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Cheney Still in Denial

-- Mike -- 02/26/2007

Despite the fact that a panel of international scientists recently issued a report, edited by representatives of 113 governments, that said human activity is "very likely" the cause of global warming, Vice President Cheney continues to deny the inconvenient truth about global climate change. Note this exchange during the vice president's recent interview with ABC News (emphasis added):

Question: But what's your sense, where is the science on this? Is global warming a fact? And is it human activity that is causing global warming?

Cheney: Those are the two key questions. I think there's an emerging consensus that we do have global warming. You can look at the data on that, and I think clearly we're in a period of warming. Where there does not appear to be a consensus, where it begins to break down, is the extent to which that's part of a normal cycle versus the extent to which it's caused by man, greenhouse gases, et cetera.

This is yet another reminder of the need to use the 2008 presidential nomination process as an opportunity to cultivate new national leadership on the issue of global warming.