Bush Administration Claims CO2 Is Not A Poolutant
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The Supreme Court in Washington is in sitting this week to hear arguments in a case that could determine whether the Bush administration must change course in how it deals with the threat of global warming.
The case is Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, 05-1120.
A dozen states as well as environmental groups and large cities are trying to convince the court that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate, as a matter of public health, the amount of carbon dioxide that comes from vehicles.
Despite evidence that CO2 is a major cause of the greenhouse gasses that create global warming; the Bush administration intends to argue before the court that the EPA lacks the power under the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant. The agency contends that even if it did have such authority, it would have discretion under the law on how to address the problem without imposing emissions controls.
The states, led by Massachusetts, and more than a dozen environmental groups insist the 1970 law makes clear that carbon dioxide is a pollutant -- much like lead and smog-causing chemicals -- that is subject to regulation because its poses a threat to public health.
A sharply divided federal appeals court ruled in favor of the government in 2005. But last June, the Supreme Court decided to take up the case, plunging for the first time into the politically charged debate over global warming. The ruling (expected early next year) will be one of the court's most important ever involving the environment.
At issue for now is pollution from automobiles. But the ruling may also indirectly affect how the agency deals with carbon dioxide that comes from electric power plants as well.
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I lived in Nevada when I was old enough to get my driver's license, and aside from ridiculous taxes due at registration, one had to provide a smog certificate to prove the automobile being registered could pass the emissions test. Smog tests were required in Oklahoma, too. I found it quite odd when I moved to Kentucky and realized that wasn't required at all. I thought it was mandatory for all states.
Sadly, Bush has no vision for anything other than his own personal agenda, but his consequences are felt by all.
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It's not much different here in Oz, except of course less cars and younger country... but it's getting hazy here too, believe me.. we'll catch up pretty fast if things aren't done... we must push that our elective repesentatives have 'green agendas' and policies or not vote for them... really... we cannot hide from this any longer... on either continent...
We have silly things like that here too between the different states... probably not so confusing as we only have about 7 the last time I looked... I can't imagine crossing 50 (or is it 51 now...I thought there was another one recently...)...?
It's no good, either way you look at it and the Kyoto has to be made madatory with the Carbon Credits System made to impact on existing economies, not just the new ones like China.
What gets me is how they can say it's not a pollutant in the face of facts!
Reminds me of Camels in the Desert *lol*
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If you get what I mean...
Well, obvious isn't it? How can they say that CO2 is dangerous when they sent missles and bombs over Afghanistan in Iraq in 2002?
CO2 may be the food sources for trees that converts to O2 during photosynthesis but when it comes to smoke -> cloudy haze -> no sun. How will the photosynthesis continue?
Hence the greenhouse effect begins.
Great minds, eh?
*SMILES*
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Yeah I know... I'm starting to see camels everywhere I look now *guffawa*
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I was asking the same thing... how can anyone get away with it and we [the people] continue to call ourselves 'intelligent' and pride ourselves daily on our intelligence... *humpf*
Too much CO2 and the trees cannot breathe out again in Autumn... like smokers lungs they are choking... it seems that each spring when they breathe in globally, they're getting more and more of this 'non-existant' pollution and breathing out less and less each autumn... something like that... ooh and the fact that there's less and less trees each year... they're dissapearing at about six football fields per SECOND!!!
Jessica... I'm doing a No 1 right now...*lol*
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Hence air-purifier is invented.
And to think that once US was insisting that Malaysia stop logging (when we are having re-planting plans at the same time) so that the air is there, and what did the former prime minister said?
"You should plant your own trees as well, or should you start buying O2 from us?"
I vaguely remembered a remark like that... but can't be entirely accurate.
The bottom line is. Everyone has an equal responsibility to preserve nature at its best.
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The true answer is, there's something wrong with our eyesight. Must be.
Pollution is no worry, is it?
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quite right... that's just some sort of condensation on my reading glasses...or, it's just another cycle playing itself out... nothing to worry about - whilst this is probably true... one wonders why it has to be 'played out' 2-3,000 years ahead of time?
*humpf*
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I certainly will, I have much hope that a precedent will indeed be set as common sense prevails that we cannot all fit on the space station if the time comes too soon!
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