Let’s start with former EPA heads
The U.S. is failing to take the lead in confronting global warming, a "dishonest" and "self-destructive" approach that only worsens the problem, say former federal environmental chiefs.
"We need leadership, and I don’t think we’re getting it," Russell Train said Wednesday at an Environmental Protection Agency symposium commemorating the agency’s 35th anniversary.
They were among six former EPA heads — five Republicans and one Democrat — who accused the Bush administrations of neglecting global warming and other environmental problems.
All of the former administrators and the current one, Stephen Johnson, raised their hands when the event moderator asked whether they believe global warming is a real problem and again when he asked if humans bear significant blame.
Johnson said the Bush administration has spent $20 billion on research and technology to combat climate change after President Bush rejected mandatory controls on carbon dioxide. That’s the chief gas blamed for trapping heat in the atmosphere like a greenhouse.
Let’s see. They did what, exactly, while head of the EPA? And, remind me, which President originally refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol, because it would seriously damage the US economy? Yes, Clinton. And Bush continued based on the exact same study. Remind me which administration relaxed the rules for SUV’s, so that they can burn more fuel, creating more CO2 and air pollutants. Hint: the name begins with the letter after Bush’s.
Furthermore, so far there has not been an pure definitive studies that show it is all man’s fault. Quite the contrary. One scientific study showed that the Sun has been getting hotter over the past 60 years. Others, which take actual temperature measurements, show that cities have gotten hotter, but that the surrounding areas have only gone up less then 1 degree over the past 150 years, and some have gone down. And Antarctica has been getting colder.
Christie Whitman, the first of three EPA administrators in the current Bush administration, said people obviously are having "an enormous impact" on the earth’s warming.
Got proof? Or just rhetoric? If Kyoto was so great, then why is it that so many of the European signaturies are not in compliance?
Then we get into more hysteria
If you thought Hurricane Katrina was a once-in-a-lifetime fluke, think again. Concerned environmentalists say that unless the United States gets real about the threat of global warming, African Americans and other people of color can expect a repeat of disasters like Katrina.
“When you look at the trends and put them all together, it’s undisputable that the sea levels are rising,†says Ansje Miller, director of the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (EJCC). “Warmer seas mean more intense hurricanes…. You’re going to have intense flooding like we have never seen before. Katrina is really the hurricane of the future.â€
No, you perform scientific studies, rather then go with your feelings. Plus, I wasn’t aware that Hurricane Katrina was a first of its kind. Plus II, that was a pretty racist article. Imagine if it had said white people.
Montana Gov. Brian Scheweitzer wants to put a panel together to take on global warming. WIll they figure out a way to lessen the impact of the Sun?
Plants are now not part of the blame in global warming, despite the study that says they release quite a bit of methane. Can’t be blaming nature now, can we? It is easier to blame man.
"They existed long before man’s influence started to impact upon the atmosphere," the team write. "The fundamental problem still remaining is the global large-scale burning of fossil fuels."
Again, proof? And, correct me if I am wrong, but hasn’t the earth had warmer periods in the past, prior to Man? Yes. Because, and here’s the kicker, the Earth’s ecosphere is a dynamic system, always in motion, always in flux. Was Man to blame for the Little Ice Age. Oops, sorry, not supposed to bring up anything prior to Bush taking office. I know how that upsets some people.
