EPA Follies (Administrator deep-sixes scientific findings - just wait for the global warming RATS)

CBS News ^ | 3/28/08 | Kevin Drum

[Libloather]

EPA Follies
By Kevin Drum
Mar 28, 2008

(Political Animal) EPA FOLLIES....Last year the Supreme Court ruled, contrary to the Bush administration's wishes, that greenhouse gases were a pollutant that came under the jurisdiction of the EPA. So the EPA's scientists took a look, and they concluded that, yes, greenhouse gases contributed to global warming and ought to be regulated under the Clean Air Act. The White House, of course, was not happy about this, so on Thursday EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson deep-sixed the scientific findings and opened up a "lengthy public comment period" to give corporate contributors the public a chance to weigh in on this. Reaction was swift:

"This is a transparent delaying tactic and a major reversal of EPA's position," said Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills). "The Bush administration is recklessly abandoning its responsibility to address the global warming crisis."

"It's outrageous," said Sierra Club attorney David Bookbinder, one of the lead attorneys on the case, who said he would ask the Supreme Court next week to order the EPA to act within 60 days.

I say: chill. And don't ask the Supreme Court to do anything. Not only will they refuse, but it would be a blunder anyway. After all, do we really want the Bush/Cheney administration crafting greenhouse gas regulations?

I didn't think so. Better to let 'em stall, and then next year let a Democratic president, Democratic Congress, and Democratic EPA administrator create regulations that are actually useful and properly targeted. Even on the off chance that John McCain suckers the press into installing him as president, he's better on this issue than Bush and his Stepford aides.

So let's go ahead and use the next 300 days to get our ducks in a row. We can do a lot more next January than we can by fighting rear-guard battles now.

[Libloather]

"Most snow in a century? Who knew?"

[steelyourfaith]

 

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[Tex Pete]

Speaking of folly...

[ghost of nixon]

LOL - yes even the baby harp seals are enjoying extra thick ice which is protecting them from evil hunters as we speak. No comment by the MSM as to where the extra thick ice came from in the midst of this massive warm-up.

[goldfinch]

If you are happy about this, shoot GWB an email to let him know. And be sure to thank him for not giving in to the GW pressure. And enjoy it now. President Bush bought the United States 8 more years of freedom on this issue. When Bush leaves office, the only hope we have is that we have really cold weather for a decade...or whatever it takes to prove that GW is a hoax.

[KingKenrod]

A temporary victory - all 3 presidential candidates are on the global warming bandwagon. The only thing that will keep us from more regulation is a Senate filibuster.

[thulldud]

Last year the Supreme Court ruled, contrary to the Bush administration's wishes, that greenhouse gases were a pollutant that came under the jurisdiction of the EPA.

They didn't bother at the time to tell us who should stop breathing. I'm sure they'll eventually get around to it.

[Jacquerie]

The slide down the slippery slope of once good intentions continues. The Clean Air Act will be (is) used by rats to kill our economy and make it ripe for utopian solutions. In much the same way the Endangered Species Act is also used to stifle free enterprise. These 30+ year old laws have morphed into whatever the Left needs to achieve their fascist goals.

[muawiyah]

Really doesn't matter who ends up writing the regulations, the notice and comment period is where the "new ideas" are going to be presented for consideration by EPA, and they must consider each and every idea, and then, at the end of the notice and comment period, prepare a statement concerning the utility of those ideas.

I think we have a winner here. First, someone draft a piece on the use of gasmasks that the general public must begin using to trap each person's CO2. I can imagine entire books written about how these things can be custom designed to be adapted to infants.

The possibilities are endless.

[Libloather]

They didn't bother at the time to tell us who should stop breathing.

All animals breath & pollute - no? Tax the tiger.

[rfp1234]

...greenhouse gases were a pollutant that came under the jurisdiction of the EPA...

Therefore, you Einsteins on the left, water vapor (the most abundant greenhouse gas) is also a pollutant and most be regulated.

More climate-change crapaganda^TM!

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Not to mention that Solar activity (Sun Spots) has dropped to levels that are similar to those during the Little Ice Age. Perhaps in the next several years, they will be begging for Global Warming, since availability and price of energy and heating fuel is beyond what most people can afford.

And since Mars and Venus are also showing the same cooling, it is obvious that the Global Warming hype was Solar related after all. Simply part of a cyclical 30 year Solar maximum. But similar Solar minimums can last much longer than that. The one that drove the little Ice Age lasted 300 years. If so, forget about agricultural alternative fuels, crops will be very limited during such a climactic catastrophe.

[LtKerst]

said Rep. Henry A. Waxman .....the idiot.

[MarkeyD]

I’d heard about Mars warming, but not cooling. Got a link?

[chaos_5]

The militant environmentalist always get their way. DDT is banned. Freon is baned. It's only a matter of time, they WILL regulate CO2.

[chaos_5]

When we start cooling they will only say “Mother Gia” has bought us some time, and if it wasn't for the reduced solar activity we would be really cooked , so we had better hurry up and ban CO2 befor the warming starts again.

[I got the rope]

Kevin Drum is an idiot. The Supreme court never said CO2 was a pollutant. Nor did it say the EPA had to regulate it.

[aruanan]

Better to let 'em stall, and then next year let a Democratic president, Democratic Congress, and Democratic EPA administrator create regulations that are actually useful and properly targeted.

Sure, like the environmentalist Ruckelshaus who has murdered millions of children and sickened billions through his anti-science, pro-environmentalist unilateral banning of DDT. Yeah, we really need regulators like him and Barry Commoner and the others who promoted the hoax of the toxic sea of man-made carcinogens that would kill us all by 2000 unless we created government regulatory bodies like the EPA to keep us safe and slow down economic growth.

Please, Al, if there's a draft Al movement, please accept so that at the polls we can give you the proper butt kicking you've so richly deserved for so many years and so many stupid statements.