Religion and dissent
A draft report from the National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE) of the US Environmental Protection Agency:
The EPA’s management’s response to the report:
Environmentalism is a religion of sorts, and an unreformed religion at that. (Those sorts of believers are capable of endless trouble, as we all know.) Chief among its sins is man-made global warming — allegedly caused by CO2′s teeny-tiny increase — for which America must be punished. No matter that China and India are the major contributors to increases at this point. In the Obama administration, Gaia must be served and dissent is clearly not welcome. HT: Powerline
We understand that all administrations want to speak with a coherent voice, and controlling the bureaucracies is one element of that, but any bill that is (a) a “huge tax” according to Warren Buffett; (b) paradoxically also a “jobs bill” according to Obama; and (c) something that is needed to “save our planet” in Obama’s words deserves full and open debate — not evidence of the crass suppression of opposing views.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Monday morning links…
The Gernam concentration camp brothels
More on the EPA quashing their own climate skeptical report. More details at Dino.
White House: "not ruling out" middle class tax hike"
From Mankiw in the NYT, who says the gummint could make it…
June 29th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
The EPA lady was just on CNBC … Joe challenged her on “the science is settled”, she brushed it off with “well there will always be those that say …”
She also said the 35 mpg requirement would put US “well on our way toward independence” from imported oil, which seems total baloney, to me. Some indicate it will INCREASE imported refined oil, since US refiners will be hamstrung with extra carbon credit taxes.
She surely knows she is lying and CANNOT face any real scientific debate. As long as most people are drinking the Kool-Aid and taking the “Hopium”, she won’t have to.
I’d say by now the majority of scientists by far, do NOT believe the science is settled at all, and indications are that CO2 is not causal.
Even IF it was causal, our silly cap n tax scheme would have next to no impact.
But this is indeed treated not as science, but as a feel good action to those that support it, and a premeditated fraud by those that profit from it. Billions will be wasted/stolen, as the politicians have another way to distribute credits to their pals and the Goldman Sachs boyz rake in huge profits in making that market.