Once government has the authority to regulate the emission of carbon dioxide, it has the authority to regulate the production of carbon dioxide. This is precisely the goal of the Kyoto Protocol. A draft of Bush's budget speech was released the day before it was to be presented to Congress. A barrage of phone calls and e-mails to various Bush officials throughout the day on Tuesday, persuaded advisors to remove the phrase before the speech was delivered. But after more than ten years of intense scientific study and endless debate, there is little agreement on whether the planet is warming or cooling, and whether or not the changes that are being observed have anything at all to do with human activity.
Temperatures are lower, and the snow is deeper.
56-degrees F have been recorded. Scientific evidence to support such claims, however, is rarely provided. One of the more outspoken critics of the IPCC process is Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a lead author of the Third Assessment Report. The IPCC isn't interested in getting the world's best climate scientists, but rather getting representation from 100 countries, only a handful of which do significant research. The IPCC report was carried by all the major media, and amplified through press releases of dozens of environmental organizations - without reference to the criticism offered by Lindzen and others.