Et Tu Rushei!
Posted on 06/04/2002 2:18:54 PM PDT by ZGuy
Report Relying On Discredited Science Previously Disavowed As Official Policy
Washington, D.C.,
The Environmental Protection Agency’s latest report on global warming to the United Nations, Climate Action Report 2002, violates an agreement between the White House and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, three members of Congress, and other non-profit advocacy groups, struck in settlement of a lawsuit. The report relies in part on the discredited National Assessment on Climate Change.
As a result of the lawsuit filed in October 2000, the Bush Administration ultimately agreed in September 2001 to withdraw the National Assessment and stated that its unlawfully produced conclusions are “not policy positions or official statements of the U.S. government.” EPA has ignored this agreement in issuing its report to the United Nations.
“Through Freedom of Information Act inquiries, we learned that the National Assessment was hurriedly slapped together in an incomplete and inaccurate form,” said Christopher C. Horner, CEI counsel who filed the lawsuit. “The current Climate Action Report inappropriately cites the disgraced National Assessment, in clear violation of the spirit and letter of our agreement with the White House in return for withdrawing our suit.”
Adds Myron Ebell, director of global warming policy at CEI: “The Administration has recognized that the National Assessment is the worst sort of junk science. For the EPA now to accept the National Assessment’s findings as valid undermines and contradicts President Bush’s global warming policies. The EPA needs to be told that the Clinton Administration is gone and Al Gore did not win the election.”
The lawsuit against the White House’s flawed climate science was brought jointly by CEI, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Representatives Joe Knollenberg (R-MI) and Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO), and other non-profit advocacy groups. CEI’s pleadings in the case can be found in the docket at the federal District Court for the District of Columbia (CV 00-02383).
And that's what the UN will be reading. Can't blame this on Clinton. He's not there anymore. *sigh*
At least this one looks like he didn't do it for the Democrats. That's good news.
I keep going back to sixty years ago. There was a military commander who literally was infuriating people by following his gut instinct and trusting a pair of good intelligence officers. As a result, he was able to turn the tide of a war at a battle over two insignificant islands that were the only inhabitable chunks of land on an atoll called... Midway.
Bush's ways are not Rush's ways. They have the same goals, but different methods of reaching them. There will be some times when there will be disagreements, but we have to keep our eye on the goal.
Bush has been consistent in flummoxing his opposition since the campaign.
Remember the 'Rats' commercial? Want to guess how many times the liberal news media ran that commercial as "news" with barely disguised disgust? Want to guess how many people saw it? Want to guess how much it cost Bush to have all those people see it?
Remember when he granted welfare rights to the unborn? Suddenly, the argument was ours. The unborn are people.
Remember how he sidestepped CFR? He effectively took the wind out of it by passing it, rightfully, to the Supreme Court where it will be summarily swatted down on First Amendment rights.
He's now opened up the debate on global warming, the grandaddy of leftist-socialism, and for the first time in public a President will say, "It's junk science," and the onus will be on the liberals to prove him wrong.
I'm suprised that all the naysayers on this site have missed the biggest and best part of it...
Rush Limbaugh is Bush's friend, folks, and he's in on it.
Et Tu Rushei!
psssst, Someone be sure to tell Bush also.
Long live the New Deal and FDR's Commerce Clause!
/Neo-Con drivel mode
There is no authorization in the Constitution, that I can see, for the EPA to even exist.
In accordance with the Tenth Amendment, this should be a power exercised by each State.
As long as the EPA exists as a Federal agency, we are going to be fighting battles like this latest Global Warming flap over and over again.
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