EPA’ s Lisa Jackson panders to Copenhagen on opening day. Planned for months of course, with public comment ignored. It is now the people -vs- the EPA, coming to a courtroom near you.
From the EPA press release:
EPA: Greenhouse Gases Threaten Public Health and the Environment
Science overwhelmingly shows greenhouse gas concentrations at unprecedented levels due to human activity
WASHINGTON – After a thorough examination of the scientific evidence and careful consideration of public comments, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that greenhouse gases (GHGs) threaten the public health and welfare of the American people. EPA also finds that GHG emissions from on-road vehicles contribute to that threat.
GHGs are the primary driver of climate change, which can lead to hotter, longer heat waves that threaten the health of the sick, poor or elderly; increases in ground-level ozone pollution linked to asthma and other respiratory illnesses; as well as other threats to the health and welfare of Americans.
“These long-overdue findings cement 2009’s place in history as the year when the United States Government began addressing the challenge of greenhouse-gas pollution and seizing the opportunity of clean-energy reform,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. “Business leaders, security experts, government officials, concerned citizens and the United States Supreme Court have called for enduring, pragmatic solutions to reduce the greenhouse gas pollution that is causing climate change. This continues our work towards clean energy reform that will cut GHGs and reduce the dependence on foreign oil that threatens our national security and our economy.”
EPA’s final findings respond to the 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision that GHGs fit within the Clean Air Act definition of air pollutants. The findings do not in and of themselves impose any emission reduction requirements but rather allow EPA to finalize the GHG standards proposed earlier this year for new light-duty vehicles as part of the joint rulemaking with the Department of Transportation.
On-road vehicles contribute more than 23 percent of total U.S. GHG emissions. EPA’s proposed GHG standards for light-duty vehicles, a subset of on-road vehicles, would reduce GHG emissions by nearly 950 million metric tons and conserve 1.8 billion barrels of oil over the lifetime of model year 2012-2016 vehicles.
EPA’s endangerment finding covers emissions of six key greenhouse gases – carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride – that have been the subject of scrutiny and intense analysis for decades by scientists in the United States and around the world.
Scientific consensus shows that as a result of human activities, GHG concentrations in the atmosphere are at record high levels and data shows that the Earth has been warming over the past 100 years, with the steepest increase in warming in recent decades. The evidence of human-induced climate change goes beyond observed increases in average surface temperatures; it includes melting ice in the Arctic, melting glaciers around the world, increasing ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, acidification of the oceans due to excess carbon dioxide, changing precipitation patterns, and changing patterns of ecosystems and wildlife.
President Obama and Administrator Jackson have publicly stated that they support a legislative solution to the problem of climate change and Congress’ efforts to pass comprehensive climate legislation. However, climate change is threatening public health and welfare, and it is critical that EPA fulfill its obligation to respond to the 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that determined that greenhouse gases fit within the Clean Air Act definition of air pollutants.
EPA issued the proposed findings in April 2009 and held a 60-day public comment period. The agency received more than 380,000 comments, which were carefully reviewed and considered during the development of the final findings.
Information on EPA’s findings: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/endangerment.html
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You know, reading that EPA blurb made me realise what science has become – vacuous.
What’s waiting at the EPA next week? H2O …the hidden menace, Aspens?…big wavy twigs or world domination? Plankton … friend or foe? Tidal forces.. is the Moon green cheese or a rotten heart? Coming up after the break…Oxygen?.. corrosion or life? Have your say by dialling 0800-OXYGEN-VOTE
We only assume that a bigger brain is an advantage in the wacky world of evolution. I think the EPA are demonstrating the flaw in that assumption.
What will fossil hunters, a couple of hundred million years from now, make of it all? Beds of fossilised apes huddled together surrounded by unburned fuel. Ha ha .. work that one out future dominant species.
Robbie (19:53:30) :
By and large I think you may be preaching to the choir hereabouts. Your post should stand though as some may not have heard his words. Many (not here) have suggested that his diseased mind is all better now but as you can see he has simply kept his mouth shut for a while in order to get a better position.
Not being a US citizen I didn’t have much of an opinion regarding Obama becoming President. Another day another President kind of attitude. Having watched the kind of advisor’s he has taken aboard though I think panic should have been the more appropriate response.
Holdren is something that should have been tried at Nuremberg and promptly dispensed with yet here he is advising the US President. He was and is a gruesome individual. That he has the ear of Obama and Obama hasn’t dispensed with him a long time ago is a very worrying situation. If I carry on with my true views of Holdren I will be severely snipped by the mods (if I haven’t been already)
What is more worrying is that here in the UK our Government seems to pick up the same kind of “science advisor”. If you want a taste just google “uk science advisor” for a very long list of “wack jobs”. Dangerous doesn’t begin to describe these people and “science” would do well to distance itself from them. If the messy stuff hits the fan, all of “science” will carry the sins of these people if they have not moved to another room.
I know this link is on other threads, but for those who haven’t seen it yet, Lord Monckton rips them all a new A-hole, and by name too:
http://www.cfact.tv/2009/12/07/lord-monckton-on-climategate-at-the-2nd-international-climate-conference/
It is so apparent that his language is now litigation-proof. He looks like he’s asking them to sue him for libel/slander (if they dare come out of hiding). Go for it CROOKS, he’s waiting for you.
Thanks Whistleblower with a capital “W”.
Americans have been hit with the equivalent Pearl Harbour sneak attack (as mentioned before note the same date) and don’t even know it. More to come at Copenhagen me thinks.
The Globalists are dancing in the street. Climate gate, who cares, they can do anything they want, for any reason real or contrived, and nobody can stop them. They create peoples reality with lies and distortion of the truth, so the lie becomes the truth.
I LOL at an earlier comment about faith in the courts to reign in EPA, esp given it was the courts who ruled that EPA should regulate CO2 if they found it harmful to people-most public buildings have CO2 levels at 3000 ppm or more, and outside air is under 400, maybe 600 or so by the road in the cities. So what kind of science deems CO2 harmful to man? . Voodoo Science.
Such is the way the world works. It’s almost funny if it was not so tragic.
Unfortunately the UK, Europe, and America have something in common,
the populations appear to be made up of,
lilly brained sheepeople.
They do and believe what they are told to.
funny..sort of, for what the subjects is..
in english:-) always a bonus
To pft and Derek:
Check out the video series online “Century of the Self”, produced by the BBC around 2002, I think. It talks about the history of public relations (PR). I think it will explain a lot of what we’re seeing. Note that COTS is biased towards the social democratic perspective, but it’s still worth viewing.