Bush and the Environment: State Dept. (!) Puts Forth the Facts
What’s the left going to do if the State Department continues to cooperate with the Administration like this (HT CCnet EXTRA e-mail)?
Post-Kyoto Surprise: America’s Quiet Efforts to Cut Greenhouse Gases Are Producing Results
Kurt Volker, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs
Remarks at the German Marshall Fund
Berlin, Germany
February 12, 2007But let me start out with some clear, simple statements:
- We agree that human activity contributes to global warming. (Oh well, nobody’s perfect. — Ed. :–>)
- We support the recent IPCC report, in which U.S. scientists played a leading role. (Despite the hype, an OpinionJournal.com editorial on February 5 noted that despite the hype surrounding the IPCC press release, “the underlying (not yet released) scientific report ….. contains startling revisions of previous U.N. predictions. Surely State knows this. — Ed.)
- We are committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
- We have made tremendous investments in reducing emissions.
- We are working multilaterally to do so.
- We are continuing these efforts.
- These efforts are producing results that stand up favorably against anyone in the world.
Just because we haven’t joined the Kyoto Protocol doesn’t make any of these statements less true.
I thought State was the temporary internationalist home of the “loyal” (?) opposition to Republican presidents. Unfortunately, it usually is, but at least not this time.
