White House downplays proposals on global warming

[jpak]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/4522762.html

WASHINGTON — Despite a strongly worded global warming report from the world's top climate scientists, the Bush administration expressed continued opposition Friday to mandatory reductions in heat-trapping "greenhouse" gases.

Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman warned against "unintended consequences" — including job losses — that he said might result if the government requires economy-wide caps on carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.

"There is a concern within this administration, which I support, that the imposition of a carbon cap in this country would — may — lead to the transfer of jobs and industry abroad (to nations) that do not have such a carbon cap," Bodman said. "You would then have the U.S. economy damaged, on the one hand, and the same emissions, potentially even worse emissions."

President Bush used the same economic reasoning when he rejected the Kyoto Protocol in 2001, an international treaty requiring 35 industrial nations to cut their global-warming gases by 5 percent on average below 1990 levels by 2012. The White House said the treaty would have cost 5 million jobs.

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[sam sarrha]

1. at this point we are simply working on it lasting 400 yrs instead of 800 years

we are pretty much screwed and cant stop it from reducing the world population to 1 billion and sea levels of 30 feet.. the world we know is dying and will soon be dead..

[Ezlivin]

3. The top 1% is ready for all hell to break loose

The other 99% is being told that "everything will be okay" and to "just go shopping".

Make no mistake: The top 1% already have their "bunkers" and other life-support stuff ready to go. And they have a huge number of sycophants to choose from who will gladly "serve" them to stay alive.

[Amonester]

6. "they have a huge number of sycophants to choose from "

Very well said.

They count on the irresponsible miscreants at the site that can't be named, most M$M employees, and all the corpocracist$ at work.

Sad, but true.

[Sal Minella]

2. So it's okay for us to skitter right along as usual, four percent of the

earth's population making 25% of the world's pollution?

[PATRICK]

4. The WH will cost 5 billion lives

but everyone will be gainfully employed as soldiers, subsistence farmers, hunter gatherers, cannibals and gravediggers.

[jpak]

5. Gee, California concluded that its global warming plan would create 83,000 new jobs

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1531324,00.html

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The economic benefits are large and calculable. In California, the world's sixth largest economy, the Climate Action Team determined that global-warming reduction would increase income by more than $4 billion while providing 83,000 new jobs. Growth will come from several sources: innovative green technologies will create high-quality jobs and new revenue streams. In addition, companies will have increased purchasing power once they decrease energy costs and reduce imports of fossil fuels. The notion that businesses will leave the state is flawed because all suppliers that sell to California are affected, not only California-based suppliers. The doomsayers just don't get it: we can harmonize economic growth and environmental benefits.

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In Germany, the renewable energy sector employs 300,000 people.

Silicon Valley is about to pounce on new PV technologies that will create hundreds (if not thousands) of new good paying jobs.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=global_warm&id=4999072

Yet another reason to impeach...