Changing climate

That was just what I'm sure everyone wanted to hear, and today especially, on Blog Action Day. According to the New York Times, President Bush, speaking in Arkansas, said that his administration's voluntary approach to carbon emissions, which have been blamed for global warming, was working and that mandatory pollution caps are 'bad policy.' Of course, our president has no credibility on environmental policy, perhaps even less than he has on military policy. Bush, who rejected the 1997 Kyoto Protocol shortly after taking office in 2001, spoke about the environment during a question-and-answer session following a speech on the federal budget. The United Nations is sponsoring a conference on climate in Bali in December. Views from the Left Coast agreed to post about the environment today as a participant in Blog Action Day activities throughout the blogosphere.