin for the I want lumber to build my houses, oil/gasoline to drive my cars and minerals to support my industries and products. All of these require non renewable resources.
So what do we do.
Let's get lumber from Canada, who cares that they lay waste to huge tracks of land, as long as our forests are kept virgin. And have the Phillipines and South American countries cut their forests to the ground, as long as we are pristine and ensure no American species are ahrmed.
:et Nigeria drill their off shore oil resources. But not one oil derrick offf the shores of California. Why Barabara Streisand might have to wake on her 2 ascres on the ocean to see a blighted ocean with two or three oil derricks 2 miles off shore. Let venezual destroy their poains with oil fields, but not in our pristine national parks. And not even 20 acres of land in Alaska's 1,000, of acres of national lands are ro be soiled by pirates of the oil industry.
Let Peru and Chile and the Phillipines mine the tops off hills , to get to the precious minerals we need to produce our copper pipes and brass faucets. But not one bit of soil; is to be touched in our American National lands.
Protect our land even though we need these natural resources to grow and accomodate America's growing population.
And don'tthink of us as selfish, WE ARE ENVIRONMENTALIST!!!!!

by henryjoe at 12:39 PM on 26 Sep 2006

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