SCOTUS Says EPA Can Regulate Carbon

ThanatosMinor writes "In a 5-4 decision today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, saying that the EPA's reasons for not doing so in the past were 'arbitrary, capricious or otherwise not in accordance with law.' The ruling does not require the EPA to regulate carbon. But concerns about global climate change and its ties to human activity did appear to be deciding factors in the case." The AP coverage stresses that the ruling upholds the right of states to sue the Federal government over issues of global warming.

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The AP coverage stresses that the ruling upholds the right of states to sue the Federal government over issues of global warming.

Maybe they will suddnly change the studies to show CO2 is only a small contributor to warming, say on the order of burning a candle in a house causes the house to become warmer.

After all, our global warming is the same as the global warming and loss of polar ice caps on Mars. It must be the sun that is the big factor, just like your house gets colder in winter and warmer in summer in spite of burning a candle. There is positive proof that burning a candle adds heat to a house. There is also proof positive that CO2 is a greenhouse gas and a contributor to global warming. How much it warming it causes is the subject of a lot of science and political debate.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/07 0228-mars-warming.html