Ignoring a Growing Peril

Very weird.

The Bush administration has acknowledged that the U.S. will experience far- reaching and, in some cases, devastating environmental consequences as a result of global warming. But it does not plan to do much about it.(...)

And yet even this most minimal acceptance of reality was too much for the troglodyte wing of the president's party. Shrieks of outrage arose among conservatives, who immediately and loudly demanded that the president turn his back on the report and bury his head even more deeply in the sand.

So on Tuesday there was George W. Bush dutifully distancing himself from his own administration's handiwork. He assured one and all that he had no plans to lead any assault on global warming. He was coldly dismissive of the interagency effort. "I read the report put out by the bureaucracy," he said.
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Here is an excellent blog that has many posts on global warming.

Quark Soup

thanks to wood s lot
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As the globe warns up, Bush won't believe it

AT THE WHITE HOUSE, where science is a seance by Exxon Mobil, the driftwood of the South Pole itself could float up the Potomac, flood onto the grass of the Rose Garden, and President Bush still might not believe in global warming.

The mystics and their oodles of cash remain capable of freezing Bush into the world's most cataleptic leader on climate change, absolutely unmoved by chunks of Antarctica falling off or projections in our children's lifetime of pronounced disease, hunger, storms, bleaching of coral reefs, and swamping of island nations.

With eyes frozen and lips moving at the controlling wave of big oil, big gas, big coal, and ridiculously big cars, the same Bush who demands that students and teachers be held accountable to mandatory standards in math refuses to account for the data on climate change.
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thanks to Quark Soup