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June 26, 2009

An untimely and inconvenient truth: CEI Releases Global Warming Study Censored by EPA

Topics: Global Warming, Political News and commentaries

The CEI report is both untimely and inconvenient - as Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats off-load economics to attempt to fast-tracking (meaning it will not be read or debated) through the House their 1,201 page climate change bill (HR 2454) that will give activists, courts and bureaucrats control over virtually every aspect of our lives, and as the WSJ says, will impose crushing costs on businesses and consumers:

Via the WSJ:

[...] The hit to GDP is the real threat in this bill. The whole point of cap and trade is to hike the price of electricity and gas so that Americans will use less. These higher prices will show up not just in electricity bills or at the gas station but in every manufactured good, from food to cars. Consumers will cut back on spending, which in turn will cut back on production, which results in fewer jobs created or higher unemployment. Some companies will instead move their operations overseas, with the same result.

The CEI report suppressed by the Environmental Protection Agency:

[...] Internal EPA email messages, released by CEI earlier in the week, indicate that the report was kept under wraps and its author silenced because of pressure to support the Administration's agenda of regulating carbon dioxide.

The report finds that EPA, by adopting the United Nations' 2007 "Fourth Assessment" report, is relying on outdated research and is ignoring major new developments. Those developments include a continued decline in global temperatures, a new consensus that future hurricanes will not be more frequent or intense, and new findings that water vapor will moderate, rather than exacerbate, temperature.

New data also indicate that ocean cycles are probably the most important single factor in explaining temperature fluctuations, though solar cycles may play a role as well, and that reliable satellite data undercut the likelihood of endangerment from greenhouse gases. All of this demonstrates EPA should independently analyze the science, rather than just adopt the conclusions of outside organizations.

Will this report change any minds in Washington? Dumb question. If data doesn't fit the Democrats' agenda, it's simply ignored. Yet the cap-and-tax bill will give activists, bureaucrats, and courts control over virtually every aspect of our lives forever, and cost all of us much much more than the Dems are promising.

Related:
Hugh Hewitt:Cap and Tax (and Tax and Tax and Tax)
Boehner on Speaker Pelosi's National Energy Tax: "I Have Never Seen Anything This Ridiculous"

Posted by Richard at June 26, 2009 8:50 AM

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