THE EPA Report on AGW: We Don’t Know

In the wake of the overwhelming stupidity shown by 219 members of the House of Representatives on Friday in passing the energy bill without doing a cost to benefit analysis on any portion of the bill, we today have access to a quashed report drafted at the EPA on the uncertainties over man made ~~global warming~~ climate change.

From the report:

We have become increasingly concerned that the EPA and many other agencies and countries have paid too little attention to the science of global warming. EPA and other have tended to accept the findings reached by outside groups, particularly the IPCC and the CCSP, as being correct without a careful and critical examination of their conclusions and documentation. If they should be found to be incorrect at a later date, however, and the EPA is found not to have made a really careful review of them before reaching its decisions on endangerment, it appears likely that it is the EPA rather than these groups that may be blamed for this error.

It seems to me that anyone who may have read this report, and this paragraph in particular, then decided to ignore the author’s observations and go with the IPCC and CCSP reports is a fraud. From the opening paragraph of the preface, the author of this document that the Obama friendly EPA leadership chose to hide, it is evident that there is someone within the organization who knows better than to accept blithely conclusions reached by individuals who may have had an agenda. It seems only prudent, that the EPA – an agency of the US government – would have done independent studies to either confirm or disprove the results of the IPCC and CCSP reports. Failing to do so opens the EPA and the government of the United States up to all kinds of difficulties when those conclusions are found to be fraudulent. Prudence alone warrants an independent study. But they didn’t do that.

That said however, the next line is THE most telling –

We do not maintain that we or anyone else have all the answers to take action now.

I’m sorry, but if you plan on supporting legislation that has the potential to put 2.5 million American people out of work per year, I think that you have an obligation to know all the answers before voting on said legislation. But then again we ARE talking about a process that allows the bill’s manager to submit an amendment to the bill in excess of 300 pages at 3:09am the day of the vote.

Instead of releasing this report before the vote on the Cap and Tax scheme proposed by the President and authored by Waxman, Pelosi, et al, the EPA failed to protect the American people in favor of a political agenda regardless of the science involved.

The report goes on to state in the Executive Summery …

The current TSD is based largely on the IPCC AR4 report, which is at best three years out of date in a rapidly changing field. There have been important developments in areas that deserve careful attention in this draft. The list includes the following five:

Global temperatures have declined – extending the current downtrend to 11 years with a particularly rapid decline in 1907-08 (I believe this was supposed to be dated 2007-08); in addition, the PDO went negative in September, 2007 and the AMO in January, 2009, respectively. At the same time atmospheric CO2 levels have continued to increase and CO2 emissions have accelerated.

The consensus on past, present, and future Atlantic hurricane behavior has changed. Initially, it tilted towards the idea that anthropogenic global warming is leading to (and will lead to) to more frequent and intense storms. Now the consensus is much more neutral, arguing that future Atlantic tropical cyclones will be little different that those in the past.

The idea that the warming temperatures will cause Greenland to rapidly shed its ice has been greatly diminished by new results indicating little evidence for the operation of such processes.

One of the worst economic recessions since World War II has greatly decreased GHG emissions compared to the assumptions made by the IPCC. To the extent that ambient GHG levels are relevant for future global temperatures, these emission reductions should greatly influence the adverse effects of these emissions on public health and welfare. The current draft TSP does not reflect the changes that have already occurred nor those that are likely to occur in the future as a result of the recession. In fact, the topic is not even discussed to our knowledge.

A new 2009 paper finds that the crucial assumption in the GCM models used by the IPCC concerning stongly positive feedback from water vapor is not supported by empirical evidence and that the feedback is actually negative.

A new 2009 paper by Scafetta and West suggests that the IPCC used faulty solar data in dismissing the direct effect of solar variability on global temperatures. Their research suggest that solar variability could account for up to 68% of the increase in the Earth’s global temperatures.

These six developments alone should greatly influence any assessment of “vulnerability, risk, and impacts” of climate change within the U.S. But these are just a few of the new developments since 2006. Therefore, the extensive portions of the EPA’s Endangerment TSD which are based on the old science are no longer appropriate and need to be revisited before a new TSD is issued for comments.

This document is an indictment of the EPA’s complicity in the global conspiracy known as anthropogenic global climate change or as I refer to it as – The Church of Global Warming of Modern Day Idiots.

Failure to release this document prior to the US House vote on Friday for the members to digest prior to voting on legislation which has the potential to destroy the lives of nearly 310 million people borders on the criminal. It is my wish that those within the agency responsible for the suppression of this document to be brought to public light and charged in the court of public opinion.

However, knowing what we know about the current Presidential Infestation, they would more likely get a medal by the Commander-in-Thief.

/rant.

Read more of the previously suppressed EPA report on pdf

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