Posted on 08/04/2013 12:21:41 AM PDT by iowamark
EACH of us took turns over the past 43 years running the Environmental Protection Agency. We served Republican presidents, but we have a message that transcends political affiliation: the United States must move now on substantive steps to curb climate change, at home and internationally.
There is no longer any credible scientific debate about the basic facts: our world continues to warm, with the last decade the hottest in modern records, and the deep ocean warming faster than the earth’s atmosphere. Sea level is rising. Arctic Sea ice is melting years faster than projected.
The costs of inaction are undeniable. The lines of scientific evidence grow only stronger and more numerous. And the window of time remaining to act is growing smaller: delay could mean that warming becomes “locked in.”
A market-based approach, like a carbon tax, would be the best path to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, but that is unachievable in the current political gridlock in Washington. Dealing with this political reality, President Obama’s June climate action plan lays out achievable actions that would deliver real progress. He will use his executive powers to require reductions in the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the nation’s power plants and spur increased investment in clean energy technology, which is inarguably the path we must follow to ensure a strong economy along with a livable climate.
The president also plans to use his regulatory power to limit the powerful warming chemicals known as hydrofluorocarbons and encourage the United States to join with other nations to amend the Montreal Protocol to phase out these chemicals. The landmark international treaty, which took effect in 1989, already has been hugely successful in solving the ozone problem.
Rather than argue against his proposals, our leaders in Congress should endorse them...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Ruckelhaus's name isn't the only dupe they added to this screed. Christie Todd Whitman and most of the rest are pretty much at that "soiling themselves" age, too. No, there was likely one author behind this nonsense. Adding all the names was just a gimmick. The multi-trillion-dollar forever "carbon tax" is what it's all about, the ultimate goal. It's about the money. That's all this scam was ever about. It's always about the money.
Yes, likely one true author artfully preying upon the desire of has-beens to stay relevant.
Well, that isn't credible. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3050902/posts
Each time I see something like this, my first question is “name one Island that has disappeared from rising sea levels”
Just another asinine revenue opportunity and legalized theft activity
There are geographic features in the world where the ocean covered up what was above-surface geological formations. I don’t remember the name but a few days ago Bing’s home page showed an underwater cavern that arose in this manner. It wasn’t that terribly long ago on a geological time scale, a few hundred thousand years I think.
I just re-read "State of Fear" and it occurred to me: Michael Crichton was assassinated. He died too young.
In a really gripping fictional story, he wrote truth with footnoted sources to prove and expose that blatant fraud of environmentalist climate claims. Every American grade school kid should have State of Fear in required reading. And tell them: It's by the same guy who wrote "Jurassic Park."
The global warming fraud could only take hold over ignorant, passive saps. Like primitives who believed it when British explores with almanacs "called down" an eclipse of the sun. The mechanisms that move the earth are so far beyond us that we have only even existed for a nanosecond in relative time.
Climate records of 100 years, or even 500 years -- or even 50,000 years -- are so minute in the actual scale that it's ludicrous to even think our lifespans, or 500 of our lifespans, would be enough to detect a significant change. All you have to do is to look at the spikes in a graph chart and zero-in on a timespan of, say, 1,000 years (a speck on the chart), to see how insane it is to presume to even predict, let alone manipulate, climate and weather.
Yep. And in our lives, in our time-mass scale, 10,000 years is one second from now.
An excellent contrast.
We can save the Earth in 100 years by lowering temps by 0.0001 degree for only $300 TRILLION.... is that too much to ask?
lolz
A tax is a market-based approach....
hahahahahahahahahaha
these people are stupid
Surely, this is the warmists’ last gasp. They have dragged these political hacks out of retirement to coauthor (or cosign) an opinion piece saying we have to act NOW!
The panic which is setting in among the AGW crowd is palpable. Their grants are going to dry up. There has been no warming for more than 15 years despite increasing CO2. Western economies are burdened with huge debts, and a lot them are suffering with high unemployment. Politicians now have other priorities besides global warming. Public opinion polls are showing global warming to be of little interest to the public. The game is up. The joy ride has come to an end.
This opinion piece was probably ghost written by one of the AGW crowd. Someone with influence in the cocktail set in D.C. rounded up these old EPA heads and got them to sign their names to it. One thing for sure: being head of the EPA does not qualify you to speak on any scientific topic whatsoever. You got there for political reasons, you are a political animal, and your motives are always suspect.
They AREN,T dimwits; they’re political whores. They’ve sold themselves to The New World Order. There are some mind-boggling stupid statements in that article; such as, “the deep oceans are warming faster than the atmosphere.” IF that is truly happening, it MUST be coming from increased volcanic activity on the ocean floor, which would be caused by plate techtonics.....continental drift. And, pray tell; how is my swtching to an electric pretend car going to stop CONTINENTAL DRIFT?! Not only are these people conscience-less lying frauds, they’re apparently dumber than a box of rocks....or think WE are!
They do think we are stupid, they are obviously part of some cabal that benefits from keeping everyone else poor.
” And despite critics’ warnings, our economy has continued to grow. “
That’s in there. Um, no it hasn’t really morons. At a snail’s pace at best.
While we are starving and freezing to death living in the reeducation camps I am sure to be worrying about global warming
It is obvious that none of these people wrote the article. It would be interesting to find out who wrote the article and how these Republicans were persuaded to put their names on it.
Things are a lot worse and a lot more corrupt than most people realize.
One of the many great global scams
Inflation hurts the poor, how shocking.
Wait, I just read a thread right above this one that says that the North Pole has seen unprecedented July cold and the arctic it’s shortest summer on record. So, what is it? Wait, I know. It’s getting colder! Not global warming but climate change! Yea, that’s the ticket. Sheesh!
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