We can’t afford any more shallow rhetoric. Time is running out.

“There is no revolution in global warming policy in anything the president is proposing, no matter how the White House tries to spin it.”

Bush went on television to tell the American people he has a plan to help with global warming. This comes from a man who denied the existence of global warming for the past six years. So what is he up to? Why has he allowed MORE GLOBAL WARMING problems to occur over the course of his presidency? Why has he appointed a former head of Exxon as our nation’s energy chief? Why does he continue to fight for rights for oil companies? Experts know that Bush’s expertise is in lip service. His so-called initiatives won’t do the trick. Bush is an oil man and his constituents run businesses that cause the most air pollution and global warming. But you can’t fool all the people all the time. Americans aren’t buying what he’s saying. His lower than 28 percent approval rating belies his rhetoric.

CNN…On Monday [January 22, 2007], a group of leading business executives met in Washington and called for steps to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The White House said Bush’s proposals would stop the growth of carbon dioxide emissions from cars, light trucks and sport-utility vehicles within 10 years.

But Philip Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust, said they would do “almost nothing” to slow the pace of global warming.

“There is no revolution in global warming policy in anything the president is proposing, no matter how the White House tries to spin it,” Clapp said in a written statement. “The numbers are calculated to sound big and impressive, but the president is being just as intransigent on global warming as he is on Iraq – ignoring Congress, major business leaders and the public, who have called for action.”

The president has used his annual address to Congress to call for cleaner energy before. But in 2004, the Environmental Protection Agency conceded that greenhouse gas emissions went up in the two years since Bush vowed to cut them by 18 percent over 10 years. The EPA blamed the increase on greater economic growth.

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