Bush: Climate change is "serious problem"

Years ago it used to be that the White House denied the globe was warming. Then they admitted the globe was warming but that it was natural. Then they admitted that mankind had a role but that more study was needed while we adapted. Now apparently they at the stage where it's admitted that climate change is a "serious problem" and that technologies are needed to solve the problem, but they fail to fund such technologies while still giving large subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.

"I have said consistently that global warming is a serious problem. There's a debate over whether it's manmade or naturally caused," Bush told reporters.

"We ought to get beyond that debate and start implementing the technologies necessary to enable us to achieve a couple of big objectives: One, be good stewards of the environment; two, become less dependent on foreign sources of oil, for economic reasons as for national security reasons," he said.

ABC News thinks Bush's statement indicates he's still focusing on the doubt:

The President — as far as the extensive and repeated researches of this and many other professional journalists, as well as all scientists credible on this subject, can find — is wrong on one crucial and no doubt explosive issue. When he said — as he also did a few weeks ago — that "There's a debate over whether it's manmade or naturally caused" … well, there really is no such debate.

It seems to me it depends on how you interpret Bush's statement. Of course, maybe that's just the way he prefers it.