Fmr. Bush EPA Administrator brags Prez helped lay groundwork for UN Paris Agreement – UN Sec.-Gen. also ‘very much grateful’ to Bush
Richard Greene served as an appointee of President George W. Bush as regional administrator for the EPA:
The EPA first addressed such (climate) controls in our country during the George W. Bush era, and I got to witness that effort as a firsthand participant.
Go ahead and challenge me on that if you wish, but none other than U. N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon backs it up.
Ban Ki-moon credits Bush for initiating talks that led to the Paris landmark international agreement and says he is “very much grateful” to the former president for “the beginning of our success.” What the EPA did before Obama took office was to begin the process of regulating carbon dioxide emissions — something never before done in the history of the agency’s mission to protect human health and the environment.
http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/richard-greene/article52565230.html
I’m going to raise a couple of questions that might label me as a global warming skeptic.
Not so much about the science, but more about what was actually accomplished with the much-heralded outcome of the United Nations’ Paris agreement that is supposed to mark the beginning of the end to global warming.
Before I do, however, a reminder of my participation in the first-ever initiatives to deal with greenhouse gas emissions — the stuff that, if there is too much of it, traps heat on the earth’s surface and threatens the survival of the planet.
At least that’s the opinion of the majority of the world’s climate scientists and the stated public policy position of the Obama administration that has led to the most comprehensive regulatory initiatives anywhere on earth.
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I’m a pragmatist supporting the “art of the possible,” where progress is achieved through the process of balancing improvement of the air we breathe, the water we need and the land we live upon with economic opportunity for all.
