President Bush Ordered to Release Overdue Global-Warming Plan
by Jasmin Malik Chua, Jersey City, USA on 08.22.07
Uh oh, it looks like the Bush administration has some 'splainin to do. The U.S. government has violated federal law by failing to produce a study on the impact on global warming, now nearly two years overdue, a federal judge ruled.
Judge Saundra B. Armstrong of Federal District Court in Oakland Calif., said the administration has "unlawfully withheld action'' required under the Global Change Research Act of 1990 to update a research plan and scientific assessment of climate change and its effects on the environment, including land, water, air, plant and animal life, and human health.
The law mandates that the research plan be revised every three years, and the assessment every four years. The last research plan was published in 2003, and the last assessment in 2000. Oops.
"As the research plan is now more than a year overdue, the court orders that a summary of the revised proposed research plan be published in the Federal Register no later than March 1,'' Armstrong said in the order on Tuesday. The scientific assessment must be produced by May 31. ::Bloomberg News and The New York Times
"Gee, Mrs. Cleaver, I was only holdin' off on givin' it to you because I want it to be super-special and perfect, just for you!"
Didn't the IPCC already do an assessment just like this? Does the US not believe them or is this report somehow specific to the effects of the US?
My understanding is that it is US-specific.
If this administration didn't see fit to produce the report within the alloted time, or within a year after the deadline, despite a lawsuit, why should we expect that the administration will produce a report by March? And what if they don't?
As long as Republican members of Congress don't mind the Republican executive thumbing their nose at Congress and the courts, the executive can, has been, and will continue to follow laws and ignore laws as it pleases.
Of course it's overdue, you don't think Bush is going to waste time on his vacation to actually go back and do some work. Sheesh, just bringing up the idea of a book report is causing Bush to spend another 2 days on vacation while he finds some grad student to do the work for him.
I'm not sure about this global warming issue. Bush is focused on Iraq. So what do you think? Is the new military surge working to win the war in Iraq? a) yes b) no c) undecided
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idiots. i sincerely hope they get their due.
You think two years for an insignificant and meaningless stack of papers is long? We've been waiting on Hillary to "find" her files and turn them over for over a decade now.