Guardian - Likely Impact Of Stern Report In Bush White House - Zero

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"What I see so far today does not give me any reason to believe that Mr Stern can be a spokesman who can change minds and open ears here," said Samuel Thernstrom, a former communications director for the Council on Environmental Quality in the Bush White House, now at the American Enterprise Institute. "I don't see a whole lot new here. They're hanging a lot on what they call 'robust economic analysis', but there's a lot of uncertainty here that they don't acknowledge."

He said choosing Al Gore, who lost to George Bush six years ago in one of the closest and bitterest elections in US history, as a special adviser on climate change would lessen the report's impact in Washington. "Sending Al Gore to talk to George Bush about this is the most ineffective choice you could make. It's like sending Bill Clinton out as a spokesman for sexual abstinence," he said.


ED. - Fucking hilarious. The whole planet is burning down around us, and it's just one more opportunity for a Bill Clinton blowjob joke.

But Eileen Claussen, the president of the Pew Centre on Global Climate Change, a Washington thinktank and pressure group, argued that the Stern report would have an impact in the US. "We are at the beginning of a serious debate about what to do about climate change and I think this report will improve the quality of the debate," she said. "Much of the opposition will be over the costs, and Stern has been able to talk to the costs of inaction."

But she did not expect any significant change of policy in Washington until 2010, a year after Mr Bush's successor takes office. Ms Claussen said that there was a possibility of a change of course earlier, driven by Congress. Even if Republicans retained their hold on November 7, growing alarm about climate change in the president's party might prompt bipartisan measures on greenhouse gases.

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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/story/0,,1935790,00.html

[YankeyMCC]

1. We can't wait

for our so called leaders.

[phantom power]

2. yeah, nice gratuitous dig. As if BushCo would listen to *anyone*.

O! If only they just picked the right messenger, surely Bush will see the light!

Spare me, Sam.
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