Blame the EPA study on Dubya

Blame the EPA study on Dubya

It is going to be entertaining to see how conservative Republicans, the Moonies, Fox News and other global warming naysayers wiggle out of this.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a new report last week confirming what a Penn State professor, vilified by the GOP's lunatic fringe, said about global warming being the result of industrial and other man-made pollution.

The fun part of the EPA report is that much of its study of global warming data culminated under the auspices of the far right's darling, President George W. Bush.

The report has been widely ignored by news media. I learned of it only because of an e-mail letter from the Project on Climate Science (a pinko outfit if ever there was one, supported by sinister organizations like the World Wildlife Fund and the United Nations Foundations). Maybe the PCS put me on its mailing list because I unabashedly support Penn State Professor Michael Mann and his research on global warming, and that is mainly because I recognize his detractors for what they are.

The PCS letter, from spokeswoman Laura Gross, said the EPA report "confirms the dramatic changes in the climate over the past several decades" and shows how those changes are the result of greenhouse gases belched into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels (gas, oil, coal) in transportation, electrical generation and other industrial activity.

"These reports come on the heels of the recent exoneration of the climate scientists who were targeted by the hacked e-mails from the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia University," Gross said. <...>

"Over the last several decades," the EPA report says, "evidence of human influences on climate change has become increasingly clear and compelling." It cites "indisputable evidence that human activities such as electricity production and transportation are adding to the concentrations of greenhouse gases that are already naturally present in the atmosphere. These heat-trapping gases are now at record-high levels ... compared with the recent and distant past."

This is not Mann, or Al Gore, talking. It is an extensive federal study advanced when the executive branch was safely in the hands of the lunatic fringe's guy.

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-pc_5global-paul-carpenter-global-warming.72633,0,1735098.column

It is an extensive federal study advanced when the executive branch was safely in the hands of the lunatic fringe's guy.


that cracks me up.