The White House Effect Documentary Movie

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The White House Effect Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Three decades ago, the world was poised to stop global warming. Using exclusively archival materials, THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT tells the dramatic origin story of the climate crisis and how a political battle in the George H. W. Bush administration interrupted that moment, changing the course of history.

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00:002023 was the hottest year on record by a long shot.

00:05Energy conservation has got to become a way of life.

00:09We'll make America great again.

00:111988 is the warmest year on the record.

00:14Those who think we're powerless to do anything about this greenhouse effect

00:17are forgetting about the White House effect.

00:20And as president, I intend to do something about it.

00:23In all the years when scientists began tracking temperature,

00:26the year that just ended was the warmest.

00:30It's happening.

00:33The warming has begun.

00:37George Bush wins.

00:39We need a new attitude about the environment.

00:42Bill Riley has agreed to serve as the administrator of the EPA.

00:46I found myself asking the question, is this really the best we can do?

00:50John Sununu will be George Bush's White House chief of staff.

00:54I don't think America wants not to be able to use their automobiles.

01:00Many in the environmental community are questioning your watering down global warming.

01:06What do you say to that?

01:07There's as many scientists who say that there's not global warming as scientists who say there is.

01:11Two diametrically opposed points of view.

01:14Now where does that leave us?

01:15Boycott, Exxon!

01:19Boycott, Exxon!

01:21What have we done that's so bad?

01:22If the Bush administration force you to change a scientific conclusion, it's science fraud by them.

01:32Wake up.

01:34If you are the environmental president, why don't you defend your own environmentalist?

01:39People start asking early in the next century, what is nature doing to us?

01:43It's not nature doing to us, it's what we're doing to nature and to ourselves.

01:48This problem has reached a new stage.

01:52Is science for sale?

01:56Environmental protection is about sustaining life on Earth.

01:59We dare not ignore it.

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