An ABC reporter asks President Bush the long-overdue question: you’ve said the “fundamental debate” is about whether global warming is natural or man-made. Scientists overwhelmingly say it’s man-made. Do you still doubt that, and if so, based on what?

Bush says: “I don’t know where you got that quote from.”

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President Bush, March 29, 2006: “… the globe is warming. The fundamental debate: Is it manmade or natural.”

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