After Environmental Protection Agency Chief Stephen Johnson's appearance before Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's powerless House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, CBS decided to dole out its own criticism of the EPA.
The March 13 "CBS Evening News" reported the EPA had not lived up to the obligations of an April 2007 Supreme Court ruling.
"Congressional Democrats took the gloves off against the EPA today, accusing the agency's chief, Stephen Johnson, of stalling all regulation on global warming," CBS correspondent Wyatt Andrews said. "Johnson knew this reckoning was coming. Despite his own promise to issue new regulations last year, despite a Supreme Court order 11 months ago for the EPA to act on greenhouse gases, and despite the president's own order last May."
Andrews' assessment of the decision is not quite correct. According to an editorial in the March 14 Wall Street Journal, the Supreme Court did not "order" the EPA to act on greenhouses gases. It only granted the authority.
"The Supreme Court did not require the EPA to change its position on CO2, only to justify it within the scope of the Clean Air Act," the Journal said. "In fact, the Court said the agency could defer a judgment because the science is complex and still evolving. But Mr. Johnson's waiver decision welds shut that escape hatch - and he's still getting pounded by Democrats."
The CBS report also included incendiary remarks from one congressman in the hearing who is a proponent of regulating greenhouses gases.
"You're the fireman and the planet's on fire right now and you don't pick up a hose?" Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) said. "You do nothing. Your administration has done nothing about this."
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just like air bags
March 14, 2008 - 17:03 ET by wizardjrThis is going to wind up just like air bags. When its all over there will be dead people because of it. The Congress is in a huge hurry to legislate the economy into oblivion for a non-problem over a trace gas that is the result of a warming planet not the cause of it.
This will be worse than air
March 14, 2008 - 17:32 ET by danboThis will be worse than air bags. A closer one is the ban on DDT. Which lead to the deaths of over 96 million. Probably worse.
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
DNC- BS
March 14, 2008 - 17:04 ET by mattmIt one thing to get it wrong, but CBS is, in true exemplary MSM tradition, not merely getting things wrong, they're actually trumpeting the Democrat position.
the Democrat position
March 14, 2008 - 17:16 ET by needle…they're actually trumpeting the Democrat position.
Actually trumpeting??? How do we know with any certainty that Nancy did not write their script for them?
Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.
New record.
March 14, 2008 - 17:23 ET by ScrapironThe democrat controlled congress has set a new record. It only took them 14 months to destroy an economy that boomed for 6 years. Put the enviroment in their hands and you can learn the old trick used when attacked by nuclear weaplons. Bend over, put your head between your legs and kiss your A$$ goodbye.
Old, Retired and glad of it.
Thanks Nixon
March 14, 2008 - 18:11 ET by RESTLESS 1Ahh, the EPA. Seemed like such a good idea that the time. However, over time, the dems and liberal kooks like the Sierra Club, have used this agency time and time again to take property rights away from owners. I'm glad Johnson is dragging his feet. He is probably saving us a ton from the unintended consequences of good deeds.
What do they say about good intentions?
Dan Rather and Mary Mapes proved it
March 14, 2008 - 18:34 ET by c5thenThe MSM are not incompetent nor do they get things wrong by mistake as much as they do. It's on purpose, to forward an agenda that they fully back.
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.
Goofy
March 14, 2008 - 18:36 ET by September"You're the fireman and the planet's on fire right now and you don't pick up a hose?" Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) said.
Damn that's funny. Planet's on fire?? That's sillier than Gore's "fever" comment.
I hear the sirens coming but they're not here to sound the alarm for AGW.
September... Inslee and
March 14, 2008 - 18:39 ET by bigtimerSeptember...
Inslee and all his ilk are nothing but a planetary emergency.
Maybe the EPA will ban Catalytic Converters?
March 14, 2008 - 19:17 ET by PopularTechShould we start cutting our Catalytic Converters off our cars since they go after real pollution and not the much more "deadly" CO2?
"CO2 for different people has different attractions. After all, what is it? - it’s not a pollutant, it’s a product of every living creature’s breathing, it’s the product of all plant respiration, it is essential for plant life and photosynthesis, it’s a product of all industrial burning, it’s a product of driving – I mean, if you ever wanted a leverage point to control everything from exhalation to driving, this would be a dream. So it has a kind of fundamental attractiveness to bureaucratic mentality."
- Richard S. Lindzen Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology MIT
The Kyoto Protocol is a treaty to regulate 'Greenhouse Gases' only:
- Carbon dioxide (CO2)
- Methane (CH4)
- Nitrous oxide (N2O) (Laughing Gas, Nitrous, NOS)
- Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
- Perfluorocarbons (PFCs)
- Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6)
Car Exhaust consists of:
Harmless:
- Carbon dioxide (CO2)
- Nitrogen (N2)
- Water vapor (H2O)
Some Pollutants:
- Carbon monoxide (CO) *
- Hydrocarbons or Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) *
- Nitric oxide (NO) *
- Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) *
- Particulate matter (PM-10) *
- Sulfur dioxide (SO2) *
* Your car's Catalytic Converter removes about 95% of these pollutants by converting them to Water and Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Smog consists of:
- Ozone (O3) * (formed from the photochemical reaction of Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) + Hydrocarbons)
- Particulate matter (PM-10) *
- Sulfur dioxide (SO2) *
* Air Pollution is already regulated in the: 1970 Clean Air Act (Amended: 1977, 1990)
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See BS and hear it too
March 14, 2008 - 23:11 ET by ExtirpaterThe Mostly Slanted Media [MSM] are at it again. Trying to create a stampede of stupidity,which they always lead.