Bush Aide - No Need To Try And Limit Temperature Increase To 2C - WP

[hatrack]

The president's top science adviser said yesterday there is no solid scientific evidence that the widely cited goal of limiting future global temperature rises to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is necessary to avert dangerous climate change, an assertion that runs counter to that of many scientists as well as the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

John H. Marburger III, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said at a news conference that the target of preventing Earth from warming more than two degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, "is going to be a very difficult one to achieve and is not actually linked to regional events that affect people's lives."

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Marburger said that while there is general agreement that human activity is producing too much carbon dioxide and "you could have emerging disasters long before you get to two degrees. . . . There is no scientific criterion for establishing numbers like that." President Bush convened a meeting of delegates from the world's major economies last month in an effort to begin discussing what to adopt at as the long-term goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But he and his advisers have yet to say what that goal will be.

Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, backs the goal of limiting future temperature rise to two degrees Celsius and said the administration needs to define its own goal if it rejects those of other world leaders.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/18/AR2007101802243.html

[acmavm]

1. bush** has a science adviser? Coulda fooled me.

[phantom power]

4. well, he's got a political lackey who hold the title "science advisor"

SOP, for BushCo.

[woodsprite]

7. Actually, he was the 'pooper scooper' in the stables working

for "Heck of a job" Brownie. n/t

[Hydra]

2. It's the "New Science"

I guess it's kind of like the "new democrats"-not quite the same as the original.

[Avalux]

3. "Bush science advisor" is an oxymoron.

There isn't a scientist worth a damn who would associate with Bushco. If Marburger is going tho make such statements, then he'd better provide the proof. He can't.

[XemaSab]

5. "not actually linked to regional events that affect people's lives..."

Right, asshole.

:grr: :banghead:

[phantom power]

6. Yeah, tell it to the South-East. Or Idaho. Or Australia. Or North Korea.

Or Greenland...

[kestrel91316]

8. Yeah. The lack of water in Georgia is nothing unusual, and it won't

affect anyone who matters, so we can safely ignore it.

And who gives a s--- about the Aussies or Koreans????

:sarcasm:

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. I think we should put this on billboards around the Gulf Coast

[hunter]

10. Remember, you apologize to Dick Cheney if he shoots you in the face.

All those people who are getting slammed by global warming will have a whole lot of apologizing to do.

[greenman3610]

11. this much is absolutely true

"you could have emerging disasters long before you get to two degrees. . . . There is no scientific criterion for establishing numbers like that."

Nature is showing us the truth of this right now.