The EPA’s war on carbon
Eco-czars of the Obama administration, activate!
Form of…a corrupted “scientific” finding on greenhouse gas “public endangerment.”
Timed for maximum impact on the Copenhagen global warming treaty talks, the Obama EPA is set to announce that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare, paving the way for the green bureaucrats to radically regulate emissions.
Keeping an open mind about dissenting researchers? Listening to input from the Hill? Screw them:
The Obama administration is pressing for a new law that would establish a cap-and-trade system to curb emissions from power plants and scores of other sources. But the administration has also warned that it plans to move ahead with EPA rules absent a final bill. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is urging GOP colleagues to back an emissions bill in part because Congress, not EPA, should decide the contours of a national emissions program. The so-called endangerment finding stems from a major 2007 Supreme Court decision that enables EPA to limit the emissions if it finds that greenhouses gases are indeed a danger. The agency issued a preliminary finding in April.
The EPA announcement could also give U.S. negotiators more leverage at the international climate talks in Copenhagen that begin today, demonstrating domestic action even though Congress has not completed a final bill to curb emissions.
Although EPA chief Lisa Jackson will make the announcement this afternoon, the edict has global warming zealot and Obama energy czar/chief ClimateGate denier Carol “Put nothing in writing…ever” Browner’s fingerprints all over it.
Take a moment to refresh your memories on how Obama’s enviro-ministers have dealt with inside watchdogs on the endangerment issue. It’s the same way the ClimateGate cabal has dealt with its critics: By attempting to squash them. From my June 26 column:
The free market-based Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington (where I served as a journalism fellow in 1995) obtained a set of internal e-mails exposing Team Obama’s willful and reckless disregard for data that undermine the illusion of “consensus.” In March, Alan Carlin, a senior research analyst at the Environmental Protection Agency, asked agency officials to distribute his analysis on the health effects of greenhouse gases. EPA has proposed a public health “endangerment finding” covering CO2 and five other gases that would trigger costly, extensive new regulations of motor vehicles. The open comment period on the ruling ended this week. But Carlin’s study didn’t fit the blame-human-activity narrative, so it didn’t make the cut.
On March 12, Carlin’s director, Al McGartland, forbade him from having “any direct communication” with anyone outside his office about his study. “There should be no meetings, emails, written statements, phone calls, etc.” On March 16, Carlin urged his superiors to forward his work to EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, which runs the agency’s climate change program. A day later, McGartland dismissed Carlin and showed his true, politicized colors:
“The time for such discussion of fundamental issues has passed for this round. The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision… I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office.”
Contrary comments, in other words, would interfere with the “process” of ramming the EPA’s endangerment finding through. Truth-in-science took a backseat to protecting eco-bureaucrats from “a very negative impact.”
In another follow-up e-mail, McGartland warned Carlin to drop the subject altogether: “With the endangerment finding nearly final, you need to move on to other issues and subjects. I don’t want you to spend any additional EPA time on climate change. No papers, no research etc, at least until we see what EPA is going to do with Climate.”
But, of course, the e-mails show that EPA had already predetermined what it was going to do – “move forward on endangerment.” Which underscores the fact that the open public comment period was all for show. In her message to the public about the radical greenhouse gas rules, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson requested “comment on the data on which the proposed findings are based, the methodology used in obtaining and analyzing the data, and the major legal interpretations and policy considerations underlying the proposed findings.” Ms. Jackson, meet Mr. Carlin.
The EPA now justifies the suppression of the study because economist Carlin (a 35-year veteran of the agency who also holds a B.S. in physics) “is an individual who is not a scientist.” Neither is Al Gore. Nor is environmental czar Carol Browner. Nor is cap-and-trade shepherd Nancy Pelosi. Carlin’s analysis incorporated peer-reviewed studies and, as he informed his colleagues, “significant new research” related to the proposed endangerment finding. According to those who have seen his study, it spotlights EPA’s reliance on out-of-date research, uncritical recycling of United Nations data, and omission of new developments, including a continued decline in global temperatures and a new consensus that future hurricane behavior won’t be different than in the past.
But the message from his superiors was clear: La-la-la, we can’t hear you.
In April, President Obama declared that “the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over.” Another day, another broken promise.
Philip Klein has more on the EPA bureaucrats expanding their power under the guise of saving the planet:
Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, made these intentions clear in her opening memo to employees in January 2009. “EPA will stand ready to help Congress craft strong, science-based climate legislation that fulfills the vision of the President,” she wrote, adding, “As Congress does its work, we will move ahead to comply with the Supreme Court’s decision recognizing EPA’s obligation to address climate change under the Clean Air Act.”
The Supreme Court decision Jackson referred to is Massachusetts v. EPA. Decided in 2007, the Court ruled that, pending a finding of “endangerment,” the EPA was required to regulate greenhouse gases in new vehicles. Obama appointed the lead attorney for the plaintiffs in the suit, Lisa Heinzerling, to be senior policy counsel on climate change at the EPA, a position that does not require confirmation. In her speeches and academic writings, Heinzerling has advocated an unabashedly activist role for the federal government in regulating carbon emissions….
Heinzerling has gone so far as to argue that since global warming kills people, a failure to address it is tantamount to somebody not acting on prior knowledge that a homicide is going to take place.
“Knowledge that death and suffering will result from our actions leads uncontroversially to a moral obligation to change our behavior,” Heinzerling wrote in a 2008 article for the Georgetown Law Journal. “In the United States, knowing killing is condemned in the criminal laws of all 50 states, in modern regulatory laws at the federal level, and in civil jury awards in tort cases. These laws embody a moral commitment against knowing killing that, in traditional criminal contexts, is uncontroversial. It should be no more controversial when it occurs on a global scale.”
Jackson is set to speak in Copenhagen.
I call to your attention GOP Sen. Jim Inhofe’s warning when the EPA took its first steps on this finding:
Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said today that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed endangerment finding will unleash a torrent of regulations that will destroy jobs, harm consumers, and extend the agency’s reach into every corner of American life. Despite enormous expense and hardship for the American economy, these regulations will have virtually no effect on climate change.
“Today’s action by the EPA is the beginning of a regulatory barrage that will destroy jobs, raise energy prices for consumers, and undermine America’s global competitiveness,” Senator Inhofe said. “It now appears EPA’s regulatory reach will find its way into schools, hospitals, assisted living facilities, and just about any activity that meets minimum thresholds in the Clean Air Act. Rep. John Dingell was right: the endangerment finding will produce a ‘glorious mess.’
“It’s worth noting that the solution to this ‘glorious mess’ is not for Congress to pass cap-and-trade legislation, which replaces one very bad approach with another. Congress should pass a simple, narrowly-targeted bill that stops EPA in its tracks.”
Endangering Farmers, the Elderly, and Construction Workers: Once EPA makes a finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare under the Clean Air Act, who, specifically, would be affected? As EPA’s Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) makes clear, an endangerment finding would lead to regulations covering nearly every facet of the American economy. In reading through comments filed in the regulatory docket, one is struck by how broadly the Clean Air Act would apply once an endangerment finding is made-especially to sources that have hitherto never come under the ambit of the Act. EPA received thousands of public comments from various industries and groups that expressed concern and outright opposition-on issues of cost, competitiveness, jobs, and administrative complexity-to greenhouse gas regulation under the CAA.
AN “HISTORIC” DAY: EPA’s finding is indeed historic news, for the simple fact that it will enlarge EPA’s regulatory reach to an unprecedented degree, extending it into every corner of the US economy, causing enormous economic damage. According to Peter Glaser, a national legal expert on the Clean Air Act, an endangerment finding will lead to new EPA regulations covering virtually everything, including “office buildings, apartment buildings, warehouse and storage buildings, educational buildings, health care buildings such as hospitals and assisted living facilities, hotels, restaurants, religious worship buildings, public assembly buildings, supermarkets, retail malls, agricultural facilities…and many others.” An array of new development projects could be delayed, perhaps for several years, causing “an economic train wreck.” This conclusion was supported recently by the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis, which found that EPA’s new carbon regulations would destroy over 800,000 jobs and result in a cumulative GDP loss of $7 trillion by 2029.
Risky Legal Schemes: “…hospitals, schools, farms, commercial buildings, and a host of other small sources emit more than 250 tons per year of CO2-a limit expressly mentioned in the statute-they will be required, once an endangerment finding is made and CO2 becomes a regulated pollutant, to obtain costly, burdensome pre-construction permits for their activities…Further, Glaser notes that “the statutory language is mandatory and does not leave any room for EPA to exercise discretion or create exceptions.” In short, unless Congress exempts them, there’s no way out for schools, assisted living facilities, and thousands upon thousands of small businesses.”
I declare the Obama eco-appartchiks a public danger whose regulatory emissions must be contained.
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Side note: My views on the Obama green power grab and the global warming mob have been clear and unchanged from day one. Some folks have asked about the ad that is appearing on the site today. I obviously do not agree with the advertiser’s support for the Copenhagen treaty.
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Timing of such a declaration? Painfully calculated & obvious.. Go Go Climate-gate anti-venom!
Damn the evidence of fraud! We must drive the final nail in the coffin of the economy now!
Apparently it’s going to be war against us carbon life forms.
Alas, this is what happens when lunatics run the government
Insanity is the rule of the day in this Bizarro-World federal government. We have got to shut down this train wreck before they kill us all. Life under the boot of these people is looking more and more like East Germany. God help us.
I would like to point out that most medicines are poisons. So is chocolate. Let’s ban them all.
Let’s see. The global warming “science” is currently, at a minimum, “in doubt”. Carbon’s negative influence on the climate is highly doubtful. The AGW crowd is thoroughly dis-credited. So, by all means let’s declare carbon a menace and regulate it.
Why, it almost seems as if the government is motivated by something other than science!
Ummm, can they prove it? I say it’s bunk, the ‘Al Gore blanket’ around the equator, the missing greenhouse signature, is nowhere to be found.
Remember with DDT, the EPA finding in 1972 was based on nothing, rescinded in 2006 by WHO, but in the meantime, 30-40 million African children died of malaria,
Since this ruling means that the bureaucrats no longer need Congress to pass a bill, they can start regulating businesses as soon as the declaration is made. Let’s see how long it takes for those American companies who have not yet moved operations to China to howl and join the stampede out of America.
Cripes, How is Photosynthesis and the Carbon Cycle going to be explained in the classroom now? Plants take in a poisonous gas and convert it to a nice one? I am so sick of this.
Another consideration: as Congress refines the regulation on the trading of commodities, are carbon credits (crony companies) going to get exempted as a “special (politically correct) class” of derivative security?
The price for this should be Browner’s political head on a platter. The cumulative response to this should be “go to h@11″ mass civil disobedience. This is so over the line a full blown back lash is warranted.
MUST. STOP. BREATHING. OUT…..
A well choreographed effort to shove this damaging garbage off on the world’s citizens. One could assemble an excellent “Enemies List” from the material on display today, some you might not have suspected. Obama’s crew leading the attack, Gore and GE set to collect the spoils, and a host of fellow conspirators helping “put one over” on everybody on the planet. They have a lot invested in this scam, so don’t expect them to surrender easily!
As the trucking industry goes…so goes the nation.
I just heard on the radio news that gore is meeting with this bho sometime today. MY gosh this is horrible! I wonder how much money and our freedom this bho will give away? Jobs will be a thing of the past if this can’t be stopped.
L
Good let them sit on the railroad tracks.
Publicly funded science is clearly compromised and has become a propaganda mechanism for hard-line redistributionists. The clearly political nature of this publicly funded “science” is truly terrifying and must be exposed at every opportunity.
Like Islamo Fascism, secular progressives don’t need marching orders (although there may be a real conspiracy here) to achieve their desires for so-called social justice. The most distressing thing is that Science itself has been corrupted through the misguided political zeal of its disciples. I suppose it is not a surprise that science and academia were drafted into the progressive army, what is a sad surprise is that the transition came without any debate or protest.
DO NOT ALLOW THE EPA TO BULLY CONGRESS INTO ANY CAP-N-TAX ACTION!
This is the last ditch attempt by the EPA to bully congress into doing something they CANNOT defend in a courtroom!
Do not believe for one minute that this EPA ruling is final in any way. This ruling can, and will, be challenged in court. The global warming alarmists are trying to ELIMINATE DEBATE by pushing congress into pre-emptive unilateral action.
As MM mentions above:
This can be challenged in court, a congressional action cannot be!
This action from the EPA is nothing new, they have done alot of harm in my area of NC already. Everything from localized flooding as the EPA deems a species in the area can not be endangerd and to hell with human assets, to fires that have burned down homes as under the clean air act people even in rural areas can not burn yard waste without a federal perment. But hey what do you expect of a federal orginization with Druids in its numbers?
But this raises some questions, it clearly shows the Obama adminstration WILL bypass congress for its agenda, or even offer senators ambassador positions for votes when they are voted out.
So in effect if this is so deadly could not the president call for martial law? And in anycase does this not show how limited and even pointless the powers of congress are useless?
Also if factories, auto’s, power plants, oil, and the military are on the list, what of living beings who produce C02? It may even be used to limit fuel sales and travel among private citizens, and for instance could this be used to enforce a one child policy on the American people? Which even now China see’s it as a mistake and is easing restrictions with talk of doing away with it among the communist party. After all the Chinese have became the worlds top food producer, and exporter. They even are allowing various religions, given the US trend I question reality to an extent now.
But this is a worrying developement, some may say if this passes its the last straw, but is it really? And even if so in my view the Obama administration would have no problem bringing in “UN” forces to enforce this action as Loyalty of Federal forces are questionable in such an event. What can stop this madness when our elected officals are bribed or can be bypassed by unconstitutional means.
Would that our alleged “representatives” in Congress and the White House would be role models in this activity….
This Administration is soooo history. They can’t even handle the guest list at a party. They screw up everything they touch. They are arrogant, wreckless and insufferable. Good riddance in 2012.
The Obama administration is doing more damage to the country than the Japanese dreamed possible 68 years ago.
Oxygen in high concentrations is quite toxic. Should we ban it as well?
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How about just rationing all energy sources to 1776 standards? One cord (4 ft. x 4 ft. x 8 ft.) pile of wood per family per year? Must be burned in a zero emission Franklin Stove–no chimney allowed!
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One horse per family–graze it on your weed filled yard. With approved “recycling” bag tied over it’s rear end. Compost the p**p and use it in your cornfield.
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This wacko stuff should really help out our economy as it “creates” millions of new “green” jobs for all. More farmers, p**per scoopers keeping the streets clean, more men shearing sheep and women spinning wool into thread and making clothing. More people making candles. It’s sure a long way to the 2010 and 2012 elections.
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John Bibb
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Is anyone else getting a full screen Siemens ad coming up behind this page?
Last year some woman drank water until she died. Ban the terrible H2O!!! (If we use chemical names, we can get anything banned.)
I cannot remember but – anyone remember when leaded gas was outlawed and unleaded gas with the magic Catalytic Converter would just emit CO2 and Water Vapor? And all the pollution would be gone forever. Now who was the Agency that decided Leaded Gas was bad and it should be banned?
purealchemy said:
I am and cannot figure how to get rid of it.
Good point, the folks who claim to protect nature are not taking into consideration that trees need CO2 to live. I think they’ve got something against the way God designed things and are intent on punishing hardworking clingers to the Bible by taxing the frick out of us. That’ll teach us to accept God’s design for the planet…
FIFY
I may sign on after all those screaming about the need for cap and trade and other regulatory nonsense do the right thing…end their miserable greenhouse gas-producing lives as a statement that humans are causing the problem. Then we will measure the effects over the next few years to determine if their deaths did anything to reduce the global warming.
STOP BREATHING!!!
You nasty poluters are expelling the toxic polutant CO2 with every breath!!!
STOP BREATHING!!!!
Attention Obama:
I’m emitting CO2 in the same household as my children, who are also emitting CO2 as I type this.
Save us from our own breath!
OK, they will now Tax the very AIR we Breathe…
Can you imagine the Founding Fathers reaction to that statement?
Even George was only taxing Tea…
“Throw them out in the street!”
Once upon a time, that was the vilest thing you could do to a person. In the horse-and-buggy driven culture of 99% of human history, ALL refuse, human and animal, was tossed out “in the street”. Horses dropped their spoor willy-nilly everywhere, and when it rained… well, you can just imagine the mess! No one wandered around with a pooper-scooper cleaning up, except perhaps in a city park or central square, which was often used as a meeting place. The stench of cities before the advent of indoor plumbing must have truly been something to experience… AND probably laced with far more CO2 than what’s currently in the atmosphere today.
Globalization-Fascists… communism writ large. A sad commentary on human affairs that we’ve come to this.
I feed the plants with my breath!
I help eliminate CO2-producing and plant-eating mammals by eating as much meat as possible!
I’m doing my part!
As we clearly saw in the last election, there are millions upon millions of ignorant, non-thinking, non-caring sheep in this country. Many of them in leadership positions in the science community and especially in education.
I mean seriously. It doesn’t take significant brain power to deduce that Co2, a necessity for life on this planet is NOT an endangerment to that same life!
If anyone can figure out how to get rid of it PLEASE TELL US! It is making me crazy!
54 degrees this morning in Pearl City (HI). Global warming, my Okole.
I think companies like Siemens are basically forced to “support” the warmist agenda if they hope to get any government grants or business, even if they themselves don’t believe it. Of course, most major companies aren’t run by entrepreneurs anymore, they’re run by Harvard business school (and other bib B-schools) grads, and we all know what ideologies those schools teach.
Yeah, and minus 8 with the wind and snow in Colorado Springs makes for a blustery winter day.
Except, wait, it’s not winter yet…
Reminds me of the Penn & Teller episode on ShowTime. They got a bunch of people on the show to sign petitions banning Dihydrogen Monoxide…..
It shows that ignorant people can get whipped into a frenzy by someone with an agenda (or someone trying to make a point).
BTW….
wikipedia calls it the “dihydrogen monoxide hoax…..
How can it be a “hoax” if everything they are saying about the “bad effects and uses” of H2O is true??
(yes, I already know…..I’m stating the obvious)
That’s the name I was trying to remember! Thanks!
You’re right, of course. Anything can probably be made to sound bad, and like I tell everyone when I drink a Diet Coke: You’ve gotta die of something. (They say the Aspartame will give me brain tumors. Oh well, the suger in regular coke doesn’t mix with my insulin too well….)
When will they begin their war on dihydrogen monoxide? I bet a million dollars over half of congress would support such a move.
I found the ad on the page today kinda odd.. Then I saw Michelle’s update about it. I kinda chuckle every time I see those wind turbines because most of the time I see those around in California, they AREN’T turning lol…
stupid is as stupid does! these wackos have forced a massively painful reorganization of the u.s. when the next president and congress arrive. close the epa, close the dept of education, close the dept of rdundancy dept. 17% gubmint employees out of work after the change. sounds fair to me.
I vote that all of the folks who are demanding that we reduce CO2 emissions by 50% should reduce the time they breathe by 50%. Therefore, they can only breathe 12 hours a day.
There was a radio show personality a few years ago who was petitioning to “end women’s suffrage” and had no problem getting women to sign it. “How long must we tolerate women’s suffrage!!!”
Be careful what you sign.
As many of us have already said: The United States government is the greatest and most imminent threat to America’s survival.
If this passes you can bet on two things to come next.
1. The dems will pass the per mile tax on your vehicle. They have been trying.
2. The dems will pass a respiration tax per individual. They will finally find a way to tax us for breathing.
Dems love to tax us. Too bad liberals and dems cannot figure that out!
And tax us for all the breathers we reproduce, but we can get free abortions to help with that problem.
Not hard. Just take average respiration rates and tax that. An appeal can be filed if your average breath is lower, signed by a doctor…a government doctor, of course. With cap and trade running the industries, and Obamacare running healthcare, what new “crisis” or “enemy” will come out of the woodwork to be “controlled” by congress? The old totalitarian con game.
I can’t wait for their “let’s pretend” world to come crashing down when the “real world” finally has had enough!!!
Help, I can’t breathe. I mean I can but I shouldn’t.
Hmmm, so millions of cat equipped cars are emitting CO2. Nice.
It is worse than that: they “oxygenated” the fuel by adding MTBE, with the blessings of the EPA, which, as it turned out, is carcinogenic, and mixes nicely with water. Leaking fuel tanks, spills etc. were found to be fouling drinking water sources. It is detectable by taste in miniscule amounts.
POOF! Now we use ethanol, which essentially burns food for fuel, and greatly decreases the efficiency of gasoline fueled engines.
Okay, this is what is going on today.
In other words, vote for Cap and Trade or we are going to blow your brains out. You cannot win.
Watch this video carefully (think Enron and Ken Lay) and judge for yourselves. this is the hammer I was expecting.
They want Cap and Trade?
Give them Tar and Feathers!
They want Obamacare?
Give them Tar and Feathers!
They want Socialism?
Give them Tar and Feathers!
Gee big surprise one of those so called “scientists” for the global warming talks says population is an issue that needs to be adressed, and an American at that, I can bet I know his solution. Its these Druids we need to fear not the islamists, At least you CAN see and fight the sword coming down on you, the pen of the law maker is not easy to put down minus full and bloody revolt.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/14/magazines/fortune/globalwarming.fortune/index.htm not always I use CNN as a source anymore but its a good read. Put that man on TV I say.
I guess that’s as close as we’ll come to seeing Michelle say something like:
They are at war with us, and they will steal the elections in 2010 and 2012 unless we do everything we can NOW to clean up the elections process.
“Containment” is not enough.
We must honestly and thoroughly defeat them.
Failure is not an option.
Drill Here, Drill NOW!!
Its not just CO2
carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride
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The farm sector is about to take a huge hit as well. And, apparantly, dentists.
This means farts are now officaly polution. For some of us that has been true for years but not its a legal finding.
Although it’s been said many times, many ways…
Those who so desperately want to limit CO2 emissions should do so by voluntarily ceasing to exhale.
Somehow I think that is not too likely to happen for a while.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/bd4379a92ceceeac8525735900400c27/08d11a451131bca585257685005bf252!OpenDocument
The actualy finding is here.
Our federal government is infected with a socialist disease and I can cure it in two words – NATIONAL STRIKE.
It’s we the people versus the beltway elitists and we HAVE TO win or we may end up losing Liberty itself.
Anyone want to take bets on how quickly our already diminished manufacturing sector completely disappears once the new regulations appear?
You think unemployment is bad now!?!?
“changing patterns of ecosystems and wildlife” ??? What – Deer are going to Vegas now? Geese now fly North for the Winter? Sea Turtles are now nesting in the Hudson Bay?
NATIONAL STRIKE!! You bet cha – One day of no spending no working and unpaid time off – Just one day. No Taxes anywhere.
I wish everyone would just stop talking about how dangerous CO2 is. I think my grandchildren are breathing that stuff into their little lungs. And I just flew back from Denver and saw some global warming from the plane. I think I also saw the Al Gore blimp float by.
Algore’s body heat is adding to global warming! I urge him to become ‘temperature neutral’ with his environment!
I would also ask the EPA to regulate H2O vapor as a pollutant as this is also a greenhouse gas and, according to there logic, should be regulated. H20 also represents a larger percentage of the atmosphere than CO2 (1 to 4% for H20 vs. 385 ppm for CO2). Let the chaos begin!
Need to know just how far along the Green agenda is legislatively at having their way with these “eco bills” here on the Hill and at the U.N. and what can we do or what groups can we support outside the call your Congress route. Is there time to nip this thing in the bud? Thanks the criminally uncritical complicity of the mainstream media, sadly most Americans haven’t a clue just how sweeping and deep into our wallets and lifestyles these green agenda proposals are. I rather see this bogus Free Health bill go through than the greens. Any info would be much appreciated.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Errah – Today, December 7th, 2009 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by socialist globalist forces of the Obama Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency. . . .
No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated perversion of science and law, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory. I believe that I interpret the will of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.
Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our economic interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our citizenry, with the unbounding determination of our people and peer reviewed science, we will gain the inevitable triumph — so help us God.
I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by the EPA on Monday, December 7th, 2009, a state of war has existed between the United States and the AGW Globalist Socialist Agenda about to convene in Copenhagen.”
Look at it this way. Any “greenie” still alive tomorrow is obviously a hypocrite, because they are still breathing.
And more than Al Qaeda did on September 11th, 2001. They are both attacking America to further their own agenda and for their own gain. I see no difference.
“We don’t base our decisions on the facts. The decision comes first, then the facts. You offer no cherries for picking, so stfu.”
Why does my screen look different today?
Yes – and IT’S DAMNED ANNOYING!
How does the CLEAN AIR act get contorted into AGW???
CLEAN air – not hocus pocus.
Next EPA mandate: STOP CONTINENTAL DRIFT
Next we will hear of the Soylent Green legislation.
Errah at least the Green Washing is by Siemens and not GE/NBC/MSNBC. Some more of those Green Jobs we’ve been promised. I would suspect the windfarm picture is actually in Europe since this is where all the windmill Green jobs come from. About the only thing American about the Obama Green Jobs windmill is the road and the concrete foundations. The rest is coming from Obama’s multinationals friends overseas.
Its getting time to go GALT!
I used to work for EPA and left along with a bunch of other researchers to get more money and freedom from the private sector. EPA today is not what it used to be. CDC isn’t what it used to be either. Every gov agency is drunk on power and control and congress wants every penny we make.
Today the EPA will go down in infamy. They created the 21st century Pearl Harbor. Funny they did it on the same day. American once again torpedoed.
I really think this is a good idea!
After all we are in one of the worst economy depressions the US has faced. What better way to completely distroy American business than to impliment new regulations to increase the cost of anything. All based on science that is fundamentally flawed and with an end result that is impossible to achieve.
But that goes along with the health care proposals that clearly increase the cost of employment thus assuring that business in reluctant to hire.
Then there is the effort to devalue the dollar and increase our debt to numbers that no one can calculate.
Yet all the Japs did was to drop a few bombs on a harbor in the middle of the Pacific. Something does not balance out as to who our enemies are and our friends.
From similar thread at WattsUpWithThat:
Proof that the EPA hates black people. Kanye, where are you?
To all the college students that elected Barack Obama, have fun moving back in with your parents because there are no jobs. Reap what you have sown, morons; I’ll be retired and you will be paying my bills. Ha!
Keep in mind who gets to make gazilions on the wealth distribution resulting from this “social justice”, those US corporations who moved their plants (and American jobs) overseas? I’m not sayin’. I’m just sayin’.
And for politicians who see their opportunities for big ticket graft dwindling in modern societies, this is manna from heaven.
I see now why NASA is in on this. we will all have to wear space suits and helmets. Self contained breathing apparati.
There is no more rationale, no more truth. The only truth left is the truth within yourself. Chaos and corruption have taken over every walk of life. I desire the days of truth and will insist on the truth for the future. When will good come back to this country? Will we have another civil war to root out the liars?
1,200 Limos + 140 Private Jets = Carbonhagen
Obama, most world leader, & half of our Congress are officially, Carbon Whores..
Paracelsus weeps
Campaign promise kept. No more coal plants.
All these things – Cap & Tax, healthcare, etc. are designed with two goals in mind. First, they’ll shove them down our throats and we’ll grumble a little bit, but ultimately accept them, and they’ll use them to achieve total control of our lives.
Secondly, if we don’t accept them, and actually fight back against this treason, the administration will declare martial law – sometime before the 2010 election. They’ll bring in UN forces to suppress any uprisings. There will be no 2010 or 2012 elections.
Obama will be the last president of the USA, and the first emperor of the USSA.
Toysurgeon, It “Galt’s” me too!
The farm sector CANNOT take any major hit from this. They can simply sue the EPA to prove that their ENTIRE system is NOT carbon neutral. Of course, by definition, it is! Only a complete nutjob can pretend that farm animals can create any of these gasses from NOTHING! And that something they create them from is part of the entire system. Something called plants. Plants that would not grow if those same farm animals did not produce those gasses for them to live on!
This simply needs to be pushed into a courtroom for examination. Lies never withstand the light of day!
Now regarding those fluorocarbons, well, those lies have already been debunked. Apparently the EPA used the fraudulent work of the late 70′s and early 80′s. Somehow, the EPA has failed to even read the recent fluorocarbon reports from antarctica.
And also unclear in all of this is how the EPA can make any claim that anything they demand be rationed will make any actual difference? The scope of their control is limited, and their ability to enforce anything internationally is non-existant.