I am going to agree and disagree on a couple points, while it is very clear the bush admin has been more of an obstruction in reducing green house has emissions, this change in policy is significant. What I mean by that is the last bastion of open resistance to denying that humans are playing a significant role in modifying the climate has now changed that stance. With that, any of the 3 who may be the next president will address greenhouse gas emissions and it gives me, someone who wants to see a national plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions even more reason to be pleased. Canada will follow the US like the little dog that it normally is and we will see policy changes here as well.

While all of this maybe be to little to late when it comes to president Bush, to me the simple change in policy itself is promising and something to find hope in that the challenge of meeting reducing greenhouse gas emissions on a national level will begin. While there is much concern over the lack of anything specific and the way this is to be accomplished, Bush now apparently accepts the scientific consensus on climate.