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If by 'unparalleled' you mean 'suicidal and morally indefensible', then yes, you are correct

Posted by Adam Browning (Guest Contributor) at 3:20 PM on 17 Apr 2006

The U.S. EPA released a new report on greenhouse gas emissions today.

From the press release, here's EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson:

"The Bush Administration has an unparalleled financial, international and domestic commitment to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions," said EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson.

Can't argue with that. And don't get me started on their made-up-metric, "greenhouse gas intensity."


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It's not a lie

By "unparalleled," he simply means that nobody has been ignoring it more than the Bush administration. You see, if everyone worked on reducing emissions, every line would go down, and therefore would be parallel. The Bush administration is making the line go up, and is therefore perpendicular to everyone else. Or, in other words, unparalleled.

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Global Warming is a natural effect that is the result of factors that trivialize human contributions by comparison.  Anthropogenic Global Warming is an Alarmist Myth, verging on a religion.  It is absolutely not science. Precisely how did humans cause the coming and going of the ice ages?  How is it that rise in CO2 levels lags nearly 1,000 years behind upward trends in global temperatures? Before you drive for policies that completely cripple the U.S. economy, you may want to take note that the U.S. has reduced CO2 emissions while the illustrious EU has maintained or increased CO2 emissions. We have to be prosperous to afford the technological progress necessary to achieve greater energy efficiency.

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