The data process used to arrive at the administration's determination that greenhouse gases endanger "the public health and welfare" violated the Environmental Protection Agency's own peer review procedure, a new report from the EPA Office of the Inspector General reveals.
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, requested this report in April, asking that the OIG determine whether the EPA "followed key federal and Agency regulations and policies in developing and reviewing the technical data used to make and support its greenhouse gases endangerment finding." Now, Inhofe is calling for a series of hearings to further investigate the IG's findings.
The Daily Caller's Caroline May, with more:
"I appreciate the inspector general conducting a thorough investigation into the Obama-EPA's handling of the endangerment finding for greenhouse gases," Inhofe said. "This report confirms that the endangerment finding, the very foundation of President Obama's job-destroying regulatory agenda, was rushed, biased and flawed. It calls the scientific integrity of EPA's decision-making process into question and undermines the credibility of the endangerment finding."
Inhofe lambasted the EPA for its failure to adhere to its own rules, outsourcing the science to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- and refusing to conduct its own analysis of the science -- in the period leading up to its final endangerment finding.
"The endangerment finding is no small matter: Global warming regulations imposed by the Obama-EPA under the Clean Air Act will cost American consumers $300 to $400 billion a year, significantly raise energy prices, and destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs. This is not to mention the 'absurd result' that EPA will need to hire 230,000 additional employees and spend an additional $21 billion to implement its [green house gas] regime. And all of this economic pain is for nothing: As EPA Administrator [Lisa] Jackson also admitted before the Environmental and Public Works] committee, these regulations will have no effect on the climate."
You know what doesn't cost consumers billions of dollars each year, raise energy prices or destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs? Yep, you guessed it -- drilling for natural gas. Just ask the Pennsylvanians who've benefited from all the activity surrounding the Marcellus Shale.
Yet the GOP has the rep as the anti-science party? I'll never understand it.
P.S. You know that big building pictured in the thumbnail to this post? HQ of the EPA? I can't help but wonder how it's heated ... Down with the EPA, ATF, DOE, DOEd.
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"outsourcing the science to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change"
That panel is not a scientific organization, it's a political organization whose primary function is to support the "settled science" of AGW (man caused global warming). Might as well ask Al Gore to write the report....
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WORLD NEWS > ARCTIC MAY BE [Cheap]OIL'S LAST FRONTIER.
Lets not fergit the Antarctic = the Other Pole.
Another reason for our desired future OWG-NWO, aka PRE/PROTO-SPACE GOVT, ORDER, to form universal Pert concensus on available resources for deep space exploration + colonization.
During an appearance on Morning Joe, Tuesday, Newsweek editor Tina Brown made an off-hand remark about Barack Obama, conceding that the politician "wasn't ready" to be President. Brown has previously attacked Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives for daring to oppose the Obama
While discussing whether New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will change his mind and run for President, the former New Yorker editor blurted, "Actually, I just hope he doesn't, because in the end, you know, his tremendous misgivings, maybe he is right. I mean, We had this with Obama. He wasn't ready, it turns out, really."
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He still isn't ready. He will never be ready. Declare victory for a black president and pull out. He is done.
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I knew that three years ago. So how come I'm not on Morning Joe giving my "expert" analysis or running Newsweak?
Guess I don't go to the right parties...
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That's a fine looking fuzzy wuzzy dingera doo.
I guess if Chavez can call in the shaman. Should have a few wallabies to round it off. Tina Brown could do whatever she does.
Jack: I don't know about you, but I intend to write a strongly worded letter to the White Star Line about all of this.
President Barack B.O. Obama's chief political adviser on Tuesday conceded that a dark cloud looms over the American economy and Obama's political future, describing the president's road to a second term in the White House as "a titanic struggle." Brock Lovett: Dive six, here we are again on the deck of Titanic. Two and a half miles down. Three-thousand, eight hundred and twenty-one meters. The pressure outside is three-and-a-half tons per square inch. These windows are nine inches thick, and if they go, it's sayonara in two micro-seconds.
"We have the wind in our face because the American people have the wind in their faces," David Axelrod ...a Chicago-based political hack, political adviser to Barack B.O. Obama since 2004. Following the 2008 election, he was appointed as Senior Advisor to Obama and we all see how well that worked out.... told an audience of New Hampshire politicians and business leaders. "So this is going to be a titanic struggle. But I firmly believe we're on the right side of the struggle." And I firmly believe he's found precisely the right word. Precisely.
But even as he acknowledged the stark political reality, Tommy Ryan: Ah, forget it, boyo. You're as like to have angels fly out your arse!
Axelrod said the president would ultimately win re-election, in part because of the flawed field of Republican candidates. He characterized their plans to repair the nation's ailing economy as the same kind of deregulation and tax cuts that caused the downturn in the first place. Lewis Bodine: Incredible. There's Smith and he's standing there and he's got the iceberg warning in his fucking hand, excuse me, his hand, and he's ordering more speed.
"This isn't new wine and old bottles. This is old wine and old bottles," Axelrod said. Isn't old wine in old bottles what brings in the really big bucks at the auction houses? [Looking at a salvaged hand mirror]
Old Rose: This was mine. How extraordinary! And it looks the same as it did last time I saw it... The reflection's changed a bit.
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We're lowering the last of the boats. Please pass this note to Mr. Hartley and ask him to have the orchestra strike up this tune.
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B-U-T, the Titanic didn't have enough lifeboats for its number of passengers to begin with, + what boats they did have weren't properly managed or led after that wily dastardly iceberg intentionally crashed into it.
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But I firmly believe we're on the right side of the struggle
Technically, you're on the LEFT side of the struggle. Given the historic record of events, its not a sustainable let alone winning side. You can extend the struggle through the usually delaying means like suspending civil rights and real democracy and thus kick the proverbial can (inevitable implosion) to the next generation.
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A video for the bitter clingers and James Cameron haters:
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Oh, darn. Mods, can you delete or fix that? It looked fine in Preview.
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g(r)omguru, fun to see somebody else familiar with that movie.
Made to watch this crap movie recently, find myself cheering for the iceberg anymore, stars Bill Paxton (Game Over, Man!) so it has that. Wife commented the reason it was such a big love story is that dicaprio dies before they have to start waking up next to each other for 4 years with kate complaining that dicaprio has no job and a family to provide for.
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>deregulation and tax cuts that caused the downturn in the first place
What de-regulation? The credit bubble was regulated into existence as politicians need credit to cover over the harm to money velocity that transfer taxes do.
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Thanks for that, JUSTICE. I was just informed that I should not encourage the nasty troll but I can't help asking if you ever heard of a product we call toilet paper. How about soap and water? They work very well together. But I guess it doesn't matter if you don't mind smelling like a camel. Oh, one more thing, do you really shave your pubes? No, no. Forget I asked that one. I really don't want to know.
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As for Axelrod, you cannot sail directly into the wind. You have to tack otherwise you'll be stuck in irons. I thought a smart guy like him would have figured that out.
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You're not seriously expecting lefties to actually recognize and understand reality are you? They never have before and aren't likely to start now.
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Fifteen-hundred people went into the sea, when Titanic sank from under us. There were twenty boats floating nearby... and only one came back. One. Six were saved from the water, myself included. Six... out of fifteen-hundred. Afterward, the seven-hundred people in the boats had nothing to do but wait... wait to die... wait to live... wait for an absolution... that would never come.
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Grom, there is only one Titanic movie worth watching: A Night to Remember, starring Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, and Robert Ayres. Why did you think I referred to James Cameron haters?
Does the Cameron movie have a "Nearer My God to Thee" scene?
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[News Observer] Speaking to a Cary rotary club today, N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue suggested suspending Congressional elections for two years so that Congress can focus on economic recovery and not the next election.
Question: how can you tell when a Democrat is joking about suspending elections?
Answer: you can't.
"I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that," Perdue said. "You want people who don't worry about the next election."
In a completely unrelated and unscripted op-ed piece in The New Republic, President Obama's former budget director Peter Orszag calls for less democracy as a way out of our republic's 'gridlock'.
The comment -- which came during a discussion of the economy -- perked more than a few ears. It's unclear whether Perdue, a Democrat, is serious -- but her tone was level and she asked others to support her on the idea.
Remember when the progressives were all aflutter over the mere suggestion -- by them, of course -- that the eeeeeeeevil George W. Bush would suspend democracy in our country? Never happened, of course, since Dubya was the best of patriots. But here we have two influential Democrats, Orszag and Perdue, coming out for less democracy, and only Drudge and the usual conservative blogs are calling them on it. I smell a rat.
Later Tuesday afternoon, Perdue's office clarified the remarks: "Come on," said spokeswoman Chris Mackey in a statement. "Gov. Perdue was obviously using hyperbole to highlight what we can all agree is a serious problem: Washington politicians who focus on their own election instead of what's best for the people they serve."
Ah, those Democrats, always kidding and joking around when it comes to taking away power from ordinary citizens and putting it all into the ends of an unelected elite...
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"You want people who don't worry about the next election."
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The Democrats have never really liked elections, at least fair ones.
o Lincoln was elected -- and before he was even sworn into office, Democrats were declaring secession.
o Democrats lost the war, slaves are freed and given the vote -- so Democrats founded the KKK to terrorize anyone who votes against them. Some of the southern states had what were arguably coups against their elected, Republican governments.
o After the 2000 election, the Democrats did everything they could -- including inarguable acts of treason -- to undermine the presidency of George W. Bush. You can (justifiably) blame Bush for not defending himself and his people and policies enough, but the charges against them were lies.
I wouldn't be shocked if Obama's election loss next year was followed by Democrat strangleholds strongholds, making noises about secession.
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A congressman shouldn't worry about election. They are elected based on their judgement. They should continue doing what they do and not try to guess the whims of the voters and not try to do the rounds every week hoping to lie and impress the voters.
Congressional districts are small. Do your job, be held accountable. Have a town hall to get the word out to the people about what you've done and let them judge you on it.
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Funny how the Democrats were the ones screaming Bush was gonna bring back the draft when it was Democrats that actually put together legislation to bring back the draft.
They don't get called on their nonsense enough adn unfortunately i think a lot of Americans don't know about the duality that's nearly as bad as the Palestinians two-language double-talk.
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Funny how the Democrats are the ones who want less democracy. Maybe they should change the name of their little party to something that would give people a better idea of what they really want.
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Newest add against Gov. Perdue includes the motto "Vote, before you lose the right".
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It's all right to laugh at Perdue and Orszag, but I'd keep my powder dry, and my ammo handy. Obama KNOWS he's going down, and he won't take it well. I don't know what could happen, but it very well could get nasty. VERY nasty.
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Since the current congress cannot even pass a budget or spend 1 dollar less on any particular program I think a real knee slapper of a joke would be to have the election next month.
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The Democrats think of the Constitution as an inconvenient impediment to their ruling. What Perdue said could be translated into "We might just lose control of the Senate and more seats in the House in the 2012 election."
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BTW, I swore my OATH also to the Officers appointed above me and my Commander in Chief. As a Civilian,
I AM OVER him.
He should "chill out" and forget his method of conquest right now. Yet his heart has been hardened. Sure method to destruction for such an idol worse-shipper is to not take advice from the Jews on THIS new year.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The data process used to arrive at the administration's determination that greenhouse gases endanger "the public health and welfare" violated the Environmental Protection Agency's own peer review procedure, a new report from the EPA Office of the Inspector General reveals.
During an appearance on Morning Joe, Tuesday, Newsweek editor Tina Brown made an off-hand remark about Barack Obama, conceding that the politician "wasn't ready" to be President. Brown has previously attacked Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives for daring to oppose the Obama
[News Observer] Speaking to a Cary rotary club today, N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue suggested suspending Congressional elections for two years so that Congress can focus on economic recovery and not the next election.
