"Massachusetts vs. EPA—Timeline, Legal Questions, and Case Details," sierraclub.org, Allowing the EPA to regulate CO2
"On April 2, 2007, in a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Sierra Club, 12 states, 3 cities, and other petitioners by agreeing that carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants can be regulated under the Clean Air Act....
p. 2, "Filing as “amici” for the petitioners:
Fourteen prominent climate scientists, two electric power companies (Entergy and Calpine), four former EPA administrators, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, six states (Arizona, Delaware, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, and Wisconsin), the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the National Council of Churches, Aspen Ski Company, North Coast Rivers Alliance, National Wildlife Federation, Alaska Natives, and ocean and coastal groups....
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Massachusetts, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine,
New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and
Washington, the District of Columbia, American Samoa Government, New
York City, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, Center for
Biological Diversity, Center for Food Safety, Conservation Law
Foundation, Environmental Advocates, Environmental Defense,
Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, International Center for Technology
Assessment, National Environmental Trust, Natural Resources Defense
Council, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, and U.S. Public
Interest Research Group."...
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Big money was made on the 2007 Supreme Court decision, for example petitioner Entergy's stock peaked on news of the ruling. Entergy stock chart 2003-2013, Marketwatch:
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5/16/13, "John Dernbach, a law professor at Widener University in Pennsylvania...represented climate scientists in the 2007 case." parag. 7. ("Could Supreme Court stall climate change regulations?" Reuters)
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Who paid legal fees for the 14 climate scientists who stood to gain financially and professionally from the ruling?
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received a $2.8 billion grant from the 2009 Obama stimulus. .
Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: Hurricanes make the list in ...
6/30/13, “A Climate Demagogue,” Boston Herald Editorial
“Even those who believe that emissions of carbon dioxide are causing unacceptable warming of the earth–and frankly the evidence for that is thus far less than convincing--should be ashamed of President Obama’s demagogic arguments for action.
The fact sheet on the president’s speech this week said carbon “pollution” is “contributing to higher rates of asthma attacks and more frequent and severe floods and heat waves.” His measures “would protect the health of our children.”
“For the children” usually means the orator has run out of good arguments.
It’s the first assertion we’ve seen that carbon dioxide produces or worsens asthma. The Environmental Protection Agency has never asserted that. The only way a child could be hurt by carbon dioxide, essential for plant life and produced in human breath, would be by being hit in the head with a block of dry ice—frozen carbon dioxide.
In a second badly misnamed “fact sheet”--this one specifically for Massachusetts–the White House seeks to blame “climate change” for tropical storm Irene, emergency room visits due to heat stress in 2009 (it did not include “facts” on whether that was up or down from previous years or even since 2009) and 2380 cases of Lyme disease.
Yes, to hear the Obama administration tell it, we are indeed simply doomed.
However most international and national agencies have found no increase in storm activity. Warming? The alarmist British Meteorological Office finds no warming since 1998 while the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere has increased by 7.4%.
Doomsday scenarios depend largely on unreliable computer models whose builders have no explanation for such conflicts….
Without believable computer models, it’s senseless to follow Obama down the road of economic self-mutilation.”
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Signers to the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement
Hurricanes make the list in Obama's weekly address: "more extreme droughts, floods, wildfires, and hurricanes" http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/29/weekly-address-confronting-growing-threat-climate-change …Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: Fact: It has been 2,811 days ...
Fact: It has been 2,811 days since the US was last hit by a Cat3+ hurricane, the longest such period since at least 1900.Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: Fact: On climate time scales ...
Fact: On climate time scales there's been no increase in US hurricanes, normalized US hurricane damage or tropical cyclone landfalls globallyTwitter / RogerPielkeJr: What does it say about the ...
What does it say about the climate science community that the Prez says something easily shown false and no one says a peep? #climatesilence. via Tom NelsonTwitter / RogerPielkeJr: IPCC: "Observations to date ...
IPCC: "Observations to date provide no conclusive and general proof as to how climate change affects flood behavior" http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2013/01/extreme-misrepresentation-usgcrp-and.html …======================================
6/30/13, “A Climate Demagogue,” Boston Herald Editorial
“Even those who believe that emissions of carbon dioxide are causing unacceptable warming of the earth–and frankly the evidence for that is thus far less than convincing--should be ashamed of President Obama’s demagogic arguments for action.
The fact sheet on the president’s speech this week said carbon “pollution” is “contributing to higher rates of asthma attacks and more frequent and severe floods and heat waves.” His measures “would protect the health of our children.”
“For the children” usually means the orator has run out of good arguments.
It’s the first assertion we’ve seen that carbon dioxide produces or worsens asthma. The Environmental Protection Agency has never asserted that. The only way a child could be hurt by carbon dioxide, essential for plant life and produced in human breath, would be by being hit in the head with a block of dry ice—frozen carbon dioxide.
In a second badly misnamed “fact sheet”--this one specifically for Massachusetts–the White House seeks to blame “climate change” for tropical storm Irene, emergency room visits due to heat stress in 2009 (it did not include “facts” on whether that was up or down from previous years or even since 2009) and 2380 cases of Lyme disease.
Yes, to hear the Obama administration tell it, we are indeed simply doomed.
However most international and national agencies have found no increase in storm activity. Warming? The alarmist British Meteorological Office finds no warming since 1998 while the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere has increased by 7.4%.
Doomsday scenarios depend largely on unreliable computer models whose builders have no explanation for such conflicts….
Without believable computer models, it’s senseless to follow Obama down the road of economic self-mutilation.”
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Signers to the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement
The "US Conference of Mayors" was among petitioners in the 2007 Supreme Court Case, p.2.
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