Secret Bush Administration document concluded greenhouse gases endanger America

The curtain continues to open on Bush Administration actions that covered up the danger posed to America by global warming. You’ve seen the declassified photos, now read the declassified document (pdf).
The secret Bush document reaches the same conclusion as the Obama Administration’s 2009 endangerment finding on carbon dioxide, but might have prompted action to curb global warming two years earlier:
Reporting from Washington – The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday released a long-suppressed report by George W. Bush administration officials who had concluded — based on science — that the government should begin regulating greenhouse gas emissions because global warming posed serious risks to the country.
The report, known as an “endangerment finding,” was done in 2007. The Bush White House refused to make it public because it opposed new government efforts to regulate the gases most scientists see as the major cause of global warming.
The existence of the finding — and the refusal of the Bush administration to make it public — were already known. But no copy of the document had been released until Tuesday.
The document “demonstrates that in 2007 the science was as clear as it is today,” said Adora Andy, EPA spokeswoman. “The conclusions reached then by EPA scientists should have been made public and should have been considered.”
via Bush-era EPA document on climate change released — latimes.com.
The Obama Administration’s endangerment finding empowers the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as pollutants, which has spurred Congress to introduce climate bills in the House and Senate.