EPA: More Judicial Legislation/Execution
Looks like the prior EPA could do anything they wanted, but the new one is constrained.
Judges vote right down their party lines, "no" Clinton, "no", Obama, "yes" Bush.
Amazing that the EPA is being "required" to enforce the old rules. The Judicial Branch just gave the Obama administration another several months of control. I am shocked this can even have a day in court, much less succeed.
Judges vote right down their party lines, "no" Clinton, "no", Obama, "yes" Bush.
Amazing that the EPA is being "required" to enforce the old rules. The Judicial Branch just gave the Obama administration another several months of control. I am shocked this can even have a day in court, much less succeed.
news" than the statist propaganda arm, NPR.
This article is filled with lies and the purveyors should be fired for it
Stop all taxpayer funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
I just don't understand how the EPA can be sued such. It is like suing Ford to keep making the Tempo after it decided no to.
I can't believe there are still creatures upon this earth that are terrified about a very, very, very small part of our atmosphere, much less allowed to do their evil damage to our environment, our farm animals and our business, at our expense, for a few more months.
My reading of it is that the Senate voted to keep the rules in place, EPA wanted to delay implementation, and the court said the delays were unreasonable. The article is ambiguous because it says the EPA "crafted" the rules and the Senate voted to keep them. It does not explain how the EPA crafted the rules but cannot re-craft them. If it really is up to Congress and not agencies to make these rules, then the court ruling makes perfect sense.
The powers of the EPA were established long ago, and they are Executive Powers. None of the decisions in question are administration of law. They are administration of the powers given to the Executive Branch by the act that form d the EPA. What business does the Judicial Branch have in limiting the powers of one administration against another? Also, are the biases of the justices not concerning?
I think greenhouse grasses are an important property rights issue. There needs to be some legal vehicle to make people pay for their emissions, as surely as they're responsible for anything else they do on their property that decreases the value of their neighbors' property. The vehicle, though, obviously shouldn't rest on breaking the law. The justices need to obey the law. People need to elect representatives who will take global warming seriously, not as a artifice to promote socialism or to get rednecks fired up, but actually tax emissions in a revenue-neutral way so the market finds a solution.
Where you and I depart is the hypothesis that measurable warming is attributable to human emissions. There just is no physical evidence, only circumstantial correlation. The first order greenhouse effect from any of these gasses is simply far too low to cause what people assert the warming is. This is a measurable, calculable effect Any climate scientist will eventually acknowledge this, perhaps begrudgingly. The only way this is attributable to greenhouse gasses is if there is another multiplicative effect that we don't know, such as CO2 causing water vapor to form, ALL models correlating to the temperature outcome include such an effect. However, none of this is anything but gross hypothesis. The physics behind it is totally unknown.
What does this mean? By its sound, that phrase is the very opposite of what I'm saying.
"the hypothesis that measurable warming is attributable to human emissions."
It's gone well past hypothesis and into theory. We don't know how much change and when, but we know it's significant. To deal with it, we have to quantify the effect and the the costs, and then amortize those costs back to a present value. We don't have numbers for any of that, just probability distribution functions of what the numbers might be. We don't even know what interest rate to use in the amortization calculation. The costs of avoiding the emissions isn't fixed either. They will decrease in unpredictable ways as the technologies mature.
And related to your point, there is always the chance that surprising new discoveries will come along and show we made the changes for nothing, similar to when people switched from butter to margarine only to find out later that butter is more healthful.
There is NO Physics-based cause-effect between human emissions and global warming. You are pointing out that there is warming (which is lowing considerably), but you have no case for action to resolve it.
That is correct. I have seen no analysis that breaks down estimated costs of the warming and the costs of reducing carbon emissions. My non-scientific guess is geo-engineering will be the best approach. The reason is even a radical reduction in emission only puts a dent in the anthropogenic component of warming. It obviously does not address the natural cycle of glacial maxima/minima. Suppose human activities account for 60% of global warming and we radically cut greenhouse activities by 60%. That's solves a third of the costs-- not that great. Unfortunately geo-engineering does not exist, so pricing the cost of emissions is all we have. My hope is that efforts to tax this hard-to-quantify involuntary servitude will result in breakthroughs in geo-engineering or alternative energy. I'm fixated on geo-engineering because billions of us living an affluent lifestyle and causing a mass extinction event is bound to incur costs in various forms. Intuitively, I feel like humankind should't be stuck on one planet and dependent on the vagaries of its environment.
That's a lot of guessing, hopes, and feelings. I am not aware of a solid plan of action. I suspect the difficult nature of it is what leads people to deny the problem.
I don't need to banter with an nine year old.
I do not get the church analogy. I thought you're casting modern science in the role of the medieval church, and you're casting people who reject the unpopular findings of science in the role of Galileo. Assuming I understand right, you're saying the roles have reversed since the time of Galileo
In any case, we're far from what you asked yesterday, probably because I got confused by the church analogy. You said I have no solution to deal with the costs of global warming. I said you are correct about that. I shared some unscientific gut-feeling predictions.
The church analogy seems 180 degrees reversed, viewing science as a religious/political subject and viewing the political repercussions of science as science.
The church analogy was because you "believe" what some scientists and a lot of media and most politicians say, but you do not examine the details. Belief is religion, not science.
What you continue to claim is science is certainly not science based on the media and politicians, and what is really known among any scientists is far from what most people (seemingly including you) believe it is.
I went through an evolution over my life of how I think about science and religion. I still don't have it down, still evolving. I never believed in religion, but I used to think science was closer to religion because of the biases of the scientists and influence of patronage. I used to be closer to post modernism. Now I think of those biases as human foibles to be avoided when possible. I feel like I still have a very superficial understanding of epistemology. I'm certainly not trying to taunt.
If you change belief to accept, your statement is correct. I accept scientific findings. If there were a conspiracy among scientists in some field, they could pull one over on me. If they are just wrong, e.g. margarine being more healthful than butter, I would accept something that's wrong. I would have accepted that craniometry wrongly finding people of European descent had more brain volume. I don't call it belief, though, because I'm eager to accept new evidence that contradicts the previous understanding.
If accepting the current scientific understanding is "religion", I'm a "religious" person. If going through papers outside your field looking for a way to reach a desired conclusion is "science", I am anti-"science" and for "religion". I put them all in scare quotes because our definitions of science and religion are differently, almost reversed.
"Outside your field"? Laughable. I learned a long time ago, that if someone can't explain something to me in a way I understand it, they don't understand it either. Appeal to the expert is another fallacy to add to your ad hominem. Logic would be a lot more useful.
So would you support jailing of gay people based on "scientific findings" that you don't understand?
You can use "accept" is you like, and I will continue to assign "belief" to it's meaning.
"Appeal to the expert"
I do not consider appeal to authority to be a fallacy unless it's not a bona fide authority. I look thinks up in authoritative texts all the time, including things I am not equipped to figure out on my own.
"your ad hominem"
What ad hominem?
"So would you support jailing of gay people based on "scientific findings" that you don't understand?"
This is an interesting question. What are the finding in this hypothetical?
"I will continue to assign "belief" to it's meaning."
If accept maps to believe, what word maps to accept? This is confusing.