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Two Powerful Blows Against Air Pollution Controls
The NYTimes reports from Washington on two separate actions on Friday that, between them, have halted Bush administration clean-air initiatives in their tracks. The current administration is no favorite of environmental groups, but these groups sided with the administration in a court case brought by the utility companies. On Friday an appeals court threw out the EPA's Clean Air Interstate Rule, established in 2005. The court ruled that the EPA had exceeded its authority when it established that rule, which set new requirements for major pollutants. According to the article, even the utilities were appalled to see the rule completely gutted; their objections had been narrower. Here is a podcast with the reporter (MP3) giving some background on the ruling. The second major blow to clean-air efforts came later in the day on Friday. Quoting: "...the EPA chief rejected any obligation to regulate heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide under existing law, saying that to do so would involve an 'unprecedented expansion' of the agency's authority that would have 'a profound effect on virtually every sector of the economy,' touching 'every household in the land.'... In effect, Mr. Johnson was simultaneously publishing the policy analysis of his scientific and legal experts and repudiating its conclusions."
They're a band-aid group that exists to make us feel like we're actually doing something to help the environment as we continue to pump the biosphere full of toxic crap. E.P.A. = Easily Pacified Americans
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Actually, it stands for "Europeans Pollute Also", although they rarely want to admit it.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
This couldnt be more f'd up
Oh, stfu. You ain't sufferin and you won't be.
The same fucktards that said - by the year 2000, folks! - we'd be eating each other to survive and predicted a global ice age during the 70s are the same fucktards behind global warming.
Fuck the planet. After we're done raping this rock for every resource, we'll move on to the next one.
Not trolling, not trying to flame - it's how I truly feel. Since I'm not worshipping "Gaia" or bashing "Bush", I'll get modded to hell... but, you know, I care about that as much as I care about the fucking spotted owl.
Hm. KFO. Kentucky Fried Owl. Sounds yummy!
"The fight for freedom has only just begun." - Geert Wilders
Just like anyone that can prove it *is* happening would win a Nobel prize for it. Or better yet, some proof that it's man-made.
I think it is hilarious that all these environmental wacko hippies get all crazy about CO2 being emitted in excess. Do you know that there's something perfectly natural that eats up CO2? They are called p-l-a-n-t-s. That's right, the more CO2 in the air, the better plants grow. It almost seems as if this earth were designed in such a way that we couldn't mess it up. Global warming... you hippy morons should come up to michigan in the winter (last winter was record breakingly cold and long) and talk about global warming.
wrong. the whole CO2 warms the planet nonsense started from a paper written by a britsh climatologist (the name escapes me right now), in which he proposed we could fight the comming ice age by pumping massive amounts of CO2 into the air. he was laughed at an dismissed, ironicly. this was later combined with the findings of rising CO2 levels and put forth as a hypothesis. of course the eco crusaders soon ceased on this as fact and thats how we got where we are today. nothing about man made CO2, of which accounts for 2.8% of the total CO2 in the air, is proven to cause rising temps. I challenge you to show me actual proof that's more than "this graph seems to be trending the same as this other graph, therefore it MUST be the CO2"
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Try standing downwind from a mexican.
really so my dyslexia invalidates all my points does it?
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Satellite global temps
The planetary temperatures are either flat or cooling down. Since its been two weeks since the last sunspot, can anyone say "Little Ice Age"?
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So Bush and his Republican Congress created environmental controls that didn't do the job, and were illegal anyway. So eventually the power industry would get them thrown out, and leave us with nothing.
Which is kinda like Bush overall. While in power he did little but stand in the way, and now all we can do is flush him down the toilet. Meanwhile, years are lost in which polluters get to squeeze some bucks out of our environment in exchange for damaging our health.
And Bush gets to breathe free in Crawford, Texas.
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Aren't we at solar minimum right now?
Yes, and a cooling down has started. Didn't you notice last winter?
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