It is the position of the USA Government, Human Induced Global Warming is real and a serous threat.

In the years of Walker Bush, he didn't seem to think he could find the words that would 'limit' the understanding scientists had regarding this rapidly approaching danger.

The National Academy of Science, at the request of the then President concluded on June 6, 2001...

"Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise. Temperatures are, in fact, rising. The changes observed over the last several decades are likely mostly due to human activities, but we cannot rule out that some significant part of these changes are also a reflection of natural variability. Human-induced warming and associated sea level rises are expected to continue through the 21st century."

What was Bush's lame response...

"We do not know how much our climate could, or will change in the future. We do not know how fast change will occur, or even how some of our actions could impact it."

The Response from David Corn of Alternet on June 19, 2001 stated:

True enough. But he seemed to be saying that perfect knowledge was required before remedies could be adopted. (That's not his standard for proceeding with the construction and deployment of a national missile defense system that has yet to be tested successfully.)

Was Bush's policy decisive and acting upon the recommendations as reflected by the National Academy of Sciences? Well, you decide. After promising during his campaign he would address the issue in a more comprehensive way considering his father didn't do squat and having received a report from the National Academcy of Sciences only a week before his NEW policy stated this:

Bush is willing to devote $25 million to that effort -- after having cut the budget for research into technology that could address global warming.

Corn made this point in 2001:

With hundreds of billions of dollars for tax cuts for the rich, $25 million for the planet. That's less than one-quarter of the money Bush raised for his presidential campaign. Does that mean Bush believes placing himself in the White House was a more important endeavor than addressing a global environmental threat? As the SIerra Club's Dan Becker quipped, "When your house is on fire, you don't go to the library to take out a book on how hot fire gets. You put out the fire."

We finally have a President who can actually read and understand the science surrounding this issue and make decisive decisions that will put an entire PLANET on a safer path of global responsiblity. Now, if Gates would stop lying and bring the troops home and drop a dozen bombs on Osama bin Laden, we actually might stop sending tonnes of CO2 into the troposphere from the wars Bush stated ILLEGALLY. Did anyone ever think that once the lousy bastard child of Muhammed Awad bin Laden was dead, the people of the region might actually be safe and sane?