Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/09/2009 10:12:00 AM PST by UAConservative
COPENHAGEN – The top U.S. environmental official told a divided U.N. climate conference Wednesday that the Obama administration's moves to "make up for lost time" and cut greenhouse gases would complement congressional action and wasn't intended to bypass recalcitrant lawmakers.
The comments by Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson came on the same day that the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu — which would be among the first victims of rising seas — was rebuffed by the conference in an attempt to demand strong action against major polluting countries.
Jackson suggested the EPA's decision Monday that greenhouse gases should be regulated would be a dual path of action by the Obama administration and Congress.
"This is not an either/or moment. This is a both/and moment," she told more than 100 people who packed a U.S. meeting room in the conference center.
The EPA determined Monday that scientific evidence clearly shows they are endangering the health of Americans, and that the pollutants — mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels — should be regulated under the Clean Air Act. That means the EPA could regulate those gases without the approval of Congress.
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Large waste water treatment plants would probably fall into this category, and some feedlot operators for swine and cattle and chickens might cross the threshold as well. But if not in the first round of regulation most certainly they are in the cross hairs for the second round.
There’s a cheaper way to solve this “problem”. Just tell the researchers they won’t recieve a penny of government money until their funny little computer programs make funny little charts showing the temperature declining.
we are so screwed.
we wont be able to vote these a@@holes out fast enough. and you can be certain they will leave such a tangled mess of red tape behind them, it would take years to clear it all.
it was a nice country while it lasted. remember to take photos to show your kids what it was like.
Yes, the politicians, bureaucrats and climate frauds.
Maybe they will all freeze to death.
COP15 Proposals – summary from AEP simulcast from Copenhagen today
(Americans for Prosperity) http://www.americansforprosperity.org/national-site
Simulcast at http://streaming.videofilesinc.com/events/afp/index.html
COP15 Proposals:
- Western Economic Tax of 2% of GDP
- Removal of IP/Patent Rights for New Technologies in Clean Technology
- US Constitution is “only paper”, so “Copenhagen Treaty” as been renamed an “ Executive Agreement” so Obama can sign it shortly
- Words “worldwide government” has been dropped from the “Treaty”; but there are 700 new global gov entities created
- The “Treaty” contains extensive, significant details (currently not being reported) on establishment of worldwide government
- Extensive political agenda of the COP15 meeting is being largely unreported
EPA Endangerment Finding:
- Covers 100% of McDonalds (any fast food restaurant)
- Covers all Mining, Cement Plants, PetroChemical Plants, Refineries, Trains, Shipping, Long-haul Trucks
- Covers all Manufacturing sites of any size
- Covers all Buildings in the US of moderate size and larger which use natural gas or heating oil for winter heat
- Unions are advocating “global welfare” for the millions who will become unemployed “during this necessary economic transition period”
- Estimates range from $1500 - $3000 per year in increased energy costs for the average family of 4 in the US
Rick Perry:
- 400,000 jobs will be lost in Texas from EPA finding
- Electricity costs will rise $1400 per family, on average
Steve (WSJ):
- In the 1970’s scientists & US gov provided extensive data that Global Cooling was occurring
- Global climate models cannot explain cooling over the last 10 years
- Only FOX News & WSJ are covering the ClimateGate Scandal
- Believes that defeat of EPA momentum on new rules and Healthcare bills can only be accomplished in the next 6-8 weeks; after that it will be difficult to reverse – may take a long time (see link to EPA “Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice (IWG)“ http://www.epa.gov/compliance/environmentaljustice/interagency/ )
Congress is a bunch of spineless boobs.
Their power was usurped and they got kicked in the teeth.
Now the boobs are whimpering in the corner and hiding from the monster federal government they no longer control.
Democrat or Republican, they should all be up at arms about this shear coup of their power.
The fact that they aren’t is frightening.
Yet more Bush Derangement Syndrome?
The U.S. Senate REJECTED the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 by a vote of 95-0.
And the president at the time was Clinton!
Sigh...
I thought epa was an advisory type thing.
Didn’t know they could make law.
Congress can now be relieved of thier duties, yes?
Now that we are in global cooling due to the lack of sunspot activity, that we will start feeling the affects of that in the next few years, will She and the EPA get all the credit or will administration trash her and the agency and take all the credit for themselves?
No it wasn't!! Congress created the EPA and gave them regulatory power so that they could be relieved of actually doing what we pay them for and MAKING LAW!!!!
This was an absolutely well-planned end-around by Bammy because Congress wasn't passing his tyrannical, marxist agenda quickly enough.
Slaves to the EPA
sung to the tune of BORN IN THE USA
Born down in a normal town
The first crime I did was when I exhaled air
My parents criminal act was using heat too much
Till they spend half their life just paying up
Slaves to the EPA, We are owned by the EPA
I owe my life to the EPA, Owned by the EPA
My SUV is a little homegrown jam
So they put a golf cart in my hand
It was made in a foreign land
To pay back bill to the yellow man
Slaves to the EPA, We are owned by the EPA
I owe my life to the EPA, Owned by the EPA
Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man said we are closing see
Went down to see solar man
He said son, don’t you understand
I had a brother at EXXON
Drilling wells that last so long
They’re not there, plugged and gone
He had a pickup he loved in Houston
I got a picture of it in Gov hands now
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Gas fires out in the refinery
I’m ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain’t got nowhere to go
Slaves to the EPA, We are owned by the EPA
I owe my life to the EPA, Owned by the EPA
Owned by the EPA,
I’m a fool sucking victim of the EPA.
What Congress giveth it can take away, but they’re either too chicken, or in on the theft of our liberties by 0, to do so.
Name one government agency or program that Congress has ever disbanded or defunded. I'll wait . . . .
(There isn't one because EVERY government agency represents one more extension of their power over us!!!)
Name one government agency or program that Congress has ever disbanded or defunded. I'll wait . . . .
(There isn't one because EVERY government agency represents one more extension of their power over us!!!)
The law says how gases will be controled under the clean air act. EPA IS rewriting the law.
Congress got punked.
This is the first time a creation of congress gave them the bird salute.
This bothers me so bad I feel as if I could toss cookies. I cannot stand this! I am so angry!
There most likely aren’t any except the Bush tax cuts if you count them. I was just saying that they “could” not that they ever would.
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