George Bush Archive

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  G8s commit to a 2mtr sea level rise? - by frog

  
  
  
  A new global deal on climate change heralded by G8 leaders as a significant step forward yesterday ran into trouble within hours as developing nations including China and India rejected it because they believe the commitments are not strong enough. Non G8 member countries have good reason to be concerned: The environmental campaign group WWF [...] read more
  July 9, 2008 2:36 pm - 6 Comments
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  One-page history of the Iraq War - by frog

  
  
  
  Alas a blog pointed to this fantastic little piece of history from Joel Pett (via Bors Blog – click on the image for a larger version) read more
  June 26, 2008 9:37 am - 15 Comments
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  Peak oil brings down governments - by frog

  
  
  
  I love this post over at the Standard, with graphs plotting the perfect relationship between the rising price of petrol and George Bush’s falling popularity as US president.  The more petrol prices rise the more Bush’s popularity falls.  Pierson then follows up with a similar graph showing that exactly the same thing is happening for [...] read more
  June 17, 2008 8:55 am - 78 Comments
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  Clinton’s mistake - by frog

  
  
  
  The Nation has an interesting article on Hillary Clinton’s floundering nomination campaign, arguing that the mistake she made was not a tactical or strategic one. It wasn’t that she picked the wrong states to focus on, or threw everything into her knock-out punch or fundraised poorly. It was a policy mistake: The biggest factor that [...] read more
  May 12, 2008 9:45 pm - 9 Comments
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  Some discussion points - by frog

  
  
  
  George Bush leads the way US President George Bush has announced an ‘ambitious‘ climate change programme to stop increasing carbon emission in 2025. And, after that, the US is going to start reducing emissions. That’s only 17 years and somewhat more than 100 billion metric tonnes of CO². We’ll probably be onto our 3rd Bush [...] read more
  April 18, 2008 9:26 am - 18 Comments
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  Bush leads fight against climate change, Clark following fast - by frog

  
  
  
  President Bush proclaimed yesterday that the U.S. is “in the lead” in the fight against climate change. Now, look, I understand stereotypes are hard to defeat. People get an image planted in their head, and sometimes it causes them not to listen to the facts. But America is in the lead when it comes to [...] read more
  March 6, 2008 10:09 pm - 29 Comments
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  Gaza can have democracy some of the time - by frog

  
  
  
  According to Vanity Fair the US was willing to countenance overthrowing a democratically elected government in little old Gaza (360 square kilometres, 1.48 million people, GDP US$5.034 billion, main economic industries include olives, vegetables, and small family businesses that produce soap, wood carvings, and mother-of-pearl souvenirs). So should we now worry about how America might [...] read more
  March 5, 2008 2:34 pm - 27 Comments
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  No obvious successor to the Oil President - by frog

  
  
  
  While we are on the topic of US politics, check out this Follow the Oil link which shows how much donations each presidential candidate has received from big oil companies in the US.  It looks like the oil companies picked it wrong to start with, making their biggest donations to Rudi Giuliani (US$634,858) and Mitt [...] read more
  March 3, 2008 12:23 pm - 8 Comments
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  US tells California; no clean cars - by frog

  
  
  
  On Friday, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), acting under advice from the Bush administration, rejected California’s plan to limit greenhouse gases from cars, saying it was a global problem that needed to be dealt with at the federal, not state, level. The EPA argued that California is not suffering “compelling and extraordinary conditions” [...] read more
  March 3, 2008 11:57 am - 11 Comments
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  Burmese pythons colonise Texas - by frog

  
  
  
  USA Today reports: As climate change warms the nation, giant Burmese pythons could colonize one-third of the USA, from San Francisco across the Southwest, Texas and the South and up north along the Virginia coast, according to U.S. Geological Survey maps released Wednesday. Poor George Bush; just when he is about to lose his Washington [...] read more
  February 28, 2008 3:52 pm - 3 Comments