his handlers must have multiple personalities

[Guest guest]

Seeking a comfortable position between environmentalists on the one

hand and industry buddies on the other, President Bush let his

administration release a report last week acknowledging for the first

time that human-caused climate change would substantially change the

U.S. environment -- but then distanced himself from the report's

conclusions during a press conference yesterday. " I read the report

put out by the bureaucracy, " Bush said dismissively. His

spokesperson, Ari Fleischer, emphasized persisting scientific

uncertainty about some aspects of global warming -- long the Bush

administration's standard line -- even though last week's report was

by far the most categorical assessment of climate change to come out

of this administration.

 

straight to the source: New York Times, Katharine Q. Seelye, 05 Jun 2002

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