Bush's Climate Follies.(environmental policy of George W. Bush)
American Prospect, The, July, 2001 by GELBSPAN, ROSS
By withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol--the attempt by 160 nations to forge a treaty that will reduce worldwide emissions from coal combustion and oil burning, thus averting a global-warming catastrophe--President George W. Bush trashed years of work by European negotiators just as he was about to make his European diplomatic debut.
By declaring climate science "unsettled" and calling on the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to review the dire findings of the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he made an even greater ...
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