Bush will address the environment and the threat of climate change with leaders of the 15 European Union countries in Goteborg, Sweden. The administration asked for this report from the nation's leading scientists at the same time the president decided to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol treaty on global warming. But the scientists may have given Bush more than he bargained for. And humans are helping to cause it. A scientist who helped write the report says humans, through government policy, can determine how hot the planet gets.
Environmental activists claim that puts the administration in a bind.
There is no cover anymore for not taking aggressive action to improve energy efficiency in the U.S. economy and to clean up dirty coal-fired power plants. That's the only way we will address global warming. Bush ignited a storm of controversy when he decided to abandon the Kyoto Protocol, which sets caps on the emissions of greenhouse gases in developed nations. The president is going to see many of those allies next week on his first European trip. They are angry about the administration's unilateral action on global warming.