I'm sorry. I couldn't even finish the thought without thinking of this munch. Didn't he have a reservoir drained so he would have enough water to paddle his canoe for a campaign photo op?
Posted on 11/14/2006 8:02:59 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Environmentalists sued the Bush administration Tuesday for failing to produce a report on global warming's impact on the country's environment, economy and public health.
The lawsuit seeks to compel the U.S. Climate Change Science Program to issue the national assessment, which should contain the most recent scientific data on global warming and projections for its future impacts. The plaintiffs claim the government must complete such a report every four years under the Global Change Research Act of 1990.
"Global warming is one of the most serious threats facing humanity today," according to the complaint. Without the report, decision makers and the public "are without one of the most important tools to grapple with this complex, potentially overwhelming and yet all important issue."
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, which was named in the lawsuit, had not received the complaint Tuesday and could not comment on it, said spokesman Ben Fallon.
But Fallon defended the administration's record on combating global warming, pointing to increased funding for alternative energy research and partnerships with other countries.
"We feel very positive about our record on climate change," Fallon said. "The president has been focused on results-driven research and looking for practical ways to address climate change in ways that aren't damaging to the economy."
Officials at the Climate Change Science Program, also named in the complaint, did not immediately respond to calls seeking comment.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in San Francisco by the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace.
The assessment, which plaintiffs allege was due in November 2004, is the "first step in crafting solutions to the devastating consequences of climate change if we don't act now," said Julie Teel, an attorney for the plaintiffs.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who has also been calling on the administration to issue the assessment, expressed support for the lawsuit.
"It's the right time to push Washington to grapple with this issue," Kerry said in a statement. "For too many years, action on global climate change has been stopped dead in its tracks by government foot-dragging, hiding information and smothering science."
Environmentalists have accused the administration of trying to suppress dissemination of the previous assessment, issued in 2000, which predicted a dramatic rise in catastrophic storms, floods, droughts and heat-related deaths.
The lawsuit comes as experts from around the world meet in Nairobi for the two-week U.N. climate conference, where they have been trying to set a course for future controls on global greenhouse gas emissions.
Scientists attribute at least some of the past century's 1-degree rise in global temperatures to the accumulation in the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases, byproducts of power plants, automobiles and other fossil fuel-burning sources.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in San Francisco by the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace.
And so it begins...
And so it begins...
Can we sue them for wasteing paper and our time?
"And so it begins..."
You can say that agai... Oh, never mind.
The paper thing might actually work. How many trees does it take for an Enviro-whacko to prove a point?
so-called Global Warming is not settled science. It's still a theory and there are plenty of scientists and climatologists world-wide who disagree vehemently with the "greens", but of course, the MSM will never allow those voices to be heard. This is just a publicity stunt to get people all worked up about the environment. They have no true legal basis to make their claim; it's just a bunch of silly hoopla.
I'm sorry. I couldn't even finish the thought without thinking of this munch. Didn't he have a reservoir drained so he would have enough water to paddle his canoe for a campaign photo op?
I think I'm going to gather signatures to get a proposition on the ballot in Arizona making it simple for those of us who work for a living to sue morons who are always being a pain in the ass all of the time like these dope-smoking, gay enviroloonies.
How do you issue a report on something that doesn't exist?
Yes he did. I think it was in CT. At the same time he was reinventing himself with earth tone colors and socks stuffed down his crotch. Democrats are demented.
The answer is 666.
That is a great idea. Sign me up!!!
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