The Bush administration's inaction on the issue of climate change will increase the risk and cost of averting global warming.
"In its business-as-usual approach to climate change, the Bush administration is increasingly out of step not only with other industrialized powers, but also with the growing support in this country for action to prevent global warming. The administration's oddly two-sided report last week to the United Nations brings the White House into the scientific mainstream on the subject acknowledging that human activity is probably the cause of global warming and that America itself faces serious consequences but at the same time lays out a strategy ensuring that American emissions of greenhouse gases will continue rising sharply for at least a decade."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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