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Obama Unveils Major Climate Change Proposal

Posted by samzenpus on from the it's-getting-hot-in-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Two years in the making, President Obama formally unveiled his plan to cut power plant emissions today, calling it the "single most important step that America has ever made in the fight against global climate change." The "Clean Power Plan" includes the first ever EPA standards on carbon pollution from power plants. CNN reports: "Under the plan, the administration will require states to meet specific carbon emission reduction standards, based on their individual energy consumption. The plan also includes an incentive program for states to get a head start on meeting standards on early deployment of renewable energy and low-income energy efficiency."

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  1. Re:Obama should do a fact check... by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 4, Informative

    For all the fear mongering, the oceans haven't risen,

    Yes, they have.

    the weather is fine,

    Is that a joke?

    and life has been carrying on.

    Well, except for the mass extinction.

    If AGW supporters are correct

    AKA "PhD scientists studying this for the last few decades".

    then the changes being proposed won't change the outcome by enough to matter.

    There is no one grand solution to AGW. There are a lot of smaller steps that added together might make a difference. Failing to do any of them certainly will not help.

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  2. Re:Oh boy, here we go... by Daemonik · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, I live in a coal state. My description was completely accurate.

  3. Re:Could not agree more by BlueStrat · · Score: 2, Informative

    Many ppl note the fact that the far right HATES science and pick and choose what they want to. And they are correct.

    Orly?

    "After years of being lambasted by the left as uneducated rubes, a recent study by a Yale law professor proves members of the Tea Party are actually more likely to understand scientific issues than is the rest of the population."

    http://www.westernjournalism.c...

    "Yale Law professor Dan M. Kahan was conducting an analysis of the scientific comprehension of various political groups when he ran into a shocking discovery: tea party supporters are slightly more scientifically literate than the non-tea party population.

    When composing histograms of the scientific inference abilities of liberals and conservatives, he discovered that those who described themselves as tea party supporters came out pretty well, based on National Science Foundation standards of evaluation:"

    http://www.ijreview.com/2013/1...

    ~Sigh~ SMH

    Strat

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    Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.