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Summit like it hot G8 leaders head to Hokkaido where Bush and his sherpa will provide climate guidance	Kate Sheppard	02 Jul 2008	Gristmill
On Monday, George W. Bush will travel to Hokkaido, Japan, for his eighth and final G8 summit, where climate change is likely to be the subject of heated (ahem) talks. At last year's meeting, leaders agreed to seriously consider a goal of cutting global greenhouse-gas emissions 50 percent by 2050. But the Bush administration continues to resist mandatory targets, and in a speech on Wednesday, Bush made sure to again emphasize 'technologies' over regulation. 'I'll ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, G8, George Bush, international treaties, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Mildly different Are McCain's environmental views really so far from Bush's?	David Roberts	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The New York Times' Elisabeth Bumiller says, "On the environment ... Mr. McCain has strikingly different views from Mr. Bush." Is that true? Bush wants unstinting federal support and pork for the nuclear industry. He supports "clean coal." He is against raising CAFE standards on automobiles or boosting efficiency and performance standards on other individual economic sectors. He supports removing the moratorium on offshore drilling. He believes in ...
Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, John McCain, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Notable quotable I procrastinate too, but this is ridiculous	David Roberts	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'I think we can get a global agreement on climate change during my presidency -- just so you know.' -- President George W. Bush
Topics: climate, dumbassery, George Bush, politics, quotables (all these topics)

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)

A Jolly Good Time British prime minister chats climate with Bush		17 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:25 PM on 17 Apr 2008 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was in Washington, D.C., Thursday to sit down for a chit-chat with President Bush. Brown told press that he and Bush "agreed we must work internationally to secure progress at the G8 and toward a post-Kyoto deal on climate change. ... I look forward to continuing to work with President Bush and his administration in taking it forward." (Taking what forw ...
Topics: biofuels, climate, George Bush, Gordon Brown, international politics, news, politics, presidential race 08, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Me in the Guardian	David Roberts	17 Apr 2008	Gristmill
I have a column up at the Guardian's CIF on Bush's speech last night: On Wednesday, President Bush gave a major speech on climate change policy. Sounds like the setup for a joke, right? And perhaps it is -- a joke on the national media, which went into full scramble yet again for this, the third of Bush's climate addresses. Even after seven years, mainstream journos still know so little about climate policy, and seemingly so little about this administr ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, politics, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

Same as It Ever Was Bush's unambitious climate speech bashed by other major economies		17 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 8:11 AM on 17 Apr 2008 President George W. Bush took his unambitious views and goals on climate and stuck them into one mediocre speech Wednesday. Bush called for U.S. emissions to "slow over the next decade, stop by 2025, and begin to reverse thereafter," an aim far short of what other developed countries are suggesting and what experts think is needed. He relied, as ever, on "acceler ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, George Bush, news, politics (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)

Don't Beat Around the Bush Bush prepares to give climate speech		15 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 12:56 PM on 15 Apr 2008 As suspected, President George W. Bush will spell out a strategy for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions in a speech today. According to a White House official, "He'll set a national economy-wide goal of stopping the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025," but will decline to outline a specific plan. Bush will reportedly also say that he wants to put the brakes on greenhouse-gas emission ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, George Bush, legislation, news, politics (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)

For Earth Day, Bush claims to want climate solutions Analysis: Bush announcement attempt to subvert action	Brad Johnson	14 Apr 2008	Gristmill
As David mentioned, The Washington Times reported today that 'President Bush is poised to change course and announce as early as this week that he wants Congress to pass a bill to combat global warming, and will lay out principles for what that should include.' However, 'it is not clear exactly what Mr. Bush will propose.' Although this announcement comes as we head into the Earth Day weekend, Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino claimed it's just a coincidence. Stephen Dina ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, George Bush, jackassery, politics, regulation (all these topics)

Bush to push for climate legislation?	David Roberts	14 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This is in the Washington Times, so take it with a very large grain of salt: President Bush is poised to change course and announce as early as this week that he wants Congress to pass a bill to combat global warming, and will lay out principles for what that should include. Specifics of the policy are still being fiercely debated, but Bush administration officials have told Republicans in Congress that they feel pressure to act now because they fear a com ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, politics, regulation (all these topics)

Here, Have a Grain of Salt Bush may turn about-face, ask Congress to address climate change		14 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:14 AM on 14 Apr 2008 President Bush may soon announce that he wants Congress to pass a climate-change-fightin' bill, and will lay out suggestions for what that should include as early as this week, according to the Washington Times. Republican Congressfolk reportedly are cautioning the administration not to go too crazy. The U.S.-led climate group of major economies meets this week in Paris, ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Congress, George Bush, legislation, news, 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)

Note to Newsweek McCain is closer to Bush than to the Democrats	Brad Johnson	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted at the Think Progress Wonk Room. Newsweek's cover story on the presidential candidates and global warming quotes UC Berkeley energy professor Dan Kammen, a supporter of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)'s presidential campaign: It's unusual to have a Republican candidate who openly disagrees with the Bush administration on the need for capping carbon emissions. There's more disagreement with the current administration than with each other. The idea t ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, George Bush, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Bush's sleight of hand Renewable energy subterfuge	Joseph Romm	05 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Daniel J. Weiss and Nick Kong. It was originally published on the Center for American Progress website. ----- Photo: whitehouse.gov 'Watch what we do, not we say,' Attorney General John N. Mitchell accurately warned at the dawn of the Nixon administration. This could also be a fitting epitaph for President Bush's energy policies. Despite frequent claims of support for renewable energy over the years, the record show ...
Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Bush: the uncompassionate, anti-technology president Dubious 2009 energy budget released	Joseph Romm	05 Feb 2008	Gristmill
On the heels of giving away the (decorative) centerpiece of his climate technology effort, NeverGen FutureGen, Bush released a heartless and mindless FY09 energy budget yesterday. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, sent around an email on the President's Budget Request for FY2009 (I will post budget details later). Bingaman is 'pleased to see overall growth in the DOE budget, particularly in the area of basi ...
Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, politics, tech (all these topics)

DeSmogBlog owes Obama three apologies Obama is in no way 'George Bush Lite'	Joseph Romm	06 Jan 2008	Gristmill
I am a big fan of the climate website, DeSmogBlog. So I was shocked when, the day after his unprecedented victory in Iowa, DeSmogBlog gave Barack Obama 'the inaugural 2007 SmogMaker Award for blowing smoke on global warming.' Gimme a break. How could anyone win that award any year -- let alone in its inaugural year -- when George W. Bush is still president? [Not to mention a year in which Lomborg and Inhofe continue their influential disinformation compaigns!] A ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, George Bush, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The year ahead What will it take to make 2008 great?	Joseph Romm	04 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The following guest post is by Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), originally published on Climate Progress. He is the co-author of Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy. ----- Now that our New Year's Eve party hats are put away, it's time to look to the next year in the battle against global warming. In the year 2007, some good things did indeed happen on this front. Measures significantly improving car mileage standards and promoting the growth of re ...
Topics: brilliance, carbon trading, climate, energy, George Bush, green living, innovation, politics, tech (all these topics)

Bush plays Baker, part IV Tom Carper totally knows the president	David Roberts	04 Jan 2008	Gristmill
(An on we go, in a series on the WaPo piece so bad it required numerous separate gripes.) Tom Carper would like you to know that he's a) committed on global warming, and b) tight with the president: People find all sorts of ways to lobby President Bush. Sometimes it comes in the form of a handwritten note slipped into his palm during a bill-signing ceremony. Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.) tried that last week when Bush signed energy legislation that will curb g ...
Topics: politics, climate, George Bush, messaging (all these topics)

Person of the Year Bush beats Gore, again!	Joseph Romm	20 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Until last week, this long-beloved annual tradition seemed to be a lock for one person -- Nobel laureate, itinerant educator, and media superstar Al Gore. Sadly, he only makes first runner-up this year. Like Time magazine, our Person of the Year is awarded to the person or group who "for better or for worse ... has done the most to influence the events of the year" in the climate arena. By single-handedly stopping any international action on climate a ...
Topics: George Bush, Al Gore, climate, 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)

I'm the President! No, I'm the President! George Bush fetes Al Gore in Oval Office		27 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 12:52 PM on 27 Nov 2007 Yesterday, George W. Bush fulfilled the U.S. president's traditional obligation to fete the winners of the Nobel Prize in the Oval Office -- including, of course, Peace Prize Laureate (and, in the minds of some, rightful inhabitant of said Oval Office) Al Gore. Awkward! The two men had a private 40-minute conversation in which they "talked about global warming -- the whole ti ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, George Bush, news, politics (all these topics)

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