Washed-up Communist Hack: U.S. Finally Taking Global Warming Seriously

I'll give the Commie thug some credit, at least. He doesn't sound nearly as extreme as the Goracle. He's completely off base, and like much of the left, conveniently overlooks the fact the Clinton administration sat idly by while Kyoto was voted down 95-0 by the U.S. Senate ten years ago.

But why let facts get in the way when you have some leftist agitprop to spread?

U.S. finally taking warming seriously - Gorbachev

NEW ORLEANS, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Much time has been lost in the fight to stop global warming, but the United States, the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has finally begun to take the problem seriously, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said on Friday.

He made his comments in New Orleans, which is recovering from Hurricane Katrina, the powerful 2005 storm that some experts have said was part of a trend toward stronger and more frequent hurricanes due to man-made warming.

"I'm sorry the United States has not ratified the Kyoto Protocol," Gorbachev said, referring to the international accord to reduce emissions of gases that contribute to global warming.

"But I see that the U.S. position is changing, that the U.S. is making serious proposals that will be important in the future," he told Reuters through a translator.

"But we have lost and we are still losing time," said the 76-year-old Gorbachev, who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until its collapse in 1991. He heads environmental group Green Cross International and was in town for its international general assembly.

"We are facing a conflict between men and the rest of nature. We have come to a red line in that conflict," he later told reporters.

The Bush administration, which refused to join in the Kyoto Protocol, has been skeptical about the effect of human activity on global warming, but recently hosted an international meeting about it.

President George W. Bush called for a long-term goal to reduce warming, but did not endorse mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

A branch of Green Cross -- Global Green USA -- has been working on projects to rebuild New Orleans in an environmentally friendly way. Actor Brad Pitt, who has a house in New Orleans' French Quarter, has been involved in some of the work.

Maybe this hack ought to go back to the cesspool that is his own country and try and clean up the mess there.