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Originally Posted by Stitcher
EPA Calls CO2 a Danger — At Last
Time/Health & Science: By Bryan Walsh Monday, Mar. 23, 2009
It's been two years since the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change laid out the definitive case that human beings were causing global warming, and two decades since NASA scientist James Hansen first told Congress of the threat of rising CO2 emissions. So, why has it taken this long for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to announce that greenhouse gases endanger human health? Change can be slow in Washington.
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The least well-kept secret in Washington (and perhaps in the whole world) is that the EPA is one of the most political administration-controlled agencies there, and it is no secret at all that the Bush-Republican administration of the past eight years has little use for those tree-hugging environmentalists or the scientific community with their pesky data. Besides, doesn't everyone know that Al Gore and his Inconvenient Truth campaign is just another anti-business effort of the liberal left?
I would hazard a guess that the change in administrations in Washington has everything to do with this sudden 180-degree turn in the attitude toward the dangers of rising CO2 emissions rather than an epiphany of atmospheric clarity.
