Global "warming" is a political SCAM!
Devil's Advocate
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EPA conveniently quashes inconvenient memo
On the day the U.S. House passed the first ever legislation to
comprehensively address climate change, CBS News released a story that
called the whole conceit behind the legislation into question.
Less than two weeks before the agency formally submitted its pro-
regulation recommendation to the White House, an EPA center director
quashed a 98-page report that warned against making hasty "decisions
based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of
the available data."
The report, written by EPA economist Alan Carlin, said the EPA was
making its recommendation based on research by outside, biased groups
and that the fundamental research being offered was more than three
years old. Carlin wrote that, contrary to what Al Gore and every other
global warming alarmist has been saying for the past few years, the
earth's temperature has been declining for the past 11 years (emphasis
mine).
Carlin also noted that predictions about Atlantic hurricane activity
have changed dramatically. While global warming demagogues once blamed
increased hurricane activity on a warmer Mother Earth, the consensus
prediction now calls for normal hurricane frequency and severity. While
Gore and his groupies frequently weep for Greenland melting, Carlin
wrote that new evidence shows it just ain't so.
Interestingly, Carlin points to the Great Recession as another reason to
step back, do some independent research and not rush headlong into a
potentially economically devastating public policy. With decreased
economic activity has come a decrease in carbon emissions as fewer
trucks, for instance, are hauling fewer goods to fewer consumers who are
driving fewer miles to the shopping mall.
Carlin was absolutely right - and brave - to raise such unorthodox (to
the greenies in power now anyway) views. And, of course, the
administration of this president, who so seriously said at his
inauguration that would return science to its rightful place and be the
most open ever, quashed - no, make that squashed, killed, obliterated -
Carlin's dissent.
His superior, Al McGartland, wrote in an e-mail to a staff researcher:
"The administrator and the administration has decided to move
forward... and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for
this decision."
That statement, and the subsequent shelving of Carlin's memo, makes this
statement by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson in January nothing less than
a lie:
"I will ensure EPA's efforts to address the environmental crises of
today are rooted in three fundamental values: science-based policies and
programs, adherence to the rule of law, and overwhelming transparency."
The EPA's recommendation to move the climate change legislation - aka
cap and trade - forward was not based on all available science, only
that which conveniently and incompletely supported the position of the
global warming crowd. And, by the actions of McGartland and others,
Jackson's claims of transparency are laughable, as are President Barack
Obama's.
The mania of the global warming crowd and the lengths they'll go to as
evidenced by the EPA's actions with Carlin's memo are downright
chilling. The Senate takes up cap and trade soon. Pray cooler heads
prevail.
Lamont Cranston
Sure it is. Explain this:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2008/Fig1.gif
Roger Dewhurst
> Devil's Advocate wrote:
>
> Sure it is. Explain this: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2008/Fig1.gif
The temperature increased from 1900 to 1940 and again from 1980 to 2000
at much the same rate.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide was erratic in the first half of the century
but increased steadily from then on. It is still increasing but the
temperature is falling. Quibble about the last bit if you like but
correlation does not mean causation. A better case can be made for
rising temperature causing an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Warm your bottle of fizzy drink and see what happens.
R