Inhofe demanded the EPA's Inspector General investigate the Obama administration's explanation for regulating carbon pollution. Why did the Obama administration have to act? Even the conservative Supreme Court told the Bush administration its explanation for not regulating carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act was indefensible.
The EPA IG report cost $300,000 of your tax dollars to produce. What did it find?
A federal investigation, requested by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) in an April 7, 2010 letter, finds that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) endangerment finding for greenhouse gases “met statutory requirements for rulemaking and generally followed requirements and guidance related to ensuring the quality of the supporting technical information.”Wasn't that exciting? Not exactly. But to Inhofe, it's scandalous! It has to be, because to Inhofe, anything that validates climate science must not be true because he's well-compensated by the oil & coal industries to say so. And Inhofe will prove it to you by saying things that are borderline incomprehensible:
In our opinion, the endangerment finding TSD is a highly influential scientific assessment that should have been peer reviewed as outlined in Section III of OMB’s Final Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review.To avoid talking about the temperature record and human influence on it, Inhofe is once again resorting to The Chewbacca Defense:
The data showing our planet is warming and man-made carbon pollution just keeps rolling in. But Sen. Inhofe doesn't want to talk to you about that. He wants to talk to you about how the EPA should actually have formally peer-reviewed the major reviews of the peer reviewed literature.
/head explodes
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one could make the argument that the reviews of the peer reviewed science were in fact peer reviewed in the making of the review.
It's probably my fault- I drove my SUV a lot last week. We all know for a fact that before I drove my SUV last week, there had never been any fires ever in OK.
It's either that, or changing magnetic fields in the sun that influence the number of cosmic rays that hit our atmosphere which influences cloud cover, but it's probably more about me driving my SUV.
Stupid watermellons.
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