Bush EPA: More Emissions = Good For Climate

Yesterday's headline from the Associated Press read: "EPA chief: Bush climate policy working."

And why is that? Says the AP:

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday the growth of greenhouse gases by less than 1 percent in 2005 shows the administration's program to address global warming "is delivering real results."

To repeat in non-spin: we put more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in 2005 than 2004. So our policy to do nothing about global warming is working.

If the AP is unable to write a fully truthful headline, it at least had the sense to quote Frank O'Donnell of Clean Air Watch, who blogged yesterday:

It's a sad state of affairs when global warming emissions go up, yet the Bush administration tries to spin it as a victory.

Though David Roberts of Gristmill still knocks the AP for characterizing the accurate analysis as only coming from activists:

"Environmentalists," you see, view a continuing rise in greenhouse-gas emissions as less than a triumph for Bush's climate change policies. Not, say, "awake people," or "non-retarded people." Just "environmentalists."

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