Leaked slides show Obama EPA is fast-tracking global warming endangerment finding.
Leaked slides show Obama EPA is fast-tracking global warming endangerment finding.
In April 2007, the Supreme Court mandated that the EPA determine whether greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare and take action in response. After more than a year of resistance, the EPA released a document of staff findings, which was then quickly attacked by White House political appointees. They also resisted finalizing taking any actions. Today, Greenwire (sub. req’d) published an internal EPA presentation showing that the Obama administration is “fast-tracking” its response to the 2007 ruling, with plans to release its findings in mid-April:
To expand to public health, EPA plans to make connections between climate change and everything from temperatures to air quality and expanded ranges of vector-borne and tick-borne diseases.
The EPA document said dealing with public health and welfare had “solid legal defensibility.”
The Obama EPA’s analysis is significant; the Bush ruling ignored global warming’s effects on public health, focusing only on “welfare and the links between greenhouse gases and visibility, weather, crop damage and soil.” View the slide show here.
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But Dana Perino told me that fewer people would be freezing to death. What about all of those frozen people, huh, Science?
/snark
March 10th, 2009 at 4:19 pmWow, it’s great to have a President who uses his Science Briefings for something other than spare toilet paper
March 10th, 2009 at 4:22 pmWhat about the Vitter termites!!!
March 10th, 2009 at 4:23 pmRefreshing after 8 years of flat earth policy.
March 10th, 2009 at 4:24 pmYou mean the Bush Administration ignored the law?
I am shocked, deeply shocked.
March 10th, 2009 at 4:25 pmCloudless azure skies
March 10th, 2009 at 4:29 pmScience rises once again
Enriches our lives
Hmmm. So was this document leaked or “leaked?” I wonder…
Still, it’s good news either way.
March 10th, 2009 at 4:30 pmIn the end how many people will Bush have killed or maimed?
March 10th, 2009 at 4:35 pmIf it proves too late for some because of 8 years of inaction on climate change, that could be a pretty big number… say billions?
I am indeed grateful that we now have a President who believes that scientific findings should only see the light of day when they are convenient for a political agenda. And I’m happy that this is another Bush mess that Obama is attempting to undo.
That said — can I comment on these slides? This is “Death by Powerpoint” if I’ve ever seen it. I feel sorry for the EPA staffers who were subjected to this presentation and I sincerely hope they didn’t have to receive it right after a big meal. Powerpoint is supposed to be a visual aid, not a teleprompter. And the one GOOD thing they used the slides for (the graphs and charts) was botched by poor formatting.
If the EPA is still in need of a competent visual presentation specialist, I’m available…
March 10th, 2009 at 4:36 pmoops — “we now have a President who believes that scientific findings should only see the light of day” should be “we now have a President who DOESN’T believe that scientific findings should only see the light of day”
My bad…
March 10th, 2009 at 4:38 pmThank goodness they’re taking this issue seriously; we can’t afford another administration that just ignores science or life-threatening issues like this one. Hopefully we’ll see some real good coming out of the works real soon with Obama and co. Maybe it’s too much to ask, but I really hope they start to turn their attention to other issues beyond the economy, like global poverty, which has an understated, but huge economic and geopolitical impact on our world and will only continue to do so as we head deeper into the 21st century.
The Borgen Project (www.borgenproject.org) has some interesting insight into addressing the issues of global poverty, something we can remedy easily and sustainably.
Some interesting figures to ponder:
March 10th, 2009 at 4:38 pm$30 billion USD: The annual shortfall to end global poverty.
$550 billion USD: The annual US defense budget.
misshusseinmolly Says:
If the EPA is still in need of a competent visual presentation specialist, I’m available…
March 10th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Or they just need to learn from the master of Powerpoint simplicity, Abraham Lincoln: http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm
March 10th, 2009 at 4:41 pmSo Borgen lived on a vessel in Dutch Harbor? How come he only claims to have lived aboard but not actually fished her? Maybe Clint or whatever the hell it is might come and and talk commercial with me. Then maybe we can make some sandwiches together
March 10th, 2009 at 4:42 pmI nominate MissHMolly to the post of EPA visual aide czar!
March 10th, 2009 at 5:11 pmhussein toasterhead Says
March 10th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Or they just need to learn from the master of Powerpoint simplicity, Abraham Lincoln: http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm
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Oh yes, that’s a vast improvement. Still, if your PPT presentation is more than 50% dot-points, you might want to take another look at it.
I hope that Lincoln at least used builds on the slides with more than one point to keep his audience focused. And that he used a build style that was straight-forward instead of being “cute” (I hate it when stuff flies or crawls in!).
March 10th, 2009 at 5:41 pmWell, it was slow rolled for the last eight years.
March 10th, 2009 at 6:17 pmAlas, the eight years wasted will not be returned. But I almost feel like dancing when I consider that knowledge and science have replaced dogma in the halls of power, though I’m sure the GOoPers will dig in their heels and obstruct all the more.
March 10th, 2009 at 6:34 pmAbout time! After being anchored down by the Bush administration, it has a lot of catching up to gain the position it should already be at.
March 10th, 2009 at 9:22 pmYou dopes will believe anything, I’ll bet.
Man-made “global warming” is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated. It’s right up there with the last big scare – global cooling!!! OMG, an ice age is coming they said.
Idiots.
March 10th, 2009 at 9:40 pmYou know, the people behind this scam better ram through their agenda pretty quick – before the REAL science catches up with them!
You numbnuts are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.
March 10th, 2009 at 9:41 pmWhile you dopes don’t believe anything.
I doubt if you can remember what fast food restaurant you had which meal at today, Tim Whack, much less the last big scare.
March 10th, 2009 at 9:44 pmHi Tim!
March 10th, 2009 at 9:46 pmIn order to believe in this so-called “climate change” scam, you actually have to ignore vast amounts of credible information, actual facts about what’s happening in our climate and the opinions of a large number of climatologists and scientists of various disciplines!
You dimwits could start by reading “Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 10,000 Years”. You could follow that with a few excellent, peer-reviewed studies on the effects of the SUN on our climate.
I have a simple question for you geniuses: What is the biggest greenhouse gas by volume in our atmosphere?
March 10th, 2009 at 9:46 pmTim gets his science from the ingredients poster at McDonalds.
March 10th, 2009 at 9:46 pm“I have a simple question for you geniuses: What is the biggest greenhouse gas by volume in our atmosphere?”
The emanations from your car 20 minutes after leaving the drive up window.
March 10th, 2009 at 9:47 pmTim Vaculik Says: “You numbnuts are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.”
You seem to think you are entitled to your own facts…
March 10th, 2009 at 9:56 pmHere’s some science for you, Tim…
March 10th, 2009 at 10:03 pmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7935159.stm
Hey Tim… sorry about the fast food thing, if I touched a raw nerve, it was all in good fun… it’s just that the world wide beef industry thing is such a fiasco… major contribution to the disruption of natural orders, you know, your 10,000 year cycles and all….
March 10th, 2009 at 10:22 pmI won’t bring it up again, ‘kay?
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Ahhh…
… The marvels of science, NO?
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March 11th, 2009 at 1:10 amHere’s some more science, Tim….
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7936137.stm
Tim?
March 11th, 2009 at 8:55 amGlobal warming, what a frickin’ joke. This house of cards is falling apart, but go ahead and bang your drum anyway. Oh and by the way, decide which way you guys are going. Is the Earth heating up or cooling down. Just curious.
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