Re: Has global warming overheated Bush's brain?

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From: zzbunker
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 01:07

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Roger Coppock wrote:
> Has global warming overheated Bush's brain?
> Dec. 5, 2005. 06:35 AM
> LINWOOD BARCLAY, The Toronto Star
>
> How could it be that President George W. Bush, whose country has been
> plagued by murderously hot summers, melting glaciers up in Alaska, and
> catastrophic hurricanes in the gulf states, is not the slightest bit
> interested in tackling the problem of climate change?
> This past week, in Montreal, there were delegates from all over the
> world, meeting and discussing ways to stop global warming, or at the
> very least, slowing the pace at which it is getting worse. And which
> country wasn't interested in putting in its two cents' worth of
> unleaded to find solutions? The United States.
> For some time now, I've been puzzling over this one, this lack of
> interest on Bush's part, and for awhile there I had it narrowed down to
> four things:
> a) He's not all that bright.

    Well the last  US President that could be called
    environmentally briight was Teddy Roosevelt.
    And that was only because he *stopped*
    construction in Los Angelos.



> b) Whenever climate change comes up during the President's Daily Brief,
> it's at the same time Dick Cheney does his Colin Powell impression
> ("Oh, gee, we better be careful!"), at which point everyone clutches
> their sides and falls over laughing.

   But Cheney's from Nebraska, they don't have a climate,
   they got Idaho.and The Washington Redskins by
   10 points on the Vegas Spread Sheet.

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