Pelosi says Bush ”in denial” on warming

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called
President George W. Bush’s new global warming plan a “profound disappointment” on Friday and said she wants Congress to pass legislation this year to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Just returned from a European tour focused on climate change, Pelosi said Bush’s strategy, announced on Thursday, “rehashed stale ideas” and made her question whether the president understands the urgency of global warming.


“The science is clear, and yet the president continues to be in denial,” Pelosi said at a briefing. “Yes, he says now he believes that global warming is happening and he accepts the science that it is … But if that were so, if he truly understood that, he could not have come up with a proposal that is ‘aspirational’.”

Pelosi, a California Democrat who rose to the top leadership job in the House of Representatives when Democrats won control in November, wants Congress to pass legislation this year to require mandatory caps on heat-trapping emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas spewed by motor vehicles, factories and coal-fired power plants.

Reuters