Bush: 'Significant progress' on climate change

[Terri]

By DEB RIECHMANN
Associated Press
July 9, 2008

TOYAKO, Japan (AP) -- President Bush on Wednesday hailed the move by G-8 leaders to coalesce behind a broad climate-change strategy, saying in a valedictory to summitry that "significant progress" has been made on global warming.

"In order to address climate change, all major economies must be at the table, and that's what took place today," Bush said at the conclusion of the summit of leading industrialized nations â€" talks that he said also strove to advance free trade and combat hunger and disease around the world, particularly in Africa.

The global warming statement represented quite a progression for Bush, who in his first term disputed scientists' assertions about this problem. At his final G-8 summit as president, and heartily backed a declaration saying that greenhouse gas emissions should be cut in half by the middle of the century.

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[schillerbjr]

Here is where President Bush and I "disagree"!





Is a "barf bag" available???

[Amawalk John]

Isn't it about time in this farce for the little child to ask in a small, clear voice, "the emperor has no clothes"?

Recent measurements indicate the earth has been cooling, the lack of sunspot activity indicates a reduction of solar energy and therefore cooler weather, Antarctic ice is expanding , as is the glacier on California's Mt. Shasta.

Hello! I'm beginning to understand the kind of frustration Galileo and Copernicus must have felt as they tried to explain the solar centric nature of the solar system. Maybe all science is political.

[ds77]

According to past geological records of the past 100,000 years of ice age occurrences, we are due for another one...so even if global warming is true; i think its time to start warming the planet as much as possible...oh yah, wasnt there a report that global warming could start another ice age....hmm...we cant win no matter what we do.

[qrayjack]

This administration did not believe in global warming.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Nor the Easter Bunny, nor bigfoot, nor ET, nor... global warming.

Maybe all science is political.

And there's nothing scientific about politics. Speaking of Galileo and Copernicus, how long before the Chicken Little Gang resurrects burning at the stake for GW nonbelivers.