Posted on 02/23/2014 10:21:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to address climate change. That shouldnt be a controversial statement, but in some quarters, it is. Indeed, its at the heart of a set of legal challenges that will be heard by the Supreme Court on Monday.
As administrator of the EPA from 2001-03, I served in the administration of President George W. Bush. I may sometimes disagree with his successor on the best way to address climate change as a matter of policy, but I absolutely agree that the EPA has broad authority to issue regulations addressing climate change, including those being challenged by industry groups and their allies in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. Environmental Protection Agency, otherwise known as the greenhouse gas cases, or UARG for short.
Climate change is the defining environmental challenge of our time, and there are huge consequences for inaction whether measured in human lives or economic disruption. Given these stakes, I wish Congress would step up and do its job, refining Americas approach to climate change and expanding the tools at the EPAs disposal. In previous decades, the EPA could rely upon bipartisan majorities to revise the Clean Air Act and address new and growing air pollution problems directly. Today, gridlock and partisanship make such common-sense action all but impossible. Nevertheless, the Clean Air Act as written remains the most powerful tool the EPA has at its disposal to address the issue of climate change....
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Can only listen to a few minutes of him.
"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal,"
it is entirely plausible this Whitman would say this.
His megalomaniacal delusion apparently is a communicable disease that can easily spread to defective brains.
How can you stop the change? If you “stop” it, that is changing things. Changing it from warming to cooling or cooling to warming, whatever the talking point is this season.
The Green Scare is a far more expensive and ungrounded hysteria than the so-called “Red Scare” was.
These libtards are delusional and are being played by those seeking control over economies (production and profits).
So, Ms. Whitman, please explain to us the science as to how SOLAR ACTIVITY was completely ruled out as a driver of climate change, as it must be in order to ascribe to the EPA such powers?
Oh, good! Which climate are they going to pick or can I pick the one I want for my property?
The policy of the administration and the money needed for the program that taxes that isn't enough so we lobby congress to make law that defines our ability to take your money.
NOTHING is ever said about, "Well Ralph ... this cold front meets this warm front and ... BOOM ... a storm happens."
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the suns planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
I see the EPA, IRS and DHS as havoc wreckers. They are temple like institutions of corruption and murder while the FCC has become the media.
Sickening. It’s a power grab by the Obama Administration. I doubt whether any of the people high up in his administration really believe we can control the climate.
Whitman and Christy are the same bad joke.
They think they can stop the earth and the sun rotating and cycling.
If there’s any idiocy left in the world, they are attempting a Hunt Brothers cornering of the market.
Oh but there's more. The second speaker was Rep Susan Molinari -R of NY state. Guess who her husband is? Does the name Bill Paxon ring a bell to anyone? The Coup of the GOP. Read it here Bill Paxon Read all of the article and see how we got to where we are today in the GOP.
islamism
I’m tired of all this cold weather. Can the EPA make it warm again or bring spring a little early?!
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