Bush 'Intervened At The 11th Hour' To Kill Stronger Climate Protections

Think Progress:

Yesterday, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Stephen Johnson decided to modestly tighten smog standards, a decision directly "overruling the unanimous advice of its scientific advisory council for a more protective standard."

According to the LA Times, President Bush personally intervened to overrule EPA staff who were pushing to protect forests and crops:

Read the whole story: Think Progress

Comments

[karrezza]

Is part of this article missing?? I see it ending on crops: like it was going to have a video, or "read more" or something...

[Macready]

the sooner this piece of garbage is impeached the better . . .

[Tator]

EDIT: This winter is the coldest WORLDWIDE since 2001

[karrezza]

Is your point that global warming exists or doesnt? Because global warming means, the earth wont become one big warm place it will become a planet of extremities.. Very hot in places, and very cold in others and no inbetween

[VivaZapata]

don't try education on the petit pomme de terre; he's not having any of it. it's best to let him leave his ketchup droppings unwiped.

[frappe]

If only the Supreme Court in 2000 didn't intervene at the 11th hour to hand Bush the presidency, we would all be in a much, much stronger position today.

Bush's presidency has been a national nightmare.

[VivaZapata]

i'm just a lonely polar bear looking for a patch of ice. like most other creatures, human and otherwise, i wish i could get to washington and have that monkey impeached.

[realitytrumpsbull]

Ya know, I really don't see people clubbing each other to death like a bunch of helpless baby seals competing over that front teat to get those solar panels put in. Get em up, get em connected, windmills, small children on stationary bicycles belted to alternators on home-made brackets, having the electricity at your house disconnected, getting up off your fat butt to shut the lights/tv/Griswold christmas light display off, do something, or put a sock in it. Vote for Bert!

Bert08
Independent, Oregon

[Irons]

Wrong again, Mr. Potato Head.

[Felicty]

What else could we expect from this idiot?

Useless waste in the white house.

[WillPower]

Didn't global temperatures stop rising about the year 2000? Wasn't this winter the coldest in decades? Perhaps the global warming alarmists are wrong. Maybe we'll cool off for a while now.

[Birdman]

This winter wasn't the coldest. Yes some places had some cold weather followed by record warm days too. I fail to see why people such as yourself point to one day where gee it was 10 degress today, global warming is over, At the same time you ignore the fact that Glaciers world wide are retreating at records rates. Wake up, park your SUV, and try to take care of gift god gave to you.

[Tator]

NOAA just made you out to be a fool :) This year WORLDWIDE was indeed colder than any since 2001.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/03/13/global-warming-update-winter-2008-coldest-seven-years

[oneofsixbillion]

Global warming results in "climate destabilization".

[RogerHWerner]

Suffice to say, you're not a especially well read on the subject of global warmingand before you post a comment that makes you sound like a fool, you might consider reading something on the subject . One of the strange aspects of global warming is a decrease in temperature in some places. In case you missed, a chunk of ice the size of Rhode Island disappeared from Greenland last week and the week before, a large Greenland glacier melted over a period of weeks (this glacier should not have melted at all but the prediction was that it would melt over a few years owing to global warming). So no, global temperatures have not stopped rising. They continue to rise and this is especially noticeable in the polar regions. In certain areas, for example, the American Midwest, temperatures appear to be falling. In California, 2006 was the warmest year since record keeping began and I can personally attest to the fact that the West Coast continues to get hotter..

[Tator]

"Suffice to say, you're not a especially well read on the subject of global warmingand before you post a comment that makes you sound like a fool, you might consider reading something on the subject . One of the strange aspects of global warming is a decrease in temperature in some places"

Sorry to break it to you, but this winter is the coldest WORLDWIDE since 2001 and there have been 15 years where it has been warmer WORLDWIDE as for the US there have been 53 years warmer, so you keep telling yourself all the cold is because of global warming....you might want to get a bigger parka since many scientists are reporting we hit our warm peak a few years back and the Earth is starting to cool....

Don't worry though you can find another Religion.

[ChristianEcon.com]

"Didn't global temperatures stop rising about the year 2000?"

No, it didn't.

"Wasn't this winter the coldest in decades?

No, it wasn't.

"Perhaps the global warming alarmists are wrong. Maybe we'll cool off for a while now."

Or better yet, perhaps the people shooting spitballs from the back of the room at those doing the work could develop a sense of responsibility.

[ohiomark]

Good news Libs, global warming is over!!!!

http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

Looks like all your "good work" really did the trick. Can we go bak to driving our big SUV's now? We got 17 inches of snow with 3 foot drifts last weekend and it took me 4 hours to shovel out of my driveway.

Clean air and water is always a great idea, just don't try to convince me that we are changing the climate. It's not happening because of us. It just happens.

[BlackbirdHighway]

News Flash: Global wamring is a Global Phenomena. That's why it's called Global.

Your driveway is not the globe, so what happens there does not really represent what is going on over the entire globe.

Yes, it still snows in the wintertime. If it didn't, it would be too late to fix it,

[ohiomark]

Try reading the article. Temps are down across the globe. That's where they get the word "global" from, the GLOBE.

[karrezza]

Ditto to OhioMark... LOL, these are the followers of our world, Ohiomark and Tator must be siblings.

Wait, Ohio, when after the snow melts you wonder why you still have record heat come this summer, and are short on water because all the snow that melted did not create a water table but evaporated.

Clearly need to pull your head out of the sand which there will be plenty of, in a few years as the deserts grow

[lornejl]

dumbya is a good little fascist.

[dax49]

yet another story that won't be covered by fox news

[jnratliff]

Why not he has already been responsible for maybe a million deaths and four thousand Americans he doesn't give a shit if thousands more were to die from breathing dirty air. Hell they should of had the money to buy some tanks of oxygen. He does yours!

[CAPTAINSKIPPY]

Religion is no barrier for GWB; he just cannot resist trying out the new sins.

[dhb4u]

Fortunately, we have less than a year of this guy and then someone can clean up this administration's mess.

[andyboy]

The Oil barons and high powered execs at Exxon and BP are on speed dial to the President.

They orchestrate the price making sure it ebbs right around the time the the annual adjustment for inflation is made around September. This keeps the seniors increase in Social Security as low as possible. Now in March Oil is allowed to go through the roof so the raping can continue.