New American – September 20, 2010
Forced to contend with the reality that global warming is not a man-made phenomenon that will ultimately result in catastrophe, President Obama’s Science Czar John Holdren has turned away from terms like “global warming” and “climate change” and has instead targeted the newest threat to the globe: “global climate disruption.”
Addressing the clear attempt at repacking an old concept under a new title, England’sTelegraph joked, “That way whether it gets warmer or colder, wetter or drier, less climatically eventful or more climatically eventful, the result will be the same: it can all be put down to ‘global climate disruption.’”
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The New York Times – July 23, 2010
Over the past two years, cap-and-trade advocates used the threat of U.S. EPA climate regulations as a key driver in the push for climate legislation on Capitol Hill. Now, Democratic leaders face the challenge of renewed bipartisan interest in handcuffing EPA before it takes action.
President Obama and many Democrats reveled six weeks ago in the successful defeat of a Senate bid to neuter EPA’s authority over emissions. But with the Senate climate bill dead, new momentum is building for legislation that would pre-empt the agency’s power under the Clean Air Act to regulate stationary pollution sources.
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