Wed, Aug 26, 2009
The Eco-Fight Rages On
Are you tired of the political fighting over global warming?
We're told by environmentalists that (a) global warming is real,
and (b) everybody knows it's caused by humans. The other side says
(a) global warming is a hoax or based on a limited historical
perspective, and (b) scientists with dissenting views are forced to
shut up or lose government research grants.
Well now, the LA Times reports the US Chamber of Commerce is
pushing to force the Environmental Protection Agency to hold public
hearings on the validity of the science, before using the premise
of man-made climate change as a basis to impose regulations which
could severely impact US businesses.
William Kovacs, the chamber's senior VP for environment, technology
and regulatory affairs tells the paper, "It would be evolution
versus creationism. It would be the science of climate change on
trial."
The EPA has another description - a waste of time. Spokesman
Brendan Gilfillan says the agency's stand that global warming is a
danger to public health is based, "...on the soundest peer-reviewed
science available, which overwhelmingly indicates that climate
change presents a threat to human health and welfare."
The two sides can't even agree on
whether the effects would be bad or good. EPA says global warming
will bring us more frequent heat waves, wildfires, degraded air
quality and an increase in both droughts and floods. The chamber
cites studies that predict higher temperatures will actually reduce
mortality rates.
This could get interesting.
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