Why does Bush care about global warming?

Question

He talked about increased emissions of CO2 in the air...does he realize that humans actually have an impact on the environement? Will the rest of you nay sayers follow suit now that a republican said it?

as a libertarian, i take presonal responsibility and don't require government to intervene...now if everyone else was that way we would be better off...unfortunately I live here in reality and not in some la la land where people actually do their part. And I am glad that bush is asking people to take some personal responsibility instead of proposing legislation to force it to be so. And I don't espouse conspiracy theories. But thanks for trying!

Answer 1

I was wondering the same thing.. all those people trying to debunk it just got a major slap in the face... 20% reduction by 2017!! .. I could hope for more.. but that's not a bad start :)

Answer 2

I do not know if Bush thinks that humans have an impact on global warming or not. I believe that Bush will support caps on carbon emissions because large corporations have now told him they want these regulations. It always makes me laugh when the media states something like, look now even large companies want caps placed on carbon emissions, so CO2 must be impacting the environment.

Shouldn't the media be just as spectacle about large corporations' motives about wanting CO2 regulations as they are about everything else these "evil" corporations do? Every entity or corporation has an angle or motivation for doing anything, and these motives are almost always self-serving and seldom, if ever, done for the greater good. All you have to do is scratch the surface as to why large corporations now want these regulations and it is obvious it has nothing to do with their desire to "save the environment."

If the government enacts CO2 regulation, this helps large corporations stifle any future competitors. Any new government mandated regulation makes it hard for an emerging company to compete with larger, well established corporations. The added bureaucracy and red tape that results for any new regulations can easily be handled by large companies. All they have to do is create a new department explicitly for processing problems introduced by the new regulations. However, new companies will have a difficult time entering a particular market segment, since they do not have the same financial resources as their larger counterparts. The harder it is to break into a market segment the less competition large corporations that domain that particular segment will have. Of course, with less competition that ultimately means higher prices for the end consumers. Besides the lack of competition, these new regulation mean even higher prices for consumers, since the extra overhead large corporations will have to incur to comply with these new regulations will, again, ultimately be passed on to the end consumers.

Regardless of Bush's believes regarding global warming, any government regulations are bad for working class Americans. Of course, you being a libertarian already know this.

Answer 3

I invented Republican Climate Change Awareness. About a month after I invented the internet.

Answer 4

I'm still a nay-sayer in fact I'm disappointed in Bush for caving in to environmental extremests.

Answer 5

actually,I think that it's the population of the globe which contributes the most CO2 just from exhalation.reduce the population,reduce CO2.
haha,it's the Chinese

Answer 6

Oops, just noticed that you already asked this after I just posted a similar Q. Good job!

Let's see what the reponse from the doubters is. I'm guessing they'll scratch their heads and say "well if W says it's true then it must be true".

Answer 7

He still doesn't believe it despite the mountains of evidence. Would you expect anything different from a man who thinks he is judge, jury, and executioner to the world?