Inconvenient Kyoto Truths
Was life better when a sheet of ice a mile thick covered Chicago? Was it worse when Greenland was so warm that Vikings farmed there?
By George Will
Newsweek
Enough already. It is time to call some bluffs. John Kerry says that one reason America has become an "international pariah" is President Bush's decision to "walk away from global warming." Kerry's accusation is opaque, but it implies the usual complaint that Bush is insufficiently enthusiastic about the Kyoto Protocol's binding caps on emissions of greenhouse gases. Many senators and other experts in climate science say we must "do something" about global warming. Barack Obama says "the world" is watching to see "what action we take."
Fine. President Bush should give the world something amusing to watch. He should demand that the Senate vote on the protocol.
By George Will
Newsweek
Enough already. It is time to call some bluffs. John Kerry says that one reason America has become an "international pariah" is President Bush's decision to "walk away from global warming." Kerry's accusation is opaque, but it implies the usual complaint that Bush is insufficiently enthusiastic about the Kyoto Protocol's binding caps on emissions of greenhouse gases. Many senators and other experts in climate science say we must "do something" about global warming. Barack Obama says "the world" is watching to see "what action we take."
Fine. President Bush should give the world something amusing to watch. He should demand that the Senate vote on the protocol.
posted by Andy W. Rogers | 6:44 PM
1 Comments:
You might want to take a look at an analysis of Will's rhetorical slight of hand in this column:
http://rhetoricgarage.blogspot.com
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