Aides said the president would give a more detailed account of his climate change proposals in his speech to APEC business leaders.
One of them is a proposal to eliminate tariffs on environmental and clean-energy technologies. In his talks with Hu, Bush invited the Chinese leader to consider doing the same, said Dan Price, a presidential economic adviser on the National Security Council.
"President Bush raised the issue of climate change, and both sides welcomed the attention of APEC to climate, and they confirmed the importance of addressing this pressing problem cooperatively and responsibly, and in a manner that did not stall or stunt economic growth," Price said.
He attended an APEC meeting....which is to be expected.
APEC set Climate Change as a major theme, so he must address it somehow. He chose to suggest some ephemeral cooperation, and insist that whatever they do not stall or stunt economic growth...a good thing. Under the umbrella of "climate change", we often discuss China's pollution...though I have no idea if he did so here. At times of the year, more than 10% of California air pollution is from China's noxious clouds; and up to 50% at times for Oregon. While CO2 has a trivial and very indirect effect, the brown clouds around China seem to have a direct warming effect....due to being actually brown.
He suggested reciprical removing of tariffs on certain technologies...also a good thing. If you want to complain he didn't go far enough, fine.
At least in this article, he didn't say much else that amounted to a hill of beans. Cooperate and be responsible without stifling growth, and reduce tarrifs. Maybe there'll be more objectionable stuff in the speech to the business leaders, but this is pretty innocuous.
I understand that he is paying it lip service to be PC. Why can’t he just come out and say this is a hoax perpetrated by environmental whacko groups in order to promote their agenda of saving the trees and the animals.