WildClickers #72: Green, the color of life

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1 Aktbird57 .. 56.484 acres

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/08/opinion/08sat1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print


July 8, 2006
Editorial

Global Warming and the Courts

In a move that has caused both delight and apprehension among those who worry about global warming, the Supreme Court has agreed to rule next fall on whether the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The case is among the most important environmental disputes ever to come before the court.

The outcome will have much to say about whether the country will be able to act more aggressively on a problem with potentially grave consequences for the earth and its inhabitants. It could also determine whether states that have acted on their own to limit global warming emissions from vehicles ?- as California and 10 other states have done ?- can proceed without fear of a federal veto.

President Bush has advanced many reasons for not pressing for strong controls on greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, power plants and other industrial sources. But his ace in the hole has been the claim that the federal government has no authority to regulate greenhouse gases.

The case turns largely on a simple reading of the Clean Air Act. The administration argues that the act mentions carbon dioxide only in passing, and that if Congress had been truly worried about global warming it would have given the gases that cause it more emphasis and instructed the E.P.A. to take aggressive steps to control them, as it did with sulfur dioxide and other pollutants. The administration argues further that the science on global warming is too "uncertain" to justify anything more than a voluntary effort to deal with it.

The plaintiffs ?- a formidable collection of state governments and environmental groups ?- argue that the plain language of the Clean Air Act gives the government jurisdiction over "any air pollutant" that threatens "public health or welfare" and, further, that "welfare" specifically includes effects on climate and weather. This interpretation of the act was first set forth by President Clinton's E.P.A. and stood as agency policy until Mr. Bush reversed it (without consulting his own E.P.A.) in 2001.

As for the science that the administration finds so shaky, the plaintiffs will argue that the science has grown steadily more persuasive since the Clean Air Act was last revised in 1990; that the administration has cherry-picked arguments about details while ignoring the vast preponderance of the evidence; and that the consensus among mainstream scientists ?- a consensus reinforced by a recent National Academy of Sciences report ?- is that the earth is inexorably heating up and that industrial emissions are largely responsible.

This is a case of global importance, not least because America's failure to act decisively has discouraged the rest of the world from acting decisively. On the face of it, the law plainly gives the government the power to regulate greenhouse gases. A ruling that tells the administration that it has that power does not mean that it will actually use it. But it will no longer be able to hide behind a legal fiction.

Good Sunday afternoon, Wildclickers.........

all clicked.

sumac,
The Schrubs administration selectively spins it's own web of deceit. He's been that way from the beginning - just like his Papa. Actually, more than probably with his Papa's help - in secret of course.

holy moly, I just beat The Aktbird into the account!
Clicked for devriesj, the Aktbird and myself (and my gang)

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aktbird57 - You and your 298 friends have supported 2,461,990.5 square feet!

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1 Aktbird57 .. 1514 56.518 acres

I got some clicks in today, but then Care2 always timed out.
Maybe it will work tomorrow - I might get today's clicks in too.

Monday, monday (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
So good to me (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
Monday mornin, it was all I hoped it would be
Oh monday mornin, monday mornin couldnt guarantee (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
That monday evenin you would still be here with me

Monday, monday, cant trust that day
Monday, monday, sometimes it just turns out that way
Oh monday mornin you gave me no warnin of what was to be
Oh monday, monday, how could you leave and not take me

Every other day (every other day), every other day
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
But whenever monday comes, but whenever monday comes
A-you can find me cryin all of the time

Monday, monday (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
So good to me (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
Monday mornin, it was all I hoped it would be
Oh monday mornin, monday mornin couldnt guarantee
That monday evenin you would still be here with me

Every other day, every other day
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
But whenever monday comes, but whenever monday comes
You can find me cryin all of the time

Monday, monday (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
So good to me (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
Monday mornin, it was all I hoped it would be
Oh monday mornin, monday mornin couldnt guarantee
That monday evenin you would still be here with me

Every other day, every other day
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
But whenever monday comes, but whenever monday comes
You can find me cryin all of the time

Monday, monday (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
Cant trust that day (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
Monday, monday (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
It just turns out that way (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
Whoa, monday, monday, wont go away (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
Monday, monday, its here to stay (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
Oh monday, monday (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
Oh monday, monday (ba-da ba-da-da-da)






It isn't really THAT bad......... :wink:

Love that song.

Good morning all.

When ya begin work at 4:00 a.m. the day doesn't even start till noon!

It is possible for a person to work and still be nynite?

yes it is

i can attest to that fact

The neatest thing though was driving to work, a beautiful moon shining, warm temps, windows down, sipping an iced coffee, and not another vehicle driving the roadway cept me and the Chevy!

Heaven

aktbird57 - You and your 298 friends have supported 2,463,418.7 square feet!

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1 Aktbird57 .. 1515 56.550 acres

It does sound wonderful, Stradee. The kitties and I often get up at 4 or 5 and it is my favorite time of the day. Coffee and computer and then out at daybreak while it is still relatively cool.

Stradee, that's more than a little early for me...... However, thinking back some of the most satisfying moments ever for me were watching the sky brighten in the East and finally seeing the sun sending it's first streaks through the landscape. Something ethereal about those times.

Hey everyone.... Here is a site that tells about the happenings in Vienna. It's free and if you would like to subscribe - just click on the block that sez 'Vienna waits for you' and follow directions.

http://newsletter.wien.info/u/gm.php?prm=cNeQH8niGL_121789499_2461_3241

Have fun.................. clicked

I came back with the link to register for the Vienna newsletter =

http://www.wien.info/wtv/wien-news-e.html

Another part of Vienna- THE place to be today.
91F right now.

No early riser if I can avoid it- my hour is after midnight on a starry night.

Good newsletter, Danon.
Hope you take it literally- Vienna waits for you.

Sue, it is a good beginning of the day, isn't it?

The kittens are loving my being home with them during daylight hours also. Miss the little critters. My vastrada celebrates her b-day in August! She'll be 16 the same day of the month. My god how time passes so quickly! Her daughter Amanda is 15, Bootsies' 11, and Mz. Bella just celebrated her 8th b-day. We do luv our babies.

Dan, that's a good word! A silence unexplainable, yet peaceful. Nature is something - never ceasing to amaze.

Enjoy your day, everyone....

ul, beautiful photo!

Dan, thanks for the link. Vienna looks and sounds wonderful!

Click

Hey there Amigo!

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clicked for me and devriesj

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aktbird57 - You and your 298 friends have supported 2,465,291.8 square feet!

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1 Aktbird57 .. 1516 56.592 acres

Great photo Ul, and I wish I could be in Vienna in late August for the 2006 World Skydiving Championship event.

Me too.

Amigo, you're really an asset to the "Wildclickers"

Keep clicking, Amigo!!

Here it is. Wednesday. Middle of the week. Hump day. The fence riders dream day. etc, etc, etc.

all clicked.

Have a nice day everyone.

Well, I might catch the Skydiving event-

our flight tickets arrived today. So I will be in Chicago for some days and then we will go to Mexico. Yeah!