Bush Admits Global Warming Does Exist, Recommends No Action Be Taken

Bush Climate Plan Says Adapt to Inevitable
Cutting Gas Emissions Not Recommended

Andrew C. Revkin - New York Times | SF Gate

Monday, 3 June, 2002

In a stark shift for the Bush administration, the United States has sent a climate report to the United Nations detailing specific and far-reaching effects it says global warming will inflict on the American environment.

In the report, the administration also for the first time places most of the blame for recent global warming on human actions -- mainly the burning of fossil fuels that send heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

But while the report says the United States will be substantially changed in the next few decades -- "very likely" seeing the disruption of snow-fed water supplies, more stifling heat waves and the permanent disappearance of Rocky Mountain meadows and coastal marshes, for example -- it does not propose any major shift in the administration's policy on greenhouse gases.

Instead, it recommends adapting to inevitable changes instead of making rapid and drastic reductions in greenhouse gases to limit warming, which is the approach favored by many environmental groups and countries seeking to enact the Kyoto Protocol, a climate treaty written during the Clinton administration that was rejected by Bush.

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