Posted on 12/09/2009 6:34:27 PM PST by opentalk
Republicans and conservative think tanks are calling for the Obama administration to revoke its declaration that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant subject to EPA regulation on the grounds that the EPA's primary source of information for the finding was the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the source of the highly controversial "Climategate" e-mails.
Newsmax has verified there are 34 references to IPCC information in the EPA's 25-page "Proposed Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases," which was published in the April 24 edition of the Federal Register (pages 18886-18910).
This is the document the EPA used to support its preliminary finding, which in turn provided the underpinning for the Endangerment Finding issued on Monday.
IPCC Director Phil Jones has stated that he regrets sending some of the e-mails. He has stepped down pending an investigation.
The e-mails were anonymously hacked and posted on the Internet, and suggest climate scientists may have selectively presented data to strengthen the case for global warming. One e-mail referred to a desire to "beat the crap" out of a climate-change skeptic. Another termed the lack of recent warming a "travesty." And another discussed using a "trick" to "hide the decline."
Jones has said he wrote the e-mails hastily, but did not manipulate data.
The EPA's ruling that it is authorized under the Clean Air Act to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide – a byproduct given off whenever a hydrocarbon fuel is burned – is based on a "technical support document," or TSD.
According to the EPA's Endangerment Finding, "The TSD therefore relies most heavily on the major assessment reports of both the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) and the U.S. Climate Change Science Program."
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Hide the Decline!
Pray for America’s Freedom
They’re not going to change their minds: they’re liberals.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the climate, gases, or polar bears.
This is the appropriation of American money and power. Communists have seized power now they want the loot.
I guess if they’re not dropping bombs, or driving tanks down your street, communists are just not that big a threat these days.
I mean, who needs the stress of that, right?
good luck on that one.
Obama can hire Hillary’s pollster Mark Penn to develop some Public Service announcements about climategate with that 6million dollars his firm got for job stimulus. A criminal administration.
Conservatives need a strategy to win 60 solid Senator seats next elections. and reverse the spiral into a black hole. Is anyone doing this? This may need to be a grass roots level like Tea Partiers.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. ...
BTTT
Conservatives need a strategy to win 60 solid Senator seats next elections. “
Why would the commie progressives be dropping daily bombs on us, one after another, when they know full well that doing so would risk them the elections?
What elections?
2010 mid term, 2012 general
Gibbs will simply look the camera i nthe eye, and say “Nuh Uh- there’s no controversy- The GOP is just using scare tactics to frighten people aweay from sound science”
start calling this thing what it is. It’s the carbon-CON. They are frothing at the mouth to start punitive tax on all energy. Can you afford 12k a year for gas/electric for your home??
Obama said that GOP is fear mongering against his policies.
BUT OBAMA’S POLICIES ARE FEAR MONGERS THEMSELVES.
OBAMA ... STUPID AS STUPID DOES.
Now that would be one heckuva national protest. Can you imagine?
A lot of people are still operating as if it's business as usual. They haven't quite come to terms with what is going on.
There will probably still be elections. They'll just be a little closer to how the Soviet's held them.
The Federal Data Quality Act made using unfounded 'scientific' conclusions to dictate policy ILLEGAL.
It was used the first time Goofy Gore tried his global warming scam.
The Republicans need to pull their backsides out of their 'think tanks' and march themselves to the courthouse and start filing lawsuits.
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