Griper Blade: Bush's Global Warming 'Solution'

President Bush has decided to do something about climate change. That's the good news. The bad news is that what he's decided to do is talk about it. At a summit on climate change last week, Bush addressed the world's top polluting nations. The idea was to come up with something to replace the Kyoto protocols, which expire in 2012.

Bush's plan can be boiled down to one point, "Do whatever the hell you want."

His idea is to set what he calls a "long-term goal" -- a pretty vague target -- for reducing carbon emissions. And even this soft target is too restrictive for him. He's not going to tell anyone how to run their country -- a new development for the leader of the neocon administration.

"This new approach must involve all the world's largest producers of greenhouse gas emissions, including developed and developing nations," Bush said. "We will set a long-term goal for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. By setting this goal, we acknowledge there is a problem. And by setting this goal, we commit ourselves to doing something about it."

Bush's plan is to let each nation "design its own separate strategies for making progress toward achieving this long-term goal." That'd be that undefined long-term goal. He might as well have said, "We'll get it done by later."

People who give a damn are less than impressed...

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