Update: We've recapped today's drinking game here.

We’re giddy with anticipation as we await President Bush’s Rose Garden speech on climate change later this afternoon. While well aware that we’re most likely setting ourselves up for a letdown -- especially given that White House officials already have lowered the bar and told us not to expect a specific plan – we nonetheless are looking forward to this rare, if not unprecedented, event.

To mark the occasion, we’ve devised a game for all of you who will be tuning in at 2:45 p.m. EST to see what the President has to say about the administration’s climate strategy. You may have played versions of this game before with other speeches, movies or television shows. The rules of the Bush Drinking Game are simple: We have created six categories of words and phrases that President Bush is likely, or in some cases unlikely, to say over the course of his remarks (this includes answers to questions following the speech).

If you’re playing at home, we suggest making this a drinking game, because, well, you’re at home at 2:45 on a Wednesday afternoon. Drinking at work, however, may qualify as reason for termination, and we don’t want anyone getting fired. So if you’re stuck at the office, we suggest that you and your colleagues use these following categories to create a Bush Bingo game. It’s guaranteed to liven up the day, especially if betting is involved.

Your categories for today’s speech begin after the jump. We’ll have a full recap later today:

Level 1: One sip of beer for each time the word or phrase is mentioned.

• Any form of the word "technology"
• India
• China
• "climate change"
• Biofuels
• Wind
• Solar
• Efficiency
• International
• "carbon dioxide"
• Oil
• Innovation
• Clean
• Nuclear
• Emissions
• Strategy (strategery counts)
  

Level 2: Two sips of beer for every mention.

• "good for the economy"
• "developing nations"
• "steady progress"
• "green jobs"
• "realistic goals"
• "clean coal"
• Ethanol
• EPA
• 2050
• Mandatory
• "international agreement"
• Europe
• Ozone
• Sequestration (mangled pronunciation)

Level 3: One shot of your favorite liquor.

• Sequestration (correct pronunciation)
• "scientific consensus" (though as writer Charlie Lawton points out, a lot depends on how qualified the reference is here … we’ll let you decide).
• "cap and trade"
• 2010 (or "20-in-10")
• Methane
• Switchgrass
• "acid rain"

Level 4: One shot of liquor followed by an entire beer.

• Lieberman-Warner
• "disagreement among scientists"
• "IPCC Report"
• "Regulatory trainwreck"
• Iraq
• Terrorism
• Melting

Level 5: Drink one bottle of wine or malt liquor.

• "carbon tax"
• "global warming"
• ExxonMobil
• "American dream"
• Al Gore
• "Kyoto Protocol"
• "Polar bears"

Level 6 (a.k.a. “Bush in his ‘youthful’ years”): Buy a keg and do not leave the house until all beer is consumed.

• "An Inconvenient Truth"
• If Bush takes out a pen and signs the Kyoto Protocol right there in the Rose Garden
  

Big thanks to Heather McKee, Rob Howard, Samantha Hulkower and Charlie Lawton for their help in coming up with these categories.