Friday, April 18, 2008

More Bush climate con


With only nine months left in office, President George W. Bush seems determined to con the public until his very last day in the White House.

This week, the president turned in another bravura performance in fakery. He tied up TV time with nonsensical drivel about newfound concern for greenhouse gases that are slowly choking the planet.

A simple test exposes the president's dishonesty. If he's so concerned about polluted air, why has he blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from complying with a U.S. Supreme Court order to take aggressive measures to clean up greenhouse gases by reducing carbon dioxide emissions?

Wednesday's speech was a sham, merely an attempt to head off accelerating congressional efforts to preempt the president with mandatory emission standards on industry and automobiles.

Under the president's blurry proposals, emission standards wouldn't be triggered until the year 2025. In other words, industry and automakers could continue to poison the air for another 17 years. Then what? The president did not say.

He also talked of funding development of "clean coal" and its abundance. But no comparable funding has been committed to a far more abundant source of energy—power from the sun.

Instead of retiring with the reputation of fiercely attacking air and water pollution, Bush will be remembered for helping poison the planet so industry could avoid the expenses of better emission controls.

The expense to human health and damage to the earth's ability to sustain life will be criminal.




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