Why do the republicans act irresponsibly when it comes to global warming and environmental pollution?

Answer 1

Presidental Environmental Initiatives:

Key Bush Environmental Accomplishments
The Bush Administration's Environmental Philosophy

The focus is on results - making our air, water, and land cleaner. We need to employ the best science and data to inform our decision-making. Our policies should encourage innovation and the development of new, cleaner technologies. We should continue to build on America's ethic of stewardship and personal responsibility through education and volunteer opportunities, and in our daily lives.
Opportunities for environmental improvements are not limited to Federal Government actions - States, tribes, local communities, and individuals must be included.
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument

On June 15, 2006, President Bush signed a proclamation that will create the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument. This national monument will enable nearly 140,000 square miles of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to receive our Nation's highest form of marine environmental protection. It honors our commitment to be good stewards of America's natural resources, shows what cooperative conservation can accomplish, and creates a new opportunity for ocean education and research for decades to come. The national monument will:
Preserve access for Native Hawaiian cultural activities;
Provide for carefully regulated educational and scientific activities;
Enhance visitation in a special area around Midway Island;
Prohibit unauthorized access to the monument;
Phase out commercial fishing over a five-year period; and

Ban other types of resource extraction and dumping of waste.
This Marine National Monument is the largest single area dedicated to conservation in the history of our country and the largest protected Marine area in the world. It is more than 100 times larger than Yosemite National Park, larger than 46 of our 50 states, and more than seven times larger than all our National Marine Sanctuaries combined.

The new monument fulfills a legacy of conservation first begun by President Theodore Roosevelt. In 2004, the Administration released an Ocean Action Plan to promote an ethic of responsible use and stewardship of our oceans and coastal resources. By establishing this new national monument, we are implementing an important part of our plan.
Building on Our Great Environmental Progress

Over the last 30 years, our Nation has made great progress in providing for a better environment and improving public health. In that time, our economy grew 164 percent, population grew 39 percent, and our energy consumption increased 42 percent, yet air pollution from the six major pollutants decreased by 48 percent. In 2002, state data reported to EPA showed that approximately 251 million people (or 94 percent of the total population) were served by community water systems that met all health-based standards. This number is up from 79 percent in 1993.The President is committed to delivering even greater progress.
Cleaning and Redeveloping Hazardous Waste Sites

Brownfields Program
Fulfilling a commitment he made when he ran for President, President Bush signed historic bipartisan brownfields legislation in 2002, accelerating the cleanup of brownfields to better protect public health, create jobs, and revitalize communities.

How many more would you care to see. There is a laundry list....

Answer 2

Climate and global warming is inter-related to each other. As when the global warming increases it also affects the climate. Change in the climate is only due to the global warming. global warming is actually caused by the chlorofluorocarbon coming from our household works and specially from the the refrigerators. Due to the global warming the black hole increases and the ozone layer decreases. If the ozone layer decreases rapidly then it can cause various inflammation in our health and the surrounding. Then the harmful radiations of the sun reaches to the earth and cause many pollutions and give rise to many new diseases and skin cancer. The producing of the co2 gases is very harmful. it also leads to the depletion of the ozone layer as it is one of the greenhouse gases. Hope this answer will help u to write ur essay. U can also elaborate these points.

Answer 3

The sudden appearance of the islands is a symptom of an ice sheet going into retreat, scientists say. Greenland is covered by 630,000 cubic miles of ice, enough water to raise global sea levels by 23 feet.

Carl Egede Boggild, a professor of snow-and-ice physics at the University Center of Svalbard, said Greenland could be losing more than 80 cubic miles of ice per year. “That corresponds to three times the volume of all the glaciers in the Alps,” Dr. Boggild said. “If you lose that much volume you’d definitely see new islands appear.”

The abrupt acceleration of melting in Greenland has taken climate scientists by surprise. Tidewater glaciers, which discharge ice into the oceans as they break up in the process called calving, have doubled and tripled in speed all over Greenland. Ice shelves are breaking up, and summertime “glacial earthquakes” have been detected within the ice sheet.

A study in The Journal of Climate last June observed that Greenland had become the single largest contributor to global sea-level rise.

“Even a foot rise is a pretty horrible scenario,” said Stephen P. Leatherman, director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research at Florida International University in Miami.

On low-lying and gently sloping land like coastal river deltas, a sea-level rise of just one foot would send water thousands of feet inland. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide make their homes in such deltas; virtually all of coastal Bangladesh lies in the delta of the Ganges River. Over the long term, much larger sea-level rises would render the world’s coastlines unrecognizable, creating a whole new series of islands.

“Here in Miami,” Dr. Leatherman said, “we’re going to have an ocean on both sides of us.”

Answer 4

30 years ago the same scientists were yelling about global cooling, the NEW ICE AGE , and raking in the grant money.
Now they have the Global Warming piggy bank to shake for all it's worth.
What next?
Global wrinkling, the planets getting old.

Answer 5

Global Warming? Yeah, that's why more than half of the US this season has been freezing their butts off.

Look back into History, there is an ebb & flow to all of this.

As far as pollution? Of course the earth is more polluted. I agree, let's clean up our act on this aspect. But Global Warming? Just a term being thrown around with absolutely no real hard facts behind it.

Answer 6

Could you possibly make any broader a generalization than this question?? Next time consider just a few specifics so people can actually respond. Troll.

Answer 7

You do mean climate change right. As soon as there is any proof man kind alone has an effect on the apparent change in temps then maybe then we do something about it. Until then lets find something we can do that will actually improve the world we live in.

Answer 8

It gets in the way of them making a buck.

Answer 9

Because we don't want to live in the Liberal utopia of communes with no electricity?

Answer 10

The GOP are supposed to protect business interest in the US. Business profits would go down if they had to reduce their emissions. Business money for elections goes more to the GOP.