Everyone who remembers their carbon emission history knows that President Bush promised while on his first campaign for President to regulate emissions, and then welshed on the promise, claiming that the Kyoto Protocols–or any similar effort–would "wreck the economy."
Since then his administration has famously employed oil industry lobbyists to rewrite scientific reports, intimidated scientists from talking to the media, and even sued to prevent states such as California and Massachusetts from acting on their own to reduce emissions.
With this record of duplicity, expecting coherence or sincerity from the White House on global warming is pointless. It’s obvious that the Bush/Cheney/Rove political machine has no intention of acting to reduce emissions (which are rising above 11% a year). It makes more sense to use a sort of scorecard of words to analyse his words scientifically.
So, from the post-Supreme Court press gaggle, here’s President Bush’s response to a question on the subject of global warming, and here’s a numerical accounting of what he said:
REFERENCES TO GREENHOUSE GASES: 5
REFERENCES TO SERIOUSNESS OF THE ISSUE: 3
REFERENCES TO AUTOMOBILES: 3
REFERENCES TO "REMEDY": 2
REFERENCES TO "EXPENSIVE": 2
REFERENCES TO "NEW TECHNOLOGY": 2
REFERENCES TO CHINA OR INDIA: 1
REFERENCES TO REGULATION OR TAX: 0
Kit Stolz 