White House Plans to Push 'Global Warming' Policy, GOP Vows Fight...

White House Plans Global Warming Fight
(NewsCore) - After failing to get Climate Change Legislation through Congress, the Obama Administration plans on pushing through its environmental policies through other means, and Republicans were prepared Tuesday to put up a fight. On Jan. 2, new Carbon Emissions limits will be put forward as the Environmental Protection Agency prepares Regulations that would force companies to get permits to release Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act. Critics said the new rules were a backdoor effort to...

After Record Blizzard, WH Vows to Push Global Warming Policy
After failing to get climate-change Legislation through Congress, the Obama Administration plans on pushing through its environmental policies through other means, and Republicans are ready to put up a fight. On Jan. 2, new Carbon Emissions limits will be put forward as the Environmental Protection Agency prepares regulations that would force companies to get permits to release Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act. Critics say the new rules are a backdoor effort to enact the president's agen...

More Republican regress on global warming
MORE REPUBLICAN REGRESS ON Global Warming.... It's disheartening enough that rejection of Climate Science has become a benchmark of Republicans' ideology. It adds insult to injury to see how quickly the party's perspective is regressing. It was, after all, literally just a few years ago that plenty of Republicans were willing to take the threat and the science seriously. GOP Presidential Candidates like John McCain and Mike Huckabee not only acknowledged Climate Change, they both endorsed cap-...

Rep. Upton Takes on EPA
Yahoo! Buzz Rep. Fred Upton, the incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, wants to block the Environmental Protection Agency from issuing new emissions standards for oil refineries and coal-fired Power Plants. The Michigan Republican called the new emissions standards “an Unconstitutional power grab that will kill millions of jobs – unless Congress steps in” – in an op-ed in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal. His call-to-arms comes less than a week after...

EPA does energy
In the 1960s, America began to notice that its environment was a mess. Rivers caught fire, smog enveloped many big cities, and DDT was cutting a major swath through the bird population. So 40 years ago, Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). No great Environmentalist he, but Nixon knew an onrushing political freight train when he saw one. Looking back at its first 40 years, EPA has been remarkably successful in cleaning up this environmental mess. The Aspen Institute ...

House Republican calls on Congress to delay EPA climate rules until court resolves issue
The incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is calling on lawmakers to come to a “Bipartisan Compromise” to pass Legislation that would delay the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse Gas Emissions until the courts resolve a number of Lawsuits on the issue. In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal Tuesday, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), who will chair the energy panel next year, called efforts to delay EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse

I've Seen This Movie Before, Mr. President. I Don't Think You'll Like The Ending
Recently, the EPA announced that it intends to implement and enforce "Cap and Trade" Regulation of Carbon Emissions on the several states, after Congress failed to pass a law explicitly grant them that authority. This comes on the heels of the FCC deciding it had the authority to regulate the Internet, again after Congress failed to pass a law explicitly grant them that authority. Now, it must be remembered that the EPA and the FCC, like all other agencies of the federal Bureaucracy, are part ...

New at Reason: Ronald Bailey on the New Scheme for Carbon Emissions
The Obama Administration and the Congressional Democrats failed to get their massive cap-and-trade carbon Rationing scheme adopted. Plan B is now operative: Interpret the Clean Air Act such that the Environmental Protection Agency can impose greenhouse gas regulations and limits without bothering to get approval from Congress. Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey worries that Plan B may be so odious that Plan A will look good by comparison. View this article. ...

Terry Tamminen: He'll Be Back
Given Arnold Schwarzenegger's legendary achievements in bodybuilding and movies, expectations were high in his seven years as Governor. His legacy as arguably the greenest chief executive in our country's history will rival Mr. Universe titles and Box Office championships, not only because of what he accomplished, but also how he got things done. On land, for example, he enlisted two shrewd legislators (Republican Tim Leslie and Democrat John Laird) to structure a bi-partisan Compromise that ...

The Immortal Tyranny Of Climate Change
Thomas Sowell wrote yesterday of the effort to secretly re-introduce the ObamaCare “Death Panels” through Regulation as an “end run around the Constitution.” Here’s another one, and it’s even bigger: a year after the Climagate Scandal decisively exposed the Fraud of Global Warming, and acting in the face of a new Republican House that does not look kindly on Climate Change flim-flams, the Obama Administration is preparing to enforce their ideology through EP...

The EPA goes after carbon
The Clean Air Act turned 40 this year, as did the Environmental Protection Agency, which was created to enforce that new law and others Congress adopted to reduce all types of Pollution. But it has taken this many years for the EPA to begin flexing its regulatory muscles to reduce emissions of Carbon Dioxide, the principle culprit linked to Climate Change. For many years the agency claimed that the Clean Air Act didn't authorize it to regulate carbon dioxide. But in 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Happenings In Global Warming Land
This is a big problem for those who see human-caused Global Warming as an irreversible result of the Industrial Revolution’s reliance on carbon-based fuels. Based on Global Warming theory — and according to official weather forecasts made earlier in the year — this winter should be warm and dry. It’s anything but. Ice and snow cover vast parts of both Europe and North America, in one of the Coldest Decembers in history. A cautionary tale? You bet. Prognosticators who wrot...

Regulation Without Representation Alive and Well in Washington
Decisions made in Washington that affect every aspect of the lives of Americans, from the kind of cars we can drive to what type of light bulb we can put in our homes, are increasingly being made by individuals that never stand for election. This Regulation without representation has concentrated power in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government where countless Bureaucrats write reams of regulations that not only interpret existing federal law but also add new requirements that were never...

When Cooling Becomes Warming
Posted by Rich Trzupek on Dec 29th, 2010 and filed under FrontPage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. Were the stakes not so serious, the continuing efforts of Global Warming apologists to explain every climate condition using their pet theory would be comical. Unfortunately, and despite the death of Cap and Trade, the Climate Change crowd has already been very successful in undercutting...

EPA issues compact fluorescent guidelines
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it has updated its guidance on how properly to clean up and dispose of a broken compact fluorescent lamp. CFLs contain a small amount of mercury sealed within the glass tubing. If a CFL breaks, some of the mercury is released as vapor and may pose potential health risks, the EPA said in a release Wednesday. In case of breakage of a CFL, EPA guidelines recommend people and pets leave the room and allow the room to air out ...

Obama under pressure to deliver on climate
Jan. 2 isn't your ordinary Sunday. It's the day the Obama Administration will officially start regulating greenhouse Gas Emissions, and critics have issued dire predictions of economic destruction. With all the fiery Rhetoric about how damaging the regulations could be, the White House is under pressure to fulfill its vow to tackle Climate Change while avoiding the appearance it's hindering job growth. GOP lawmakers have already launched a series of efforts to hamstring the Environmental Protect...

Yes, Virginia, global warming causes more extreme snowstorms--and other surprises
Most Global Warming doesn't register in land temperatures, where most of our attention is focused. It registers in the heating up of Earth's oceans: This chart from "An observationally based energy balance for the Earth since 1950" is just one of multiple different lines of evidence & argument used to refute the Global Warming deniers false claim that the planet has been cooling since 1998 at the "Skeptical Science" website. I grabbed the graphic because it's an arresting lead-in to the glob...

Energy and global warming news for December 29: The full list of profitable publicly-held fuel cell firms; New wind-turbine can
Year-End Reflections on the Fuel Cell Industry in 2010:  GreenTechMedia’s never-changing ’short’ list of profitable fuel cell firms…. First, here’s an updated list of the top three profitable publicly-held fuel cell firms: 1. 2. 3. The not-profitable list is a bit longer and includes: FuelCell Energy (NASDAQ:FCEL) reported revenue of $69.8 million in 2010 compared to $88.0 million for the comparable prior year. Net loss for the year was $58.9 million. FuelCell En...

MSNBCs Countdown Slams Right-Wing Views On Global Warming As Ignorant
Countdown guest host Sam Seder tonight tackled Global Warming, an issue that predictably popped back up into the national consciousness in the wake of this weekend’s blizzard in the Northeast U.S. Seder, also predictably, viewed attacks on global warming science as faulty, and brought on conservation biologist Reese Halter to make this point - but not before providing a…unique explanation himself. Seder’s explanation centered around a “weather report” from Cou...

ABCs Harris: Climate Scientists Embattled by Controversial Skeptics Despite Compelling Evidence of Global Warming
Harris related that, "despite all that compelling evidence" of Global Warming, climate scientists "feel more embattled than ever," taking heat from "politicians on the right." He even went so far as to highlight examples of reported harassment of climate scientists, including anti-Semitic insults. Corbyn is now predicting a mini ice age in the coming years. However, the vast, vast majority of climate scientists disagree and say, if you like this year’s extreme...

Yep, Two Feet of Global Warming
To those of you up to your actual ass in snow, cheer up. This ain’t a new ice age. Nope, it is Global Warming. Don’t believe me? Well, if Time magazine says it is so it must be true: It’s become as much a winter tradition as eggnog at Christmas and champagne on New Year’s Eve — the first major snowstorm of the year bringing out the climate-change skeptics. And the bona fide blizzard that has frozen much of the Northeast just a few days after winter officially began def...

Actual Time Mag Headline: Holiday Blizzard: More Signs of Global Warming
One theory is that a warmer Arctic may actually lead to colder and snowier winters in the northern mid-latitudes. Even as countries like Britain — suffering through the coldest December on record — deal with low temperatures and unusual snow, the Arctic has kept on warming, with Greenland and Arctic Canada experiencing the hottest year on record. Temperatures in that region have been 5.4°F to 7.2°F (3°C to 4°C) above normal in 2010. As a result, the Arctic sea-ice...

TIME Magazine Joins Junk Scientists: Global Warming Caused Northeast Blizzard
Workers clear snow from the runways at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey December 27, 2010. A blizzard pummeled the northeastern United States on Monday, burying cities in knee-deep snow, leaving thousands camped at airports and snarling traffic with blowing snow and icy roads at the end of the busy Christmas weekend. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson) TIME is the latest Far Left media outlet to insist that the record-setting blizzard in the northeast is a sign of Global Warming cl...

The Problem with the Global Warming Cassandras
This week, the northeast got a snowstorm. Cities throughout the region got between 3 inches and one foot or more of snow. So yesterday, Newspapers and Cable Television produced the usual crowd of people claiming that this was evidence of Global Warming. The same thing happened earlier this year when California had hot temperatures in September. The same thing happens every year down here in the South, when weather forecasters predict that we will have more and bigger hurricanes than ever before...

A push to make air travel more environmentally friendly
More than 43 million Americans are expected to fly over the winter holidays, and among them were many conflicted eco-conscious travelers. Airplanes release huge quantities of Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere, which contributes to Global Warming. "I do fly, and I feel very guilty about it," said Nadine Mellor, 44, of San Francisco. "I try to lead a low-carbon lifestyle - we don't own a car, and as a family we're making a conscious effort to reduce our Carbon Emissions. But my family lives in th...