Bush Addresses Global Warming in the Correct Way

If you've read this blog for very long, you know I have little patience for the religion of global warming. It's not that I doubt that some climate change may be taking place, I just doubt that human activity has much to do with it. There's plenty of evidence of past warming and cooling cycles which make me believe that whatever warming is going on is probably cyclical and not due to evil humans.

President Bush commented on global warming yesterday, and I think he's taking the appropriate approach:

US President George W. Bush said it was time to move past a debate over whether human activity is a significant factor behind global warming and into a discussion of possible remedies.

"I have said consistently that global warming is a serious problem. There's a debate over whether it's manmade or naturally caused," Bush told reporters.

"We ought to get beyond that debate and start implementing the technologies necessary to enable us to achieve a couple of big objectives: One, be good stewards of the environment; two, become less dependent on foreign sources of oil, for economic reasons as for national security reasons," he said.

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"The truth of the matter is, if this country wants to get rid of its greenhouse gases, we've got to have the nuclear power industry be vibrant and viable," he said.

Exactly, but don't look for the global warming alarmists to run out and support Bush's call for a strong nuclear power industry, even though it's the cleanest form of energy we have available to us today. Instead of all the pie-in-the-sky proposals for hydrogen cars (which Bush mentioned) or wind/solar power, let's use the technology that's available to us right now and start making a difference.