Go With The Flow
Over the last five years, the number of states that have adopted clean car standards has risen to thirteen, but EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson has cockblocked their legal right to implement these important standards.
While Johnson censors documents and silences scientists at the EPA, his deputy administrator, Marcus Peacock, is fooling around online.
Marcus is trying to improve “communication and transparency in government” through the use of a blog.
Wow. I thought Washington officials only used the Internet to score underage lovers.
In his Washington Post column last week, “Enough About Pollution Regulations; Here's a Riff on Amy Winehouse,” Al Kamen takes Peacock to task for glossing over key issues such as the clean car standards.
Peacock responded like a Washington Weasel:
I’m pretty senior and will be gone in a year. A good question is how do we encourage, rather than discourage, the rank and file in government to take risks and test innovative ideas?
Come on Marcus. *Pretty* is pushing it.
Please head over to the EPA’s blog and explain to Marcus that ignoring EPA scientists and analysts on an issue as central as global warming pollution from vehicles is not a way to “encourage risks and test innovative ideas.”
Not unless he bares his ass online or something.
Click here and you’ll be taken directly to the EPA’s blog, where you can voice your opinion directly to Marcus.
After you’ve commented, click here and send a copy of your comment to UCS. By giving UCS copies of your comments, they can make sure that the EPA is allowing an open online debate, not just trying to score women for Marcus, and they can post any great comments that get rejected by the EPA on UCS’s own HybridBlog.org!
The EPA’s blog is one of the few channels currently open for citizens to express themselves directly, and openly, to high-ranking EPA officials. Please take advantage of this opportunity to tell them what you think.
Fight the urge to ask for a date.
posted by kate @ 9:22 AM
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Clearing Land for Biofuels Makes Global Warming Worse
Growing crops to make biofuels may accelerate global warming, not slow down its effects, a new study says.
When farmers clear native ecosystems such as forests or grasslands to grow crops, this gives off substantial amounts of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas that fuels climate change.
Before these biofuels could reduce individual carbon dioxide emissions, they would first have to pay off this debt, which would take decades or centuries.
"I was surprised that with so many of the crops, it takes so long before you break even [on carbon emissions]," said study co-author David Tilman of the University of Minnesota in St. Paul. The university and the nonprofit group the Nature Conservancy conducted the study.
"I don't think we can afford to make biofuels if we have to wait 50 years for any benefit," he added.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080207-biofuels-carbon.html
David Suzuki has called for political leaders to be thrown in jail for ignoring the science behind climate change.
At a Montreal conference last Thursday, the prominent scientist, broadcaster and Order of Canada recipient exhorted a packed house of 600 to hold politicians legally accountable for what he called an intergenerational crime.
"What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act," said Dr. Suzuki, a former board member of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. "It's an intergenerational crime in the face of all the knowledge and science from over 20 years."
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/02/07/should-political-leaders-be-jailed-questioning-global-warming
Of course he claims he was just joking around. Bullshit.
Scratch a liberal, find a fascist.
This is probably more consideration than an anonymous tangential cut and paste comment deserves, but...
Growing crops to make biofuels may accelerate global warming, not slow down its effects, a new study says.
I'm on board with that. I'll even ratchet the danger up a couple of notches and say using food staple crops, in particular corn, puts the entire global food economy in dire jeopardy.
That's the exact reason why the new focus for those really interested in doing something about biofuels is on switchgrass, not destroying food staple crop farming.
Indeed, the only ones claiming corn and other food crops are the best sources for biofuel seem to be: Big Ag, like ADM, Cargill and Monsanto, because they want their share of federal corn subsidies as well as the tax credits grants and loans provided for in energy legislation passed in 2005 and 2007; Big Oil, because they're busy making sure they have a stranglehold on next-gen fuel sources; and the Bush Administration because they're interested in looting the country at any price.
So, this guys are all operating under the effluents?
Er, "these" guys. All right, maybe Calebism was right about the spell-check/grammar check.
Course we could require our vehicles to get more than 20 MPG, that would be nice. Yes, I have heard the studies on biofuel, doesn't sound promising to me.
As for David Suzuki, I agree with him. Why does it make him a fascist to want to see criminals in jail? The "in-crowd" knows what they are doing to the entire earth and yet they do it anyway for a few quid. They should all drop and give the world 20!
Suzuki has a long history of being dead wrong, as I recall he first came to public visibility due to spearheading the effort to keep the US from launching a deep space probe with radioisotopic batteries, since it would no doubt explode at the worst possible time and poison the entire northern hemisphere, which strangely does not seem to have happened, fortunately a majority of the people in the US Government at the time were sane.
I am quite sick of seeing him on every other science program, he is a total video whore and I can only assume the Canadian government must kick in grant money to producers who use him and enough other stray Canadian psuedo-scientists to qualify in their productions.
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