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<P><B><font size="±l"1>President Bush Rejects Climate Change
<b>By Cat Lazaroff</b><p>
is distancing itsel
<b>WASHINGTON, DC,</b> June 5, 2002 (ENS) - The White House
humans are causing
f from the Bush administration's first report to admit that
Agency, while ack
climate changes. The report from the Environmental Protection
nowledging that human activities lead to global warming, argues that it is bett
er to adapt to the changes than to try and stop them.
communication to the Uni
In "Climate Action Report 2002,"1 the third formal U.S.
the EPA wrote, "Gr
ted Nations under the Framework Convention on Climate Change
eenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of human acti
ocean temper
vities, causing global mean surface air temperature and subsurface
ature to rise."
ALT="Bush" WID
<IMG SRC="../pics22/bushspeaks.jpg" ALIGN=left HSPACE=2 VSPACE=2
report a product
TH=130 HETGHT=127><HS>President George W. Bush called the EPA
of a "bureaucracy." <SMALL>(Photo courtesy The White House)</SMALL></H5>
in the Bush admin
Conservation groups hailed the report as representing a shift
istration's attitude toward scientific studies showing that the burning of foss
of heat trappi
il fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal is creating a blanket
ng gasses around the planet.
to the new r
But on Tuesday, a day after news agencies gave widespread coverage
eport, President George W. Bush dismissed the report as having been "put out by
the bureaucracy."
the position he has
"I do not support the Kyoto treaty," Bush said, reiterating
the United St
held since his election. "The Kyoto treaty would severely damage
we put out, tha
ates economy, and I don't accept that. I accept the alternative improve
t we can grow our economy and, at the same time, through technologies,
our environment."
added that the pr
Later the same day, White House press secretary Ani Fleischer
esident believes that there is "considerable uncertainty relating to the scien
ce of climate change."
that any 'definiti
"This report submitted to the United Nations also recognizes
ye prediction of potential outcomes is not yet feasible' and that, 'one of the
and regional pr
weakest links in our knowledge is the connection between global
edictions of climate change'," Fleischer added.
VSPACE=2 ALT="Sha
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could reduce
sta Reservoir" WIDTH=250 HEIGHT=l55><H5>Changing snowfall patterns
the amount of runoff water from spring thaws available to fill reservoirs like
Shasta Lake, behind the Shasta Dam in California.
(NOAA))</sma
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ll></115>
are expected to i
The EPA report warns that total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions
ncrease by 43 percent between 2000 and 2020, despite Bush administration progra
and the use of
ms to encourage voluntary reductions in greenhouse gas emissions
technology to store or sequester excess carbon dioxide (C02).
reducing fresh
This rise in emissions will disrupt rain and snowfall patterns,
water supplies in reservoirs fed by melting snow, the EPA report projects. rang
centers, and co
erous heat waves will strike with increasing frequency in urban
astal wetlands, homes and businesses may be inundated by rising sea levels.
warns.
Some natural habitats could disappear completely, the report
and some barni
'A few ecosystems, such as alpine meadows in the Rocky Mountains
er islands, are likely to disappear entirely in some areas,' states the report.
experience majo
"Other ecosystems, such as southeastern forests, are likely to
r species shifts or break up into a mosaic of grasslands, woodlands and forests
VSPACE=2 ALT="1we
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tland" WTDTH=169 HETGHT=250><H5>Coastal wetlands like the Florida Everglades co
uld vanish due to rising sea levels, the EPA says.
of Engineering)
<small>4Photo courtesy Florida International University College
</small></H5>
can be done
Some of these changes have already begun, the EPA says, and little
to climate
to stop them. "Natural ecosystems appear to be the most vulnerable
change because generally little can be done to help them adapt," the report say
S.
or fragmentation
'Some of the goods and services lost through the disappearance
of natural ecosystems are likely to be costly or impossible to replace," adds
the report.
that the U.S. ad
Despite this dire prognosis, the EPA report does not recommend
opt the emissions reductions required by the Kyoto Protocol, which President Bu
the projected effe
sh abandoned last year. in fact, the EPA argues that many of
cts of global warming in the United States could be positive.
producti
The EPA predicts that global warming will likely increase agricultural
vity in many regions by boosting rainfall in regions that grow cotton, citrus f
ruit, sorghum and soybeans.
distributed pre
"Based on studies to date, unless there is inadequate or poorly
segments of t
cipitation, the net effects of climate change on the agricultural
he U.S. economy over the 21st century are generally projected to be positive,"
the report concludes.
ALT="beach"
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ding as sea levels rise. 5
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that the rep
The EPA recommends that humans work on adapting to climate changes
ort calls "inevitable," rather than spending money and other resources in futil
greenhouse gas em
e attempts to prevent the global warming caused by decades of
issions.
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natural climate variability,
"Because of the momentum in the climate system and
the EPA says. "The question is
adapting to a changing climate is inevitable,"
whether we adapt poorly or well."
to global warming are "increas
Among the suggested tactics to help humans adapt
health impacts of heat waves
ed availability of air conditioning" to reduce the
actions to reduce the impact
Other nations are prepared to take more proactive
of global warming. On Tuesday, Japan ratified the Kyoto Protocol, following clo
members of the European Unio
se on the heels of Friday's ratification by the 15
as possible."
n. Russia has said it will ratify the pact "as soon
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W1DTH=250 flETGHT=l34><H5>High elevation alpine meadows like this one in Steamb
climate warms.
oat Springs, Colorado, could disappear as the U.S.
<small> (Photo courtesy High Mleadows Ranch)</small></H5>
of carbon dioxide (C02), the m
The United States is the world's largest emitter
fuels and the main cause of g
ajor heat trapping gas released by burning fossil
round out the top four C02
lobal warming. The European Union, Russia and Japan
emitters.
be ratified by at least 55
For the protocol to become legally binding, it must
at least 55 percent of the
countries and by industrialized nations that emitted
it could take effect bef
world's C02 in 1990. If Russia ratifies the protocol,
ore the end of the year.
to reducing their emissions
The countries that ratify the Kyoto Protocol commit
of carbon dioxide to an average of 5.2 percent below 1990 levels during the fi
ye year period 2008 to 2012.
for the agreement, the United
Because President flush has withdrawn U.S. support
emissions reductions.
States would not be bound by the protocol's required
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