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Bush blames humans Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020603/ap_on_go_pr_wh/climate_change_1 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020603/ap_on_go_pr_wh/climate_change_1 U.S. Outlines Climate Change Impact Mon Jun 3, 2:27 PM ET By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The Bush administration outlined significant environmental impacts from climate change, possibly within decades, in a new report to the United Nations (news - web sites). But the administration stands firm on limiting its plans to deal with heat-trapping "greenhouse" pollution to voluntary measures and avoiding the Kyoto climate treaty. For the first time, the administration puts most of the blame for recent warming on human actions, pointing to fossil fuel-burning that releases carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, according to the report released by the Environmental Protection Agency (news - web sites). "The changes observed over the last several decades are likely mostly due to human activities, but we cannot rule out that some significant part of these changes is also a reflection of natural variability," the report says. "Human-induced warming and associated sea level rises are expected to continue through the 21st century," it says. "Secondary effects ... include increases in rainfall rates and increased susceptibility of semi-arid regions to drought." The paper, submitted to the United Nations, was first reported Monday by The New York Times. The report also says that despite some lingering scientific uncertainties "there is general agreement that the observed warming is real and has been particularly strong within the past 20 years." Last year, the White House described climate change as a serious issue after seeking the opinions of the National Academy of Sciences (news - web sites), but was undecided about how much of the problem should be blamed on human activities. President Bush (news - web sites) favors a climate plan with voluntary measures intended to slow the rate of growth in gas emissions, but allow them to continue to rise. He opposes regulating carbon dioxide emissions from power plants as a pollutant, unlike legislation sought by Senate Environment Chairman James Jeffords (news - web sites), an independent from Vermont, and some Democrats. European Union (news - web sites) countries on Friday formally signed the Kyoto Protocol (news - web sites), a pact to stem pollution and global warming (news - web sites) that President Bush has rejected. The ratification at U.N. headquarters in New York by the 15 EU countries represented a key step toward putting the 1997 treaty into force. ___ On the Net: Climate Action Report 2002: http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/publications/car U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change: http://unfccc.int

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