Busted! – EPA Uses Junk Statistics to Support Junk Science in Crippling Regulations

http://gopthedailydose.com ^ | june 9, 2014 | rick wells

[lowbridge]

It’s a tough sell trying to push a domestic agenda that will cripple your country. The last things you need getting in the way are facts which don’t support your made-up claims.

In more legitimate administrations, the proponents might have had to give up, or scale back on their dubious goals, but not now. Obama does as Obama wants. They’ll just make up more supportive “facts” they like as they go along.

It’s too bad for the talking yard gnome, EPA Secretary Gina McCarthy, that someoneinvestigated the veracity and accuracy of her claims. What they discovered is an absence of any legitimate scientific method in the creation of statistical evidence to support their position. Simply put, she’s been caught lying.

What’s worse for her and the Obama spin-meisters, those who exposed and documented the falsehoods cannot be accused of belonging to some right-wing conspiracy. They acted on behalf of the liberal-leaning Brookings Institution.

Brookings fellow Ted Gayer and Vanderbilt University economist Kip Viscusi conducted the study and uncovered the inaccuracies, stating that the EPA “shifted to a worldwide benefits approach, leading to a substantial increase in the estimated benefits.” The costs quoted were domestic, but they extrapolated the benefits worldwide to inflate the perceived gain, making their argument more acceptable.

[Sioux-san]

It is time to have this entire “Administration” committed to a long-term mental institution for the criminally insane.

[ShadowAce]

Simply put, she’s been caught lying.

About what, in particular?

[the anti-mahdi]

Ah, the Brookings Institute, Susan Rice’s Alma Mater, a veritable repository of factual information.

What a joke...

[Foundahardheadedwoman]

I wonder why I am not surprised, I am beyond the point where I believe any thing they say and anything they claim is good for us, I know is just the opposite.

[sauropod]

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[R_Kangel]

.... Obama is nothing more than the worlds most powerful radical activist and organizer working on a global scale. Everything he does is covered in Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals. For some reason the GOP never seems to grasp this fact ..... and refuse to understand their opponents. They continue think that everything that is happening is just business as usual and nothing to worry about.

[bicyclerepair]

Goebbels would be proud!

[Chode]

i preferred they all be lobotomized...

[dalebert]

but who will do anything about it.

[grobdriver]

None of this matters.
Obama and the enviro-wackos have nearly the entire government in their pocket (Department of Justice in particular), and most of those not in their pocket are too scared to fight them (hello, Republicans).

Those who are inclined to fight are in a bad spot with a dwindling majority of Americans supporting them.
Too many stupid kids and even more stupid adults embrace The Lie.

[Sioux-san]

you are kinder than I am - tarring & feathering comes to mind for me.

[Chode]

works for me...

[CincyRichieRich]

With all do respect, how does some story on the GOP daily or whatever translate to trouble for the DEMs and the EPA? Only if FOXNews or if Cruz or someone else gets it on the news on quote on reference will it matter. Otherwise it is a tree falling in the woods with no one to hear it and no proof it occurred. Sorry, but that is where we are.

[Secret Agent Man]

they aren’t insane. they know what they are doing and are aware of it, and are doing it deliberately. they are evil, not insane.

[familyop]

The truth about the new wood stove and hydronic boiler rule. And contrary to recent comments by some, in a little over five years, wood heaters (woodstoves) of the kind currently certified and expensive won’t even come close to passing. [Little loss of smugness for some there.]

Residential Wood Heaters New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) Proposal – General Overview
http://www2.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014-02/documents/proposed-nsps-overviewslides20140218.pdf

[JimSEA]

Not everyone is buying into the "settled science, no questions please bit. Now, perhaps the Antarctic ice sheet collapse began 5,000 to 14,000 yeas ago as the last ice age weakened. Not that everything is necessarily all okay but just that more, less politically influenced and publicly pressured work can be done.

This study puts things back in a believable time scale.

[familyop]

Fireplaces and other currently used heaters guaranteed to be banned soon after, BTW. Masonry heaters will have to be filtered. Due to many with those installations posting cheers for the new regs. (”all grandfathered in” and superior to the neighbors), it’s already a nationwide low roar and in the works. Defecate-on-your-neighbor politics is not the way to go.

[familyop]

"Obama..."

The new EPA rules were the results of quite a few state and local governments and interested corporations running the sweetheart lawsuit scam with the EPA. The EPA doesn't have to pay and claims to be a victim pushed into implementing the rules. It's a recurring con game.

The figurehead (Obama for now) takes credit in so-called news for the demands of his most influential constituents in both parties, and socialist political/regulator folks continue getting votes from the indoctrinated and ignorant.

State and local regulations are just as bad and are part of the whole game (see federal funding to local bipartisan bureaucrats). It would better be called the anti-competition game of outlawing domestic competition and self-sufficiency.

It won't work, though. For the technically inclined, there are always good and honorable ways around regulations to savings and personal and family independence.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Oh come on. Its not we can just let everybody have electricity. At least not 24 hours per day. Its time to eat out peas for climate change.