Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs

White House officials last December sought to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from submitting a proposed rule that would limit greenhouse-gas emissions from cars. "Some [at the White House] thought that EPA had mistakenly concluded that climate change endangers the public," said EPA deputy administrator Jason Burnett, who recently left the agency. "It was no mistake."

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EPA chief Stephen L. Johnson is a sack of shit.

"Checkerboard of regulations" my ass - he specifically ignored the publics interest and health.

C-SPAN videos:

State Actions on Global Climate Change
Product ID: 199952-2
Format: Forum
Last Airing: 07/24/2007
Event Date: 07/22/2007
Length: 1 hour, 34 minutes
Location: Acme, Michigan

"Mr. Johnson and climate scientists spoke to the Natural Resources Committee about global climate change and public policy. They talked about possible gubernatorial policy tools to address global climate change, alternative energy resources, levels of fossil fuel consumption in the U.S., and potential economic benefits of innovation in fuel and energy technologies."

Ozone Standards

Product ID: 205451-1
Format: House Committee
Oversight and Government Reform
Last Airing: 06/03/2008
Event Date: 05/20/2008
Length: 3 hours, 12 minutes
Location: Washington, District of Columbia

"Witnesses testified at an oversight hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency. The hearing focused on the revised air quality standards for ozone issued by EPA on March 12, 2008, and how political considerations influenced the decisions. The standards disregard the advice of the EPA staff and Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee. Topics included the denial of California's efforts to reduce CO2 emissions from motor vehicles, the rejection of the EPA's proposed greenhouse gas rules, and the delay in the issuance of regulations to protect whales."

And in other shocking news, the sun rose in the east this morning.


I love it when one group of ass-hats gets in a scuffle with another group of ass-hats.

Tried to????

The White House has been censorig and doctoring science for seven years.

Gut feelings are more imorptant than science, especially where crony profit is concerned.

YEAH!

Imagine the surprise when those miserable Bible and Gun clutchers discover they can't eat "gunz" and or breathe their "bible"!

Imagine the surprise when those miserable Bible and Gun clutchers discover they can't eat "gunz" and or breathe their "bible"!

Hopefully they'll just eat their guns.

I'm no longer surprised by this shit, because this administration's been fucking America and the Constitution in the ass every day for the last 7 years.

Lets get rid of all co2 and let the trees die. Is that smart or what?

The earth has not gotten warmer this century.

Yeah Sniper, let's all not exhale, ever. Because that's definitely possible.

Wow, Sniper was the only righty with the 'nads to show up on this thread. Congrats to Sniper for having a pair!

Stupid EPA was probably going to complain about the radioactive fall-out from Bushbuddy Kim's nuclear test.

And Sniper may be brave, but once again, he's wrong.

The changes in hemispheric temperature over several centuries were related to possible influences or "forcing agents" through comparisons with the estimates of changes in the three most physically plausible external factors governing climate change over timechanges in the brightness of the Sun back in time as estimated by solar physicists, the documented history of explosive volcanic eruptions, and human-caused increases in greenhouse gas concentrations as represented through long-term records of carbon dioxide trapped in ancient ice cores and more recently recorded by humans. These comparisons sought to determine which of these three forcings of climate were most closely related, in a statistical sense, to the variations in hemispheric temperatures over time. The results of this analysis suggests that the significant temperature variations in past centuries likely have their origins in natural climate forcingvariations in the brightness of the Sun in particular. While these natural factors will no doubt continue to play a role in governing the natural climate variability that operates in the backdrop of human-induced changes in climate, the anomalous warmth of recent decades cannot be explained in terms of these natural factors. Instead, the recent warming shows a sharply emerging significant correlation with increasing greenhouse gases during the past couple of decades. In this sense, the human-enhanced greenhouse warming signal now appears to be detectable above the background of natural climate variability. The recent IPCC conclusion that the "fingerprint" of human activity is discernible in the most recent climate trends is consistent with independent studies that have compared model-predicted and observed trends during the 20th century.



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"epa! epa! epa "
Granpa Simpson

One group of bureaucrats fighting with another group of bureaucrats, over a rule that wouldn't have been enforced against an industry that wouldn't have followed it and a citizenry that doesn't want it. But as long as there's an open microphone and a journalist up against a deadline, there's a story in there somewhere.

Please. Is there any global warming theorist--ANYWHERE--who can't get published these days? Godalmighty. If we had all the trees back from the books and magazines printed up to warn us all of the mythical dangers of man-made climate change, the earth would be greener than ever. But they're complaining that the White House denied another no-name pseudo-scientist from laying down another set of rules on the rest of us he doesn't follow himself?

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