The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, mandated by Congress to review such proposals, asserted Friday that the standards put forward by EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson ignored most of the committee's earlier recommendations and could lead to additional heart attacks, lung cancer and respiratory ailments....
It was the first time since the committee was established under the Clean Air Act nearly 30 years ago that the committee had asked the EPA to change course, according to EPA staffers and committee members.
"We're in uncharted waters here," acknowledged committee Chairwoman Rogene Henderson, an inhalation toxicologist. She said their action was necessary because "the response of the administrator is unprecedented in that he did not take our advice. It's most unusual for him not to take the advice of his own science advisory body."
See "
EPA Panel Advises Agency Chief to Think Again" in the Los Angeles Times.
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The world is real but it is not vulnerable to so-called man-made climate change. We can drive our cars around for eons and not produce the pollution of one volcanic eruption. All of the records we break now are records that date back to when there were no cars, industrial plants, etc.
If you want real science, look at the global warming that's taking place on other planets in the solar system including Jupiter. I didn't know that the Bush administration was polluting Jupiter. Also look at the recent solar activity and the record X-Class solar flares that we've been experiencing for the past several years.
It's funny that when President Clinton signed on to the Kyoto protocol, not one Senator including Paul Wellstone voted to approve Kyoto.
The real fantasy world is found in a group of anti-capitalist people who want the U.S. to ration energy and diminish our standard of living and economic authority.
You made my point when you mentioned the words "scientific consensus." In other words, scientists cannot prove global warming is caused by man and there are many scientists who do not agree that so-called global warming or global climate change, to be specific, may not be caused by the activities of man.
Assuming for the sake of this argument that you're correct, you jump to the false conclusion that it's Bush's fault. Clinton didn't do anything about climate change -- climate change didn't just start on Jnauary 20, 2001 when Bush came to office. And the Kyoto protocol exempts the world's worst polluters: China, India, Mexico, etc.
By the way, read this article from the BBC for more information: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/358953.stm
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