Does this gesture of President George W. Bush herald conversion to a U.N.-led plan to slow climate change? Not at all - though his call to break a U.S. addiction to oil is a step to curb global warming.
In his State of the Union address, Bush said he would seek:
• to break dependence on Middle East oil via new technologies
• to jack up funding on energy sources including coal and nuclear power
• to fund wind and solar power, hydrogen and ethanol
“This is fairly positive...the very mention of solar, wind and other clean energies is a huge step,” said Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany which accuses Bush of doing too little to stop global warming.
Via: Reuters
