The following is taken from here

I believe we’ll be able to burn coal without emitting any greenhouse gases, zero emissions plant.

That’s a nice belief, but even my rudimentary chemistry seems to indicate that even if a coal fired plant burned 100% pure, it’d still give off CO₂, making it give off greenhouse gases.
But it’s not like he understands that, much less cares about it.
It’s the belief part that really bothers me. It doesn’t matter if it’s infeasible, or impossible –George believes it, so it must happen, physics and chemistry be damned. They’re only sciences with proofs and equations that mean nothing to the man.

Later on in the article Bush mentions:

I believe we’re going to be able to have coal-fired plants that have zero emissions. We need to work on carbon sequestration technologies.

Yeah, there’s absolutely nothing we can do now, so why even try? We’ll have to work on technologies that dump millions of tons of carbon that we free from coal into the deep oceans. Thank goodness that we don’t demand improved mileage from our cars, because in, like ten years, we’ll totally sequester that carbon. Totally.

Much like white is the new black, Faith is the new science.

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