Competitive Enterprise Institute Petitions EPA to Suspend Proposed CO2 Regs
On October 5, CEI petitioned EPA to reopen its Endangerment Proceeding because of a disclosure by the CRU that it had destroyed the raw data for its data set of global surface temperatures. In our view, this destruction of data was a major breach of scientific standards. It warranted a reexamination of the studies based on that data, and a reopening of the comment period to allow public response to this issue.
In the past two weeks, however, new information has surfaced which casts far greater doubt on the validity of CRU’s work. In the view of many, this information destroys CRU’s reputation entirely. Yesterday, CRU announced that its director, Dr. Phil Jones, was stepping down from his position temporarily while the university conducts an investigation of the released material. If the new material is serious enough to have led to the departure, at least temporarily, of CRU’s director, then for that same reason it justifies EPA calling a regulatory time-out.
In a separate action today, several members of Congress — Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), ranking member of the House Select Committee on Global Warming and Energy Independence, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wy.), and Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) — wrote to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson urging her to withdraw the Proposed Endangerment Finding, the Light Duty Vehicle Rule, and the Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule until the agency can demonstrate the science underlying these regulatory decisions has not been compromised. The members of Congress also noted that EPA had relied heavily on CRU’s research in the development of the endangerment determination.
Good Luck! It’s safer and simpler to get a bone from a pit bull then getting a bureaucrat to end a program. Even a court order will just make the bureaucrats re-name the program.
The only way to get a bureaucracy to stop a program is to put that part of the bureaucracy under another bureaucracy. Look at what President Bush did to the CIA. He made them part of Homeland Security. Now the CIA budget is subject to the bureaucratic politics between them and Homeland Security. That took an act of Congress, which is what it will take to get the EPA off their AGW bone.
Make the EPA part of DOE or maybe even DOT and then you’ll get results. That will take an act of Congress.
Noticed who controls Congress? This belongs on the to-do list for the post 2010 elections, IF they are held.
So does this mean Al Gore will give back his Nobel Peace Prize since his whole documentary was based on false information??
It’s not just the corruption evident in the emails – there are constant cry’s of “acidification of the oceans’ from CO2″ and how it will destroy shellfish. Actually, the studies are showing they build bigger shells from all that disolved CO2.
Al Gore’s Academy Award should probably be given back as well. Maybe the Academy can change the category he won from Best Documentary Feature to Best Short Science Fiction film.
So… these clowns were proposing massive public policy changes based on their research findings, and yet… they don’t actually have their raw data anymore?
As Fraser Crane would say, “What color is the sky in your world, Dr. Philip Jones?”
Madam Boxer is planning to hold hearings on the HACKER and NOT THE FRAUDSTERS! We need to investigate her and her spouse for corruption and abuse of power. Can a senator be impeached for snobbery? SHE NEEDS REMOVED in 2010.
“Can a senator be impeached for snobbery?”
LOL
You don’t call someone who forges data a scientist. You call them an ex-scientist. They will “cease to exist” more surely than any character in 1984. The next time you see them it is likely that they will be a chauffeur, or a greeter at Wal-Mart, or in another similarly distinguished position.
Forging data is the number one way to crash and burn in a science career. The profession does not tolerate liars.
Charlie (_*IS*_ a scientist)
Any person or agency that tries to push global warming on us now will immediately loose the public’s trust and confidence.
But what the heck, let them. By doing so they indirectly expose themselves as co-conspirators…
We better learn how to get good at siege warfare: The bureaucrats can throw bad science (the kind that goes only downhill) at you to cover their tyrannical ambitions, but they stand behind the tall walls of authority, legitimate or otherwise.
Right now, the statists hold the hill, (literally!) and we are still bogged down in the mud at the base of the fortress. The Competitive Enterprise Institute seems to be leading the uphill charge. They ought to be reinforced by other courageous institutions, because a single assailant might not suffice to breach the defenses, be they rethoric, juridic, SEIU-ic, and whatever else the traffic will carry.
In this epic storm, ACORN is demonstrating the legendary “Robin Hood” strategy, invented (long before Karl Marx) by the self-appointed hoody redistributionner, distinguishing himself from ordinary robbers by gathering an entourage of various comparses, even including a man of the cloth (They did not come from the South Side in these days, yet). The high decibel reenactment is not free of charge, but it’s pretty good, for a bunch of bumbling amateurs.
This is the kind of happenings the professional journalists are supposed to bring up to our attention, but they have gotten drowsy on a sleeping pill distributed under the trademark POLITCORR (TM), Patented by ACADEM LLC, so the water has to be carried by the creative upstarts like Biggovernment.com, Breitbart.tv, pajamasmedia.com, PJTV.com and many others of lesser profile, but of equal spirit.
Suspense movies rely on a somewhat predictable alternation between a near-disaster saved at the last moment by a near-miracle, itself soon spoiled by another clever contribution of the devil, so the cycle can start over again. After two or three iterations of this al-gore-ithm, the audience runs out of whatever surplus of adrenaline was available when they entered the theater, and the movie reaches its conclusion, or the theater catches fire, whichever comes first. Today’s political bounds and rebounds seem to follow a similar pattern. This is the time for the tea partiers to show their grit. Careful, the 2nd amendment might cover concealed hockey sticks!
If Paul Revere was coming back today, he might be riding a 150HP all-terrain vehicle equipped with a 200 Watts megaphone and announcing “The planet fever doctors are coming!”
This is the beginning of the long process to rid ourselves of the laws and regulations that were based on fraudulent data. It may take a while, but it must be done.
The truly disturbing part of Climategate is not the revelation that global warming never existed. Many of us doubted it all along, since there was no real evidence of it. It’s disturbing that so many politicians allowed themselves to be fooled. In their foolishness, they rushed to impose untold number of laws and regulations upon us to reduce our quality of life. We now expect the same level of enthusiasm in repealing them.
BackwardsBoy – It’s disturbing that so many politicians allowed themselves to be fooled.
They weren’t fooled, BB. Here, finally, was the perfect opportunity to tax and control. The ultimate red-green fantasy had arrived. In order to “save the Planet from ourselves,” virtually all energy production and consumption would come under the direct control of vast bureaucracies with almost unlimited reach into every aspect of our lives. It was perfect and facts be damned – they saw the shimmering brilliance emanating from the climactic pirate’s treasure chest and , by God, they were going to get their piece. They’ll not go quietly. They are too invested. It’s not over.
Sorry – From my last: climactic should be climatic. Although it sort of works. Guess I got a little excited about the issue. – Chuck, near Houston (where it may snow tomorrow!!!)
There was a news story in the last couple of days showing that the EPA didn’t use information from its own in-house experts, but rather went with — for the first time ever — the UN IPCC information. That the EPA’s own experts wrote skeptical opinions had nothing to do with anything is what we’ll be told, I’m sure. Nothing to see here. Move along.
The EPA is just as corrupt as the rest of the climategate team, and is stacked politically.
This ought to be fun to watch. Popcorn time.
Al Gore will never give back ‘His’ Nobel Peace Prize, just like Obama, they are both far left lib’s who had good intentions,hated George Bush and: ‘The end always justify the means’, unless you are a nasty Republican.
“The members of Congress also noted that EPA had relied heavily on CRU’s research in the development of the endangerment determination.”
Glad these guys have their heads screwed on straight today…
Note, however, that the Associated Press is painting Sensenbrenner as the ONLY GUY to be screaming about Climategate, as if no scientists are doing so.
3. And why are the shellfish growing bigger shells? Maybe it’s because the shells are made out of chiton (a polymer of amino-glucose), not calcium carbonate (which would dissolve in an acidic environment). Again, the environmentalists either blatantly lie, or fail to understand basic science.
Very good.
They can sue the EPA and force the EPA to provide any and all proof of hazard claims. They will have to actually proove warming and prove CO2 is harmful. This will tie up regulations they crank out for years until the case is settled.
The EPA will have no proof. Just “science is settled” and other artifical arguments.
Mann and his crowd will be reduced to just another rag time band of carbon Protestors.
Go after the EPA and everyone else who is self-righteously shoving anti-AGW measures down our throats. Go after them like a pitbull! Don’t take any garbage from them. The ringleader scientists have proven beyond any shadow of a reasonable doubt to be psycho liars. With the disappearance of the data, there is now no evidence for global warming at all, much less AGW, so go in for the carotid. If they weren’t psychos, they would feel a sense of guilt and shame for what they have done, but they are not normal people; they are psychos. These people need to be smashed into the ground and kicked like dogs so that they never even think about pulling another such stunt again. That is the way you have to treat them. They don’t understand anything else. You think they are concerned about YOUR plight as a result of the political measures they advocate? No! Kick them hard!
“EPA had relied heavily on CRU’s research…” This would be the same EPA that suppressed the Carlin report last spring prior to its policy announcement that CO2 is a toxin requiring federal regulation. Employees were forced by people who answer to POTUS to stop questioning the validity of the “science” we’ve seen exposed as fraudulent.
I hope my representative is investigating this travesty (where have I seen that word?). I sent him an email urging him to do so. The alarmists would have us believe in the “one bad apple” theory with regards to CRU. Everywhere I look, so far, I see reference after reference to Mann, Jones, et al. Briffa, anyone?
This surely makes perfect sense to anyone!!
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