The Bush admin. fought tooth and nail for the past 8 years to make sure that the evidence on climate change remained cloudy at best, but it seems even they're beginning to cave to the incontrovertible evidence.
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AS THE Bush administration enters its final months, the US Climate Change Science Program has issued a report concluding that computer models do effectively simulate climate. It also accepts that the models show human activity was responsible for the rapid warming of the 20th century.
The report is the 10th of 21 due to be issued by the body, which the sceptical Bush administration set up late in 2002 to review the validity of climate-change science before making policy decisions. At the time, environmentalists accused the administration of using the programme as a way to drag its feet on the issue.
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I think it will be really interesting to see what the next govt administration does on global warming. Will whoever gets in to office go back on Bush's policies and maybe even join Kyoto? Or will they continue to ignore the evidence?
Personally, I think it's getting very hard for govts to ignore global warming. I think it wont be long now before we see certain US govt agencies investing in technology research.
Check out the full article over at
New Scientist