Bush addressed the enviromental issue during a press conference in the White House Rose Garden earlier on Monday, promising his own version of the now doomed Kyoto accord meant to curb global warming.

"I am today telling you that we will do the enviromental thing," he told the assembled, "based on pure scientistic evidence that we should probably have in about five years or so."

Critics say no further studies need to be done, pointing out current overwhelming evidence that concludes global warming is a real event and is hastened by human developments and industry. They say waiting any longer to act will just make the situation that much worse.

Despite these findings, the Bush administration has kept a cool distance from such research, preferring to do a climate-change study of their own. In that way, the president claimed, the administration can "skew the numbers to looks good to everybody without actually making the industrial peoples pay money to reduces their own pollution."

Not only will enviromental standards and the controversial missile defense system put Bush at odds with Europeans, the federal execution of Timothy McVeigh injects more controversy to the mix. The execution and its broadcast for survivors and those who lost loved ones in the bombing is seen as inhumane by some Europeans, where capital punishment has been abolished. The last execution was in France in 1977, when a man was put to death via the guillotine for disputing the comic genius of Jerry Lewis.

Since the administration is far out of step with views of it's European allies, many are curious how the president will handle his first visit overseas.