Today the President unveiled his plan to deal with climate change. The plan isn’t big on details, but essentially the plan is to engage China, India, and others not covered by the Kyoto Protocol, exchange technology, agree to voluntary greenhouse gas limits. The responses from global warming activists were interesting, because the activists are don’t pay attention to what is occurring in the real world or, more likely, they don’t care. It may be that their real agenda has very little to do with climate change and everything to do with limiting our supply of energy. Here are some examples:

Daniel Weiss, a senior fellow and director of climate strategy for the Center for American Progress, issued a statement on Bush’s proposal before the president had even finished his speech in Washington.

“President Bush’s do nothing policy on global warming continues despite our allies’ best efforts to spur U.S. reductions,” Weiss said. “At next week’s G8 summit, Germany and our other allies will once again implore him to join them in slashing global warming pollution. President Bush’s speech today indicates that he will snub them again next week.”

And this one:

Friends of the Earth President Brent Blackwelder also dismissed the Bush approach as a “complete charade.”

“It is an attempt to make the Bush administration look like it takes global warming seriously without actually doing anything to curb emissions,” he said. Blackwelder added, the United States “has a moral responsibility to help lead the fight against global warming. The American people get this. But President Bush isn’t leading. He isn’t even following.”

If you only read their comments you would think that the US is doing a bad job compared to the European Union on reducing greenhouse gases. But the reality is different. From 2000 to 2004, the Europeans’ greenhouse gas emissions increased by 2.1%. Over the same span U.S. greenhouse gas emissions increased 1.3%. How can US emissions be increasing slow than Europe’s? But it gets worse for the global warming activists. During 2006, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions fell by 1.3% from energy-related sources. But the EU’s carbon dioxide emission increase between 1.0-1.5%.

It appears that President Bush’s “do nothing policy” is getting better results than Europe’s cap and trade policy under the Kyoto Protocol. By the way, did I mention that because of regulations on greenhouse gas emissions electricity prices are up 15% in the UK and 25% in Germany? And their greenhouse gas emission continue to increase…