dsnodgrass

Reality check.

The Bush administration released a climate change assessment on
Thursday — four years late and pushed forward by a court order — that
said human-induced global warming will likely lead to problems like
droughts in the U.S. West and stronger hurricanes.

President George W. Bush’s stance on the issue has evolved from
denying climate science to acknowledging that global warming is
happening. In March, watchdog groups said Bush’s decision to intervene
in setting air pollution standards was part of a pattern of meddling in
environmental science.

The “Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the
United States” released on Thursday synthesized previous reports,
including those by the government’s climate change science program and
last year’s work by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change.

Laws? What laws?

According to the Global Change Research Act (1990), the government needs to issue a report on global warming every four years. However, no other report has been issued since 2000, which determined environmental groups to demand the Bush administration to fulfill its obligations.

It is well known that the Bush administration takes more of an economic approach on global warming, rather than an objective one, and that greenhouse emissions regulation is not something they support.

That’s stating the obvious. Can 2009 possibly get here quickly enough?