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Plus ça change, …

… plus c’est la meme chose. 

Well, much to probably nobody's surprise, the present President of the United States has once again distinguished himself by being just about the only top political leader in the industrialized democracies who doesn't subscribe to the belief that climate change is upon us, will overwhelm us if we don't act more vigorously than we have, and that the only way to get at this is to have significant mandatory curbs, in the very near term, on greenhouse gas emissions.  One writer at the hippie environmentalist magazine, "Business Week," said, in this piece, "President Bush has a habit of promising action on climate change‚ and then not delivering."  Dan Froomkin, a columnist for the radical left-wing "Washington Post," said in Bush's Third Climate-Change Fake-Out, "Taking a brief break from all the papal pomp, President Bush today rolls out yet another wave of climate-change flim-flam."  Reuters reports that Bush climate plan said too little, too late, quoting German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel, "The president gave a disappointing speech."  The title of the minister's press release was "Gabriel criticises Bush's Neanderthal speech. Losership, not Leadership."  Ouch.

What's the plan?  According to Himself:  "Today, I’m announcing a new national goal: to stop the growth of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2025." 

According to most of the nearly fifteen hundred news articles at Yahoo, and your humble blogger, that ain't going to feed the bulldog.

 

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Bill Hewitt

Bill Hewitt has been an environmental activist and professional for nearly 25 years. He was deeply involved in the battle to curtail acid rain, and was also a Sierra Club leader in New York City. He spent 11 years in public affairs for the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation, and worked on environmental issues for two NYC mayoral campaigns and a presidential campaign. He is a writer and editor and is the principal of Hewitt Communications. He has an M.S. in international affairs, has taught political science at Pace University, and has graduate and continuing education classes on climate change, sustainability, and energy and the environment at The Center for Global Affairs at NYU. His book, "A Newer World - Politics, Money, Technology, and What’s Really Being Done to Solve the Climate Crisis," will be out from the University Press of New England in December.



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the policy, politics, science and economics of environmental protection, sustainability, energy and climate change

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