Originally published February 26 2006
Former EPA leaders warn Bush administration about global warming
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
At a recent gathering, former chiefs of the Environmental Protection Agency urged the Bush administration to take heed of increasing warnings about the dangers of global climate change and take an active leadership role in the fight against global warming.
When numerous former chiefs of the Environmental Protection Agency --- including appointees of Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan --- sound an alarm, one would hope the current president would listen.
Despite the former chiefs' unanimous warnings about the danger of climate change, there's little sign their message got through.
"I know from the president on down, he is committed," Stephen Johnson, the current EPA administrator, responded at a gathering of EPA chiefs in honor of the agency's founding.
"And certainly his charge to me was, and certainly our team has heard it: 'I want you to accelerate the pace of environmental protection.
In practice, they mean that short-term business demands will drown out informed warnings about the effects of climate change.
According to the Associated Press, the assembled ex-EPA chiefs pleaded with the administration to take notice.
"You'd need to be in a hole somewhere to think that the amount of change that we have imposed on land, and the way we've handled deforestation, farming practices, development and what we're putting into the air, isn't exacerbating what is probably a natural trend," said former Bush appointee Christine Whitman.
If the United States "doesn't deal with those kind of issues in a leadership role, they're not going to get dealt with," he said.
The Bush administration has consistently rejected peer-reviewed reports on global warming, either by impugning the science or butchering the government's own reports to conform to its wishes.
How much more responsible it would be to lead an international search for solutions.
This winter, the British consulate general is sponsoring a free exhibit at the Museum of Natural Science showing photos of climate change's worldwide effects.
Houstonians should take this opportunity to decide for themselves if the scientists' warnings have merit.
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