Overdue Bush Climate Report for U.N. Shows U.S. Greehouse Gases Skyrocketing

[Hissyspit]

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2007/2007-03-05-03.asp

Bush Climate Report Shows U.S. Greenhouse Gases Skyrocketing

WASHINGTON, DC, March 5, 2007 (ENS) - The United States will emit about 20 percent more greenhouse gases by 2020 than it did in 2000, according to a draft report that the Bush administration was scheduled to submit to the United Nations a year ago.

The internal administration report, which was obtained by the Associated Press, estimates that U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases from the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas will rise from 7.7 billion tons in 2000 to 9.2 billion tons in 2020 - an increase of 19.5 percent.

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President Bush has said that abiding by the Kyoto Protocol would hurt the U.S. economy. He has argued that voluntary emissions reductions and better technology such as clean coal, nuclear power, and energy efficiency would do the job of limiting global warming.

U.S. scientists, businesses and environmental groups say that if irreversible global warming is to be avoided, binding targets even more stringent than those of the Kyoto Protocol should be set.

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[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. We don't manufacture shit in this country any more and still emissions are rising?

I know, it's more than factory smokestacks but there's still something odd about it.

[yardwork]

2. We hit the trifecta!

Outsourcing manufacturing, deficits through the ceiling, and we're still consuming energy like there's no tomorrow.