Posted on 12/07/2009 11:51:00 AM PST by GonzoII
America's Environmental Protection Agency has announced that greenhouse gases are a danger to human health.
The ruling will allow it to regulate emissions without the approval of the US Congress - a move designed to show President Obama is taking climate change seriously.
The president and more than 100 other world leaders, including Gordon Brown, are set to attend a summit at the end of the talks in Copenhagen, which take place until December 18.
The meeting is being described as the "best, last chance" to save the planet.
The Obama administration wants to show that the US, which has shunned the current Kyoto Protocol, is taking action to combat global warming, even though Congress has yet to act on climate legislation.
Around 15,000 delegates are attending the talks which aim to agree immediate action to curb greenhouse gases and come up with billions of pounds in aid and technology to help poorer countries limit emissions.
The EPA has concluded greenhouse gases are endangering people's health and must be regulated.
The so-called endangerment finding is needed before the EPA can regulate carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases released from power plants, factories and cars.
The EPA would be able to order better insulation or greener technology to reduce emissions in the US, the world's largest economy and second biggest source of carbon blamed for global warming.
But the move has already faced fierce resistance by Republicans in Congress, which has yet to finalise legislation that would order emission cuts by 2020 of between 17% and 20% from 2005 levels.
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This will increase pressure on the Congress to pass a cap and trade bill that would take away the EPA’s power to regulate CO2 emissions. The Republicans should stand firm and let the Democrats lie in the bed they have made. They should also hammer home the implications of ClimateGate and make it clear that all laws based on faulty science will be repealed when we retake power.
Sorry, but nothing allows them to bypass congress, especially when it comes to levying taxes or spending money. The house must do that, period. Senators and Reps need to jump on this with both feet and take back their authority and tell the EPA, and Bozo, to shove it.
Yet another little known factoid. About 98.6% of hydrocarbons released yearly into the Earths oceans are as a result of natural seepage from gas vents and cracks in the ocean floor. Another 1.2 percent are as a result of decaying matter runoff from rivers. Man's direct contribution... .2 percent max! This figure is completely swamped out for years on end every time there is a significant volcanic eruption.
The average erupting volcano spews cubic miles of hydrocarbons into the atmosphere that mostly settles into the oceans. Think about it. Mount St. Helen produced more "Green House Gasses" in a single eruption than Mankind has produced since the dawn of the industrial revolution. Yet according to these scam artists, were the ones steering Global Climate.
ABC, CBS, and NBC are aiding this. We need to start with the media.
I’m afraid you are right. Desperately afraid.
Freedom isn’t free.
No, it isn't, and we will pay a price to regain that precious commodity - but our enemies are going to pay much, much more.
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