Another Bush Policy "Turnaround": Suddenly, Global Warming Is Real And Coming To a Thermometer Near You

The Guardian (UK) reports today that our beloathed president is suddenly going to treat the phenomenon of global warming less as fantasy and more as ... well, perhaps not fact, per se, but as something with more validity than the claims Bush actually reads.

George Bush is preparing to make a historic shift in his position on global warming when he makes his State of the Union speech later this month, say senior Downing Street officials.

[....]Bush and Blair held private talks on climate change before Christmas, and there is a feeling that the US President will now agree a cap on emissions in the US, meaning that, for the first time, American industry and consumers would be expected to start conserving energy and curbing pollution.

Even this piddling little bit is something for a man (again, with Bush, I always use the terms man, president, and "leader of the free world" loosely) who has joked more than once that global climate change is great because the rising need for air conditioning helps keep Texas' and other energy companies in 24K gold-plated pork rinds and male hookers (hi, Jeff Gannon!).

Yet it's preposterous to expect from the Bushies any real substantive change.

For example, wasn't it only at last year's state of the union that Bush chastised us for being too dependent on oil? At that time, he promised more initiatives to develop alternate energy resources only to make certain absolutely NO funding or other American public resources for his "pet" projects like hydrogen-fueld cars ever saw light of day. He all but de-funded and de-balled these ideas in the next breath after he uttered them.