Global Warming is Putting Bush on the Spot

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:55:00 GMT

By Dani Fanny

This is what happens when the globe gets too warm.

Over the past few years, global warming has become a very prominent issue in our country and around the world. With specials all over the television and Al Gore promoting its importance in auditoriums abroad, more and more people have come to see it as a problem we can no longer ignore. In the April 3, 2007 issue of the Arizona Republic, the Bush Administration was said to have been reprimanded by the Supreme Court for its inaction on global warming and its disregard of a decision that could have lead to more fuel-efficient cars by next year. The court’s first case on global warming ended in a 5-4 ruling that said greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, were classified as air pollutants under the Clean Air Act and, therefore, it is in the power of the Environmental Protection Agency to limit the emissions of such gases. For those of you that don’t know, there is a natural greenhouse effect on our planet, keeping Earth habitable and temperatures relatively warm. However, with the constant dumping of carbon dioxide and methane into our atmosphere, we are increasing its effect on us and nature, warming the planet further. Global warming can and will eventually lead to complications in our every day lives, such as the rising of sea levels and the end of our environment as we now know it. It’s understandable that people would be worked up over this. Right now, however, there isn’t much the Bush Administration can do but take the criticism that’s coming its way and try its best to fend off the worst. After all, they already made the decision that put them under fire in the first place, and they can’t exactly just take it back.