{"id":3880,"date":"2005-12-10T08:10:38","date_gmt":"2005-12-10T08:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2005-12-10T08:10:38","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T08:10:38","slug":"bush-cant-get-any-wronger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2005\/12\/bush-cant-get-any-wronger\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush can&#8217;t get any &#8216;wronger&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually he can and does on a daily basis.  It would be fascinating to watch if I were an outsider.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blocked\">Former President Clinton told a global audience of diplomats, environmentalists and others Friday that the Bush administration is &#8220;flat wrong&#8221; in claiming that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions to fight global warming would damage the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/politics\/0,1283,69800,00.html?tw=rss.TOP\" class=\"external external_icon\">With a &#8220;serious disciplined effort&#8221; to develop energy-saving technology, he said, &#8220;we could meet and surpass the Kyoto targets in a way that would strengthen and not weaken our economies.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clinton, a champion of the Kyoto Protocol, the existing emissions-controls agreement opposed by the Bush administration, spoke in the final hours of a two-week U.N. climate conference at which Washington has come under heavy criticism for its stand.<\/p>\n<p>Most delegations appeared ready Friday to leave an unwilling United States behind and open a new round of negotiations on future cutbacks in the emissions blamed for global warming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no longer any serious doubt that climate change is real, accelerating and caused by human activities,&#8221; said Clinton, whose address was interrupted repeatedly by enthusiastic applause. &#8220;We are uncertain about how deep and the time of arrival of the consequences, but we are quite clear they will not be good.&#8221; <\/p><\/div>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/politics\/0,1283,69800,00.html?tw=rss.TOP\" class=\"external external_icon\">wired news<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually he can and does on a daily basis. It would be fascinating to watch if I were an outsider. Former President Clinton told a global audience of diplomats, environmentalists and others Friday that the Bush administration is &#8220;flat wrong&#8221; in claiming that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions to fight global warming would damage the U.S. economy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-3880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}