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Sarah Palin's bus tour a hazard to motorists
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:53:50 -0400, in misc.transport.road
"Ala" > wrote in > : > >"N8N" > wrote in message ... > > >>The funny thing is, it seems that in a schadenfreudey sort of way, the >>people complaining about driving transgressions in a neighborhood are >>often the ones subsequently complaining about being cited for those >>same offenses once the targeted enforcement for which they clamored is >>actually instituted. > >>That makes me smile. > >http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/commentary/wb/290521 >EPA broke own rules on carbon >Did anyone complain of the co2 > >Ken Cuccinelli > >Cuccinelli is the attorney general of Virginia. > >In the Roanoke Times editorial "Virginia sues the feds again" (June 13), I >am labeled "anti-science" for standing up against the Environmental >Protection Agency and its decision to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant >that is dangerous to humans. > >First, this dangerous "pollutant" is something that you and I exhale every >few seconds. Second, the EPA's ruling gave the agency immense power to >regulate human activities that involve CO2 emissions, yet it relied on data >that has been called into question, even by proponents of the theory of >manmade global warming. Third, the EPA may have broken U.S. law in an >attempt to expedite this economy-altering decision. > >The EPA relied primarily on data from a global warming report from the >United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Several incidents >since the ruling have brought the reliability of that data into question, >including emails leaked in the 2009 Climategate scandal which showed that >some of the world's prominent climatologists may have manipulated data to >overstate the effects of carbon dioxide on the environment. > >Since the revelations from Climategate became public, some scientists >involved in the IPCC report have had to readdress their research. Even >renowned climate researcher Judith Curry of Georgia Tech recently said that >there is no question that data in the report was misleading and that "it is >obvious that there has been deletion of adverse data" that would work >against the theory of rapid global warming in the last century. > >To illustrate the questionable benefit of such broad regulations crafted >from suspect data, look at the EPA's proposed regulations to limit >greenhouse gas emissions for cars and light trucks. The agency says these >CO2-limiting, global-warming reducing rules would add about $950 to the >price of every new vehicle. But buried deep in the report, the EPA's own >models showed that for that extra $950, over the next 90 years, those >regulations would only reduce temperature increases by less than two >one-hundredths of a degree Celsius! Cooch clearly is ignorant of science. |
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