Energy Facts Contradict Bush Global Warming Plan

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Energy Facts Contradict Bush Global Warming Plan

 

WASHINGTON, DC, June 30, 2003 (ENS) – A new study of data released by the U.S.

Department of Energy (DOE) indicates that President Bush's global warming plan

will allow more greenhouse gas pollution to occur at a faster rate than if the

nation maintained the pollution trends of the past five years.

 

The National Wildlife Federation analysis, “Beneath the Hot Air 2003,” says that

the administration’s goals are stated in terms of emissions intensity – measured

as the amount of U.S. greenhouse gases emitted per dollar of economic output –

and not in terms of actual emissions levels.

“This ‘intensity’ goal actually hides an emissions increase that is likely to be

larger and faster than what we experienced in the past five years,” the report

says. “Based on the White House’s predictions of economic growth, the

President’s target translates into an emissions increase of 13 percent over the

next decade.”

If current trends were to continue for the next 10 years, the report says,

carbon dioxide emissions from energy would grow about 10.1 percent.

" The pollution increases we have seen for the past five years were bad enough

for the environment, but the White House's global warming plan would allow more

pollution to occur at an even faster rate, " said Jeremy Symons, climate change

and wildlife manager for the National Wildlife Federation.

" Suppressing the science on global warming doesn't hide the fact that the

President's misguided energy agenda and his efforts to relax enforcement of the

Clean Air Act will increase global warming pollution, " Symons said.

The National Wildlife Federation released its first edition of “Beneath the Hot

Air” last July to document that emissions growth had already slowed below

forecasted levels well before President George W. Bush pursued voluntary

agreements with industry.

" The administration has set the bar so low that it's impossible not to meet

their goals, " said Symons. " That may not stop them from trying to claim credit

in the future, even though they are not taking responsible action to reduce the

nation's emissions. "

The United States Senate is expected to vote in July on a alternate bipartisan

plan introduced by Senators Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat, and John

McCain, a Republican from Arizona, to reduce U.S. emissions.

Read the document “Beneath the Hot Air” at:

http://www.nwf.org/nwfwebadmin/binaryVault/Beneathhotair200311.pdf.

 

 

 

 

 

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