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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> The White House said Monday it would not comment on the scientific review 
> and would await a final report next year that includes input from 
> diplomats. "This is one draft of a report that has yet to be finished," 
> White House spokesman Trent Duffy said.

In other words, politics based on campaign contributions, not science, will 
make the U.S. decision. How's this for a future scenario: the rest of the 
world embraces policies to save the world as we know it from the rising 
temperatures, the U.S. refuses to go along with it, the rest of the world 
preemptively invades us and takes us over, using the survival of human 
civilization and the Iraq invasion as the legal justification. Of course 
this will all happen, say, fifty years from now and those who made the 
political decisions today will be dead. Like the president says, posterity 
will be the judge of his policies, and that will be after he is dead. What, 
me worry?