President Bush is headed for Europe next week. Part of his schedule is a meeting with 15 European Union nations in Gotesborg, Sweden. The delegates will insist that Bush account for a consensus of scientists who agree that human activity is the cause of a rise in global temperatures. Reading beyond the Executive Summary of the latest United Nation report reveals that no one knows whether the temperature rise is a trend or part of a cycle, the percent of the rise that can realistically be assigned to human activity or whether a rise is harmful or beneficial at a particular geographic location. The rejected Kyoto solution would have required the U.S. to shackle its growth and possibly induce an economic recession by enacting highly restrictive greenhouse gas emission regulations.
Greenhouse gases migrate so where they originate is irrelevant.
The EU nations, which have refused to implement the protocols themselves, will be insisting that Bush ought to agree to turn the whole nation into a California or worse. Prissy, puritanical and pagan, the green activists have nothing to offer that compares to the efficient and high tech use of fossil fuels. Hopefully, the Bush team will insist that it s the greens that cause blackouts. Over time, markets have a way of rooting out foolishness. It s only governments that are wedded to perpetuating it.