Hat tip to big brother Tom.
The National Center for Environmental Economics had a dissenting view on where the Obama Administration wanted to go with its global warming agenda. The NCEE is a government organization WITHIN the Environmental Protection Agency.
Read the Executive Summary of this document, at least. It is the NCEE's dissent on the EPA's Technical Support Document.
Then read these two emails.
Then decide for yourself if science is being politicized.
Yes, yes. I know there will be others who will say that global warming deniers are Druids at best and Nazis at worst...but there is a growing and important body of knowledge that disputes MANY of the fundamental assertions for action on global warming. One reader likes to point out that we conducted a pre-emptive war of choice under less threatening circumstances with less conclusive data--neither of which is true. The data available and the level of consistency across the intelligence community before going into Iraq--both home and abroad--far outstrips the vocal and coherent dissent from across the scientific community as to the specifics of global climate change.
And given that NOTHING climate change could bring will happen quickly, man's inate ability to adapt (not to mention the considerable new bits of the earth that will be revealed as habitable) renders the disputed long term Apocalyptic impact of global climate change as little more than a mobility problem.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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If this were 2 years ago, hell hath no fury like a Democrat scorned. The thin veneer of change has being slowly unwoven.
Too often these days our immediate response is to crank up the outrage meter, but this is truly...outrageous.
Wouldn't it be nice if some reporter with dreams of a Pulitzer started investigating this.
I agree this is ridiculous. And I do not think cap and trade is the answer. Unfortunately (much like the Iraq) thing, it seems our politicians feel everything must be sensationalized in order to sell it to the public. However, I also get the sense that some on the right are taking an extra step in their logic here: cap and trade = crap therefore protecting environment = bad.
I get a sense of civic schizophrenia here. On one hand we deplore hyperconsumerism that has a golf cart bought on credit in every garage, a Bratz doll in every mini Britney wannabe grasping hand. On the other hand we certainly don't want to do anything to keep the companies we work for from turning profits. We love to get out in nature on the weekend, but certainly don't want to spend a tax dollar protecting it. For God's sake man, even dogs don't crap in their own bed. We are not going to protect our own environment? We can't do better? We should be out in front on such a noble cause. Remember that whole God and Country thing? Well God is nature. Where are all the right wing alternatives? Or when the thing dies in the Senate are we going to celebrate by pouring old motor oil into the gutter marked "drains into the ocean" with a picture of Flipper?
[and I still think Iraq was a travesty]
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