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Collins misoverestimates Bush NYT columnist gives president too much credit on climate, which ain't hard	David Roberts	19 Apr 2008	Gristmill
New York Times columnist Gail Collins begins today's piece with a glaring error. She says: Didn't know we had any goals for curbing global warming? Where were you in 2002 when the president put us on the road toward reducing the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent by 2012? Now, Collins spends the rest of the column deriding that goal, and the new goal Bush announced on Wed., as she should: both goals are worth deriding. But that wasn't what Bush an ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, regulation (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	18 Apr 2008	Gristmill
'I think some people have overlooked the major news that the President made yesterday, which was committing a national economy-wide goal to halt carbon emissions.' -- White House spokesflack Tony Fratto, confusing a policy that would allow unrestrained growth of carbon emissions for the next 17 years for one that would 'halt' carbon emissions
Topics: climate, funnies, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, insanity, politics, quotables (all these topics)

Same as it ever was Thoughts on Bush's latest speech on climate change	David Roberts	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
The whole media world is in a frenzy, yet again, over a Bush speech on climate change. A new strategy! An effort to secure a legacy! Exciting new principles and goals! Even my own bosses are pressing me to come up with a thoughtful reaction. Sigh. I hate to be the party-pooper. But we've been here before. How many times does Lucy expect us to try to kick this football? Here are the three things you need to know about Bush's speech -- the same three things you neede ...
Topics: climate, economy, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, regulation, shenanigans (all these topics)

Bush on climate President Bush's speech on climate change, 16 April 2008, as prepared for delivery	David Roberts	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Just over the transom, from the White House: This afternoon the President will deliver a statement in which he sets a new intermediate national goal for stopping the growth of greenhouse gas emissions. The President's announcement comes as this week's Major Economies Meeting in Paris begins to lay the groundwork for the world leaders' climate meeting to be held in conjunction with the upcoming G-8 Summit. The President's remarks will also inform the ...
Topics: climate, economy, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, regulation (all these topics)

Bush to give speech on climate change strategy	David Roberts	15 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Just over the wires from AP: President Bush is giving a Rose Garden speech on Wednesday on climate change to lay out the way he thinks the U.S. can reduce greenhouse gas emissions. White House press secretary Dana Perino says that Bush will not outline a specific proposal, but instead will spell out a strategy for long-term goals for curbing emissions. Bush wants every major economy, including China and India, to establish a national goal for cutting the emiss ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

George W. Bush: the President of Mars Take care of Earth before ruining other planets	Joseph Romm	08 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- One of the great ironies of our time is this: We have learned to walk on the Moon, but we haven't yet learned to walk on the earth. It is an irony that is fast devolving into a tragedy. Since the first man landed on the Moon in 1969, we have continued dumping greenhouse gases into the earth's atmosphere and making our planet less habitable. ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

Hey, Look Over There! U.S., avoiding action at current climate meeting, announces new climate meeting		06 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 3:38 PM on 06 Dec 2007 President Bush has announced a climate-change meeting in Hawaii next month for 17 of the world's major greenhouse-gas emitters to talk about setting goals for curbing emissions. The meeting is a follow-up to an anticlimactic summit that Bush hosted in late September. Oddly enough, during the pivotal climate-change meeting going on in Bali right this red-hot minu ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, news, politics (all these topics)

GOP analyst: Democrats now must compromise on global warming Hold the applause on the administration's	Kit Stolz	23 Jun 2007	Gristmill
On a new blog called Terra Rossa -- 'Where Conservatives Consider a New Energy Future' -- GOP consultant Whit Ayres argues that when President Bush at the G8 summit declared his willingness to 'seriously consider' carbon emission reductions over the next forty years, he took a 'major step' in the direction of his environmental critics. Says Ayres: I don't think anyone could argue that conservatives are not trying to compromise on the issue. While many conservative voter ...
Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

Bush's dumb luck on emissions They went down because of random factors, not Bush	Joseph Romm	24 May 2007	Gristmill
U.S. carbon dioxide emissions dropped 1.3% in 2006, as the Energy Information Administration reported yesterday. President Bush immediately took credit: "We are effectively confronting the important challenge of global climate change through regulations, public-private partnerships, incentives, and strong economic investment." [Please, no laughing.] In spite of the fact that Bush has actually gutted programs aimed at the promoting clean energ ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

I do not think it means what you think it means	David Roberts	03 Apr 2007	Gristmill
President Bush "said he took climate change very seriously Tuesday, a day after the US Supreme Court ruled the government must regulate greenhouse gases." In other news, President Bush "said on Tuesday he planned no new action to impose caps on greenhouse gases blamed for global warming."
Topics: George Bush, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, politics (all these topics)

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