7/4/12, "The EPA wins, for science’s sake," Washington Post Editorial
"Now that the D.C. Circuit Court has slammed the legal challenge to the EPA’s regulation of greenhouse gases, the agency is clear to continue clamping down on emissions. Under the Clean Air Act, that means a command-and-control approach that will be expensive but won’t reduce emissions enough. Congress has only one reasonable option to avoid that far-from-optimal outcome: enacting a more effective and efficient policy such as a carbon tax or a cap-and-rebate program that complements or preempts the EPA’s regulation. Lawmakers have ignored the problem for far too long."...(last paragraph)
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Among comments to above Washington Post editorial:
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For the editors of the Post to lecture from a green soapbox is the height of hypocrisy."
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Ed. note: With its headline the WaPo seems to want people to believe something the court ruling did not intend. The ruling specifically stated it made no judgment about scientific evidence. So the decision was not made "for science's sake." One can only wonder why the WaPo refuses to accept the long known science that the US is no longer the big CO2 producer, US CO2 emissions have been plummeting since 2006 and are projected to continue doing so--without UN treaties, cap and trade, or carbon taxes. CO2 emissions from other countries have not decreased despite billions in cap and trade enriching fat cats and organized crime. Will the Post lose money if they get off the CO2 train? Are they invested in "carbon credits?"
US CO2 has plummeted but the Post says it's not "enough," and something more "expensive" is urgently needed. Have they forgotten the billions of US taxpayer dollars funneled yearly to 'climate' endeavors across 13 US federal agencies, billions of US tax dollars spent via the US military on green fuel projects, no-strings billions shipped to foreign countries, the UN, the UN IPCC, and countless laws and regulations already on the books. Either the Post is very uninformed or deliberately ignores available scientific facts.
The US economy shows no possibility of improvement for the foreseeable future, every 50 cent increase in gas prices takes $70 billion out of the economy, people are starving, out of work, in a depression,. There's nothing left to shut down. The only step left is mass suicide. I don't know what else to do make the Post happy. The WaPo has staked its reputation as a 'news' organization by backing catastrophic human-caused CO poisoning presently killing the planet, causing mass starvation, and wars.
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Reference:
Court ruling specifically states it did not examine scientific evidence:
6/27/12, "US appeals court upholds rules curbing greenhouse gases," Nature.com, Helen Thompson
"The 26 June ruling from a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, dismisses the complaints brought against the federal government by, among others, four states – Virginia, Texas, Nebraska, and North Dakota...."In the end, petitioners are asking us to re-weigh the scientific evidence before EPA and reach our own conclusion. This is not our role" said the panel of three judges in a sharply worded 82-page brief." Full Article at Nature.com.
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6/26/12, "The Incredible Shrinking Carbon Pollution Forecast - Part 2," switchboard.nrdc.org, Dan Lashof
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6/29/12, "US Carbon Output Forecasts Shrink Again," American Interest, Walter Russell Mead
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6/4/12, "Climate change stunner: USA leads world in CO2 cuts since 2006," Vancouver Observer, Saxifrage
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6/22/12, "U.S. cuts greenhouse gases despite do-nothing Congress," CNN, Steve Hargreaves
"Even factoring in a stronger economy, forecasters see greenhouse gas emissions continuing to fall."...
------------------------------------3/26/12, "Obama Requests $770 Million to Fight Global Warming Overseas," CNS News, Matt Cover
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5/28/11, "Gas tanks are draining family budgets," AP, USA Today
"Every 50-cent jump in the cost of gasoline takes $70 billion out of the U.S. economy over the course of a year, Hamilton says. That's about one half of one percent of gross domestic product."
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7/02/09, "The Great American Bubble Machine: How Goldman Sachs has Engineered Every Major Market Manipulation Since the Great Depression," Rolling Stone, by Matt Taibbi
- "A groundbreaking new commodities bubble,
- called cap-and-trade."...
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2/1/2011, "Austria Asks Sweden to Return Carbon Permits Worth $3.9 Million," Bloomberg, by Johan Carlstrom and Mathew Carr--------------------------------------
12/13/10, "‘Perverse’ CO2 Payments Send Flood of Money to China," by Mark Schapiro, Yale Environment 360
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11/23/11, "Europe's $287 billion carbon 'waste': UBS report," The Australian, by Sid Maher
"SWISS banking giant UBS says the European Union's emissions trading scheme has cost the continent's consumers $287 billion for "almost zero impact" on cutting carbon emissions."...EU CO2 trading provided "windfall profits" to participants paid for by "electricity customers.""
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4/23/12, "'I made a mistake': Gaia theory scientist James Lovelock admits he was 'alarmist' about the impact of climate change," UK Daily Mail, L. Warren
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7/16/10, "Carbon Trading Used as Money-Laundering Front," Jakarta Globe
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10/8/10, "Murder on the Carbon Express: Interpol Takes On Emissions Fraud," Mother Jones, M. Schapiro
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4/21/12, "Why [CO2] Emissions Are Declining in the U.S. But Not in Europe," by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, newgeography.com
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5/6/12, "US Leads EU in CO2 Reductions," Walter Russell Mead, American Interest
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6/20/12, "Fed Lowers 2012 Growth Forecast," Dow Jones
"Economic projections released by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday saw officials expecting weaker growth, higher unemployment and softer inflation over the next few years."
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4/14/11, "Biggest Drop in U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions," World Climate Report
"In 2009, greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. experienced their biggest drop since the U.S. Energy Information Administration began tracking them during the 1990-2009 timeframe....
In Figure 1 we show the history of carbon dioxide emissions—primary among the greenhouse gases—in the U.S. from 1990-2009. We also include the emissions history from China, for comparative purposes.
Figure 1. Annual carbon dioxide emissions from the United States (blue) and China (red), 1990-2009 (data source, EIA)...."
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5/25/12, "US Global Change Research Plan" 2012-2021, globalchange.gov
"As mandated by Congress, the USGCRP develops a new Strategic Plan every ten years that must “provide for [the] development and coordination of a comprehensive and integrated United States Research Program which will assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change.” The Plan will be implemented through the next decade by the collective efforts of 13 U.S. government agencies that collaboratively help the Nation better understand global change and its impacts."...
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7/3/12, "$26 per gallon green fuel costs for U.S. Navy are the new $400 toilet seats," Examiner.com, K. Schortgen
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11/21/11, "Analysis: U.S. government a tenuous beachhead for biofuel firms," Reuters
"The U.S. military has emerged as a key ally for fledgling producers of non-food-based biofuels, who find themselves threatened by looming budget cuts and growing political hostility to renewable energy funding.
A U.S. Navy plan to cut its fossil fuel use in half by 2020 is only part of the story.
Efforts to throw biofuels a lifeline now run across three U.S. government agencies, as the defense, energy and agriculture departments pitch in on
a $510 million package.
The money is being corralled under a law dating back to the Korean War that gives a leg up to sectors deemed necessary for defense. This support is cherished for being more predictable than the private sector, or even other parts of government."...
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3/15/12, "Foreclosures rise in 26 states," AP, via CSM
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7/5/12, "EDITORIAL: Court decrees global warming, Judge stipulates what science has failed to prove," Washington Times Editorial
via Tom Nelson
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