Russ McBee

A Supreme Court decision from 2007 (PDF here) mandated that the Environmental Protection Agency was required under the Clean Air Act to determine if anthropogenic carbon dioxide represents a threat to human health. In December, the EPA sent an email to the White House outlining its findings; the White House simply refused to open the email, ...

Two stories from yesterday illustrate the Bush administration's use of foot-dragging as a tactical maneuver in their war against the proper role of government. First, the EPA is refusing to comply in a timely manner with a Supreme Court decision from nearly a year ago which ordered the EPA to begin regulating greenhouse gases: EPA ...

Contempt seems to be a common theme in today's news cycle: Josh Bolten and Karl Rove have been held in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoenas in the US attorney firing scandal. The White House and the obstructionist Senate Republicans are showing nothing but contempt for renewable energy; they're also showing contempt toward ...

From the AP via HuffPo: An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One even speculated that summer sea ice would be gone in five years. Greenland's ice sheet melted nearly 19 billion tons more than the ...

The Bali conference on climate change has begun; its goal is to establish a framework for negotiating a treaty which will pick up the slack when the Kyoto protocol expires in 2012. The US delegation and the White House have been making public pronouncements lately which seem to support the Bali initiative: [The leader of the US delegation in ...

It comes as no surprise that a member of the Bush regime would say something this idiotic about global warming: The president's top science adviser said yesterday there is no solid scientific evidence that the widely cited goal of limiting future global temperature rises to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is necessary to avert ...

Here's the understatement of the day: A U.S. summit in September on climate change, one of at least four international meetings set for this year, is already raising doubts about any action being taken before President Bush leaves office. Bush is trying to run out the clock on negotiations, scheduling final talks which would end one month ...

The press is breathlessly reporting Bush's seeming change of heart on the global warming issue. He's proposing a series of negotiations among the 15 most polluting countries in the world (including India and China) which would establish ''goals'' for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The negotiations would last for 18 months, just a few weeks shy ...

Today's Washington Post has an article about the Bush administration's attempt to weaken a G-8 declaration on global warming: A draft proposal dated April 2007 that is being debated in Bonn, Germany, this weekend by senior officials of the Group of Eight includes a pledge to limit the global temperature rise this century to 3.6 degrees ...