U.S. issues climate assessment forced by court order

[UpInArms]

Source: Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Bush administration released a climate change assessment on Thursday -- four years late and pushed forward by a court order -- that said human-induced global warming will likely lead to problems like droughts in the U.S. West and stronger hurricanes.

President George W. Bush's stance on the issue has evolved from denying climate science to acknowledging that global warming is happening. In March, watchdog groups said Bush's decision to intervene in setting air pollution standards was part of a pattern of meddling in environmental science.

The "Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States" released on Thursday synthesized previous reports, including those by the government's climate change science program and last year's work by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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A 1990 law, the Global Change Research Act, requires the government to do an assessment on global warming every four years. The last one had been issued in 2000 during President Bill Clinton's administration.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2928188820080529?sp=true

[Indenturedebtor]

1. WORST PRESIDENT EVER n/t

[Quantess]

4. My cat treats his litter box with more respect

than Bush treats the environment.

[Robbien]

2. It will be interesting to see what happens to all these government agencies

when Administration changes hands.

It would be heartbreaking if the new Administration didn't throw all the current heap of bums out and put in real public servants.

[orleans]

3. 2000? my god. i'm so GLAD the news media has really kept on top of this! n/t

[Uncle Joe]

5. This isn't Bush's first evolvement on the issue, I believe he said during one of the 2000 debates

he was for capping greenhouse gas emissions only to change his mind within weeks after being installed as pRresident.

Thanks for the thread, UpInArms.