30 issues: is it getting hot in here?
Wednesday, October 20, 2004 - 04:15 PM
Last August, the President's US Climate Change Science Program released a report that indicated that man-made carbon dioxide emissions are in fact responsible for global warming. Coming from an administration that had thrown doubt on the science behind global warming, this seemed to signal a major policy shift.
You might say Bush came closer to the Kerry position, but if that was so, it wasn't apparent in the second presidential debate.
SEN. KERRY: They've pulled out of the Global Warming, declared it dead, didn't even accept the science.
I'm going to be a president who believes in science.
MR. GIBSON: Mr. President?
PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, had we joined the Kyoto Treaty -- which I guess he's referring to -- it would have cost America a lot of jobs. It's one of these deals where in order to be popular in the halls of Europe you sign a treaty. But I thought it would cost a lot of -- I think there's a better way to do it.
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