From the Forum “Undoing Bush”
Try, if you will, to summarize the Bush Administration’s position on the science of global warming. In 2006, the president could be found stating that a “fundamental debate” persisted over whether the phenomenon is human caused or “natural.” When an expert body of the United Nations announced in early 2007 that most of the warming had been human-induced, however, a White House press release endorsed that conclusion. But within weeks, Vice President Dick Cheney had undercut it again, claiming that no consensus existed over the extent to which global warming is “part of…