Bush weighs in against Senate climate bill

(AP) -- President Bush weighed in Monday against a Senate bill that would require dramatic cuts in climate-changing greenhouse pollution, cautioning senators "to be very careful about running up enormous costs for future generations of Americans."

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• adam81 - Jun 03, 2008
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  GLOBAL WARMING CAUSED BY MAN NADE CO2!
  
  what rubbish, all the relevant research (meaning research carried out by people not getting paid by green activists and tax hungry government departments) suggests that human CO2 emmissions are so low (relatively speaking) when compared to natural production as to be negligible, and to counter the inevitable 'but accumulatively' argument we only have to look at volcano eruptions, the average volcano eruption produces a million times the amount of CO2 produced by all human activities from when they began to present day, so if 'accumulatively' our emissions could make such a big difference, then one single volcano eruption would cause immediate and irreparable damage to our atmosphere, raising the global temperature to deadly levels, HAS THIS HAPPENED?
  No, put simply, we humans ARE to blame for global warming trends, but not because of our use of fossil fuels (since these are too low to cause damage) but because we cut down the only thing stopping this gas from building up in the atmosphere, TREES, deforestation is what is causing global warming not industry, not cars, stop deforestation, plant more trees, stop global warming!!!
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• lowbatteries - Jun 05, 2008
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  To the poster above: trees don't do the majority of the world's CO2 scrubbing, most is done by plankton in the oceans. Trees and plankton only take carbon out of the atmosphere while they are alive, as soon as they die they rot and the CO2 is released. We are digging carbon out of the ground and burning it, adding a whole new source of CO2 that didn't naturally exist. The reason CO2 levels are much lower now than they were in the age of the dinosaurs is because of coal/oil/limestone and other natural sequestration of carbon.
  
  That said - more trees, less oil, more human ingenuity instead of the status quo - all of these are needed.
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• 1bigschwantz - Jun 05, 2008
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  Human ingenuity, fine! But your not going to get much of that if you clobber the economy....and who cares,, if we solve global warming, the coming armageddon from global water shortages will kill us now! http://www.telegr...r105.xml
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• lowbatteries - Jun 05, 2008
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  "The economy! The economy!" and "Armageddon!". Sounds like American politics to me.
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• adam81 - Jun 06, 2008
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  Low batteries, good post, but it still doesn't answer the riddle of volcanic eruption. human activity accounts for less than 0.001% of all CO2 produced worldwide, one single volcano eruption releases more than a million times the total output of all human activity since humans started using fuels, so why is the world not baked to a crisp everytime a volcano erupts?
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