A Revived EPA Takes on Climate Change and More

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The following is from Micheal Crichton's Speech on "Enviromentalism as Religion" fond at:
>http://www.michaelcrichton.com/speech-environmentalismaseligion.html<
How will we manage to get environmentalism out of the clutches of religion, and back to a scientific discipline? There's a simple answer: we must institute far more stringent requirements for what constitutes knowledge in the environmental realm. I am thoroughly sick of politicized so-called facts that simply aren't true. It isn't that these "facts" are exaggerations of an underlying truth. Nor is it that certain organizations are spinning their case to present it in the strongest way. Not at all---what more and more groups are doing is putting out is lies, pure and simple. Falsehoods that they know to be false.
This trend began with the DDT campaign, and it persists to this day. At this moment, the EPA is hopelessly politicized. In the wake of Carol Browner, it is probably better to shut it down and start over. What we need is a new organization much closer to the FDA. We need an organization that will be ruthless about acquiring verifiable results, that will fund identical research projects to more than one group, and that will make everybody in this field get honest fast.
Because in the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better. That's not a good future for the human race. That's our past. So it's time to abandon the religion of environmentalism, and return to the science of environmentalism, and base our public policy decisions firmly on that.

davidh of TX 9:17AM April 14, 2009

Once again, Gullible Warming (GW) is being stoked by huge amounts of tax-payer money being thrown into the fire. The Siberian tundra has, for millions of years, absorbed and frozen the wastes of countless millions of animals, many of which are now extinct. As it thaws, the waste products will be unfrozen and bio-degraded. The result will be countless tons of methane pouring into the atmosphere. There is nothing that the Eco-Wackos (EWs) or I can do to stop this.Human input is miniscule compared to the methane thatthis huge amount of frozen waste will generate.

Thomas Goss 5:02AM April 14, 2009

I have done a fair amount of reading on this. It is accuate to say that the climate is getting warmer. It is also accurate to say that CO2 from man is a likely contributor. The key word is "likely." It is not at all certain we can have much impact by changing our ways. However conservation is a good principle. If we can do with less carbon for a similar cost we should based on the possiblity it might help. The EPA does not have a clear path on this.

Eriemaster of OH 1:29PM April 13, 2009