(Photo of President Bush from Flickr and talkradionews.)
Washington Round-up: President Bush today called for stopping the growth of greenhouse gases by the year 2025 and halting such growth in the power sector within 10-15 years.
As expected, his announcement set the goal way too late, “dangerously late,” as Senate Energy Chair Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) put it.
Scientists say the world needs to cut GHG 15-20% by 2020 to prevent the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said if CO2 peaks in 2015 the earth’s temperature will rise 4.3 degrees above pre-industrial times. Bush would allow the growth to continue 10 years beyond that.
By comparison, the European Union has vowed to cut carbon emissions 20% (below 1990 levels) by 2020.
And the Lieberman-Warner global warming bill in the Senate asks for a 19% cut by 2020.
The Bush announcement shows he’s even more out of touch on this than we thought he was. His position is laughable. He also offered no specifics on how to reach the goal, other than new technologies and market solutions.
The president took the occasion to signal his intent to oppose the Lieberman-Warner bill. (Sources: Reuters, E&ENewsPM, ABCNews)
1 comment:
Dear Cynthia,
I think, this performances and achievements are the most, what we could expect from the President. He was born in oil family and he is a hair of family oil empire, as well. I think he is doing the best to protect interests of 'oil lobby', worldwide by using his leveraged powers as a President.
p.s.
Election time is already here.
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