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From: Cliff on 30 Jul 2010 15:41

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/07/epa-rejects-challenge-to-credible-compelling-climate-science.html
"EPA rejects challenge to 'credible, compelling' climate science"
[
The Environmental Protection Agency unleashed a full-throated defense on
Thursday of scientific evidence that mankind is dangerously warming the planet,
and of the Obama administration's unilateral moves to curb the heat-trapping gas
emissions scientists blame for climate change.

Rejecting a series of critiques lodged by groups seeking to block federal
regulation of greenhouse gas emissions -- including allegations linked to the
so-called "Climategate" e-mail scandal and a pair of errors in a high-profile
United Nations climate report -- EPA officials declared that "climate science is
credible, compelling and growing stronger."

In a press release, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said the climate science
critiques were rooted in "selectively edited, out-of-context data and a
manufactured controversy" and that they "provide no evidence to undermine our
determination" that greenhouse gases endanger human health and are thus subject
to regulation under the Clean Air Act.

Ten groups had petitioned to challenge that determination, which is known as the
"endangerment finding," including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, coal giant
Peabody and the states of Texas and Virginia.

Several of those petitions challenged the foundations of climate science,
alleging, among other complaints, that the leaked "Climategate" e-mails from
prominent climate scientists demonstrated a widespread conspiracy to manipulate
global temperature data; that new studies refute the notion that emissions from
burnt fossil fuels are warming the planet; and that the report from the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the U.N. climate report that is the
gold standard of climate science, was unreliable due to recently discovered
errors including a misstatement of projected melting periods for Himalayan
glaciers.

The EPA rejected each claim in a three-volume decision that spanned several
hundred pages. .....
]
From: larry moe 'n curly on 30 Jul 2010 16:33
Cliff wrote:
> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/07/epa-rejects-challenge-to-credible-compelling-climate-science.html
> "EPA rejects challenge to 'credible, compelling' climate science"

You mean "refudiate". ;)
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