Comments for EPA Dept. Director Kills Report and Author Warned "Stop Talking About It" at http://www.rightsidenews.com , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.rightsidenews.com Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:44:22 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.rightsidenews.com/200907035313/energy-and-environment/epa-director-kills-report-and-author-warned-qstop-talking-about-itq.html#comment-3022 My dear Mr. Spock, You are incorrect in your first 9 words, "[i][b]Dr. Carlin, who got his undergraduate degree in physics from CalTech and his PhD in economics from MIT"[/b][/i] So you see, Dr. Carlin IS both, scientist (physics is sort of related to science isn't it?) and economist (wow, Ph.D. from MIT no less, so I guess he has more than a couple of those brain cells functioning). Actually it was "requested" as it was his job to prepare and submit comment on and for "Technical Support Documents" or TSD (as was mentioned in the article). Dr. Carlin isn't just some "schmuck" hanging around the EPA emptying trash baskets, he has been with them for over 35 years and has more than a few credentials to be doing exactly what he was doing. So, it really wasn't "another area" of expertise, it was HIS area AND it was what he had been enjoined to do as part of his job, by the "employer", and he didn't "demand" that it be published, he basically said that since he had been asked to write it, since it was "in time" to be included, and since it was important in that it answered several questions left by the IPCC report by including new peer-reviewed data that had come about since the cut off of the IPCC report, that it was relevant. (I read the emails between Dr. Carlin and the little boss who said no) Based on the "reason" that the boss gave for not forwarding it to be included (it didn't support what the agency and the administration [b]wanted[/b] it to say) was specious, saying: "The time for such discussion of fundamental issues has passed for this round.[[i]actually it hadn't "passed" as there were still a couple more days[/i]] The [b]administrator[/b][[i]this would be the big boss at EPA[/i]] and [b]the administration[/b] [[i]this would be Obama and the rest of his czars[/i]] has decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision. …. I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office.” WOW, did you catch that last sentence?? Basically what he is saying is that [b]NEVERmind [/b]that your comments may be pertinent, peer-reviewed and contain data that has come available since the last document was closed out, the one upon which everyone is basing decisions, [b]NEVERMIND[/b] any of that, we just want to avoid looking bad by going against the administration! Are you freaking kidding me?? This is the EPA folks, they are UNELECTED AND have NO accountability to the public and yet they can unilaterally declare CO2 a "pollutant"??? So that they can NOW impose draconian regulation on the entire country, destroying jobs (2.2 real jobs destroyed for every 1 "green job" created), destroying the economy (billions of dollars of punitive regulation on [b]every[/b] small, medium and large business in the country) and devastating American families (an ADDITIONAL $700 - $2,100 MORE cost per family per YEAR), and they are choosing to NOT include all relevant information? What next? The EPA refuses to listen to some crackpot scientist that insists that CO2 is necessary for all life on earth to exist BUT that since THEY have proclaimed it a pollutant that we need to destroy it all? Hmm, they decide that the first best step is for all living creatures to Oh WAIT, I KNOW, STOP exhaling!! "B. [b]Prejudgment of the Outcome of the Endangerment Proceeding[/b]: The emails [from Carlins boss] also suggest that EPA has [b]prejudged[/b] the outcome of this proceeding, to the point where it arguably [b]cannot be trusted to fairly evaluate[/b] the record before it. Courts have recognized “the danger that an agency, having reached a particular result, [b]may become so committed[/b] to that result as [b]to resist engaging in any genuine reconsideration[/b] of the issues.” Food Marketing Institute v. ICC, 587 F.2d 1285, 1290 (D.C. Cir. 1978)." So, you are ok with an agency that has the sort of unbridled power that the EPA wields becoming so committed to some "result" or idea that they are unwilling to even give a listen to information that could possibly show them that what they are doing is wrong?? Well, I guess I'm just old fashioned and have the attitude that I am still quite capable of taking care of myself, thank you very much, I do NOT need some pompous, ego-maniacal, jerk with delusions of god-hood, telling me "you VWILL do this, or you vwill face zee consequences! Eet is for zee goot of zee party" So, yeah, I think I'm glad to see Dr. Carlin's report. - Texas FrogSoup Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:14:59 +0100 http://www.rightsidenews.com/200907035313/energy-and-environment/epa-director-kills-report-and-author-warned-qstop-talking-about-itq.html#comment-3019 Alan Carlin is an economist, not an environmental scientist. His report was not requested by his management. Wherever you work, imagine that you wrote a report about another area of expertise and demanded that your employer publish it. Would you be surprised if they refused? - Spock Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:49:26 +0100 http://www.rightsidenews.com/200907035313/energy-and-environment/epa-director-kills-report-and-author-warned-qstop-talking-about-itq.html#comment-2880 I strongly recommend Professor Ian Plimer's 500 page book on this topic "Heaven and Earth." It is selling very strongly in Australia. He has had the time Mr Carlin lacked, and the book leads on to 2311 references. Plimer puts the geological arguments very well. I have also had a bit of a go over the past few years, see the website. I suspect that geomagnetic field shifts are implicated. The maps from the real world suggest that strongly. - Peter Ravenscroft Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:02:26 +0100 http://www.rightsidenews.com/200907035313/energy-and-environment/epa-director-kills-report-and-author-warned-qstop-talking-about-itq.html#comment-2859 Thank you Mr. Carlin. Too bad some folks cna't stand the truth. - Hardnox Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:47:32 +0100