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Article: Presidential hot air.(Editorials)(Global warming plan puts business before health)(Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 21, 2002
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Byline: The Register-Guard
If President Bush succeeds in selling his new global warming strategy to Congress and the American people, he'll have pulled off the biggest heist since a Dutch colonial governor named Peter Minuit bought Manhattan Island from the Indians in 1626 for beads, cloth and trinkets worth $24.
Bush claims that his policy is aggressive and bold. It would, he says, "stabilize atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate."
That's a lot of rhetorical gas. Bush's long-awaited alternative to the Kyoto Protocol that he rejected last year is a disappointing ...