Copenhagen: Day One
Posted by Ology Staff , Dec, 2009 @ 3:33 pmIt was a fortuitous start to the Copenhagen climate summit for advocates of massive global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As delegates at the summit were watching this 4 minute horror movie
(now why would anybody say these folks are alarmists?)
President Obama’s EPA Administrator was announcing a major finding that–with the support of the Supreme Court–would reinterpret existing laws and give the EPA sweeping powers to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Some fear that these new regulations will cripple American industry.
Let’s be clear: we here at PoliticOlogy believe that the earth is warming, and we believe that human beings are almost certainly contributing to that warming. But the extent to which this is so, and a dozen other questions–at what pace will the warming continue? What will be the consequences? Is it reversible? At what cost?–remain unsettled.
The EPA’s announcement will therefore be welcome if it will–as it is surely intended to do–give the President leverage to both spur Congress into action on reducing carbon emissions and secure pledges from world leaders to do the same. If the United States is not joined by the likes of China and India in these efforts, which will potentially cost hundreds of billions, then America’s economy will suffer, countless jobs will move overseas to unregulated countries, and the planet will be no better off.
Tags: Barack Obama, Climate Change, ClimateGate, Copenhagen, EPA, Global Warming, Lisa Jackson
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