EPA’s CO2 Endangerment Finding is Endangered
the science is certainly inadequate to support the IPCC conclusion of anthropogenic global warming (AGW). – American Thinker
By S. Fred Singer at American Thinker
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The EPA then issued an Endangerment Finding (EF) in 2009, which was promptly challenged in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. One of the challenges came from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP). We questioned both the procedure and the validity of the underlying science used by the EPA, as embodied in their TSD (Technical Support Document).
EPA claims it met all IQA standards because the TSD, far from being a “highly influential scientific assessment,” is not a “scientific assessment” at all. According to EPA, the TSD did not involve any weighing of data, information, or studies. Rather, the TSD simply summarizes assessments of other authorities, principally the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the US National Academy’s National Research Council (NRC), and the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). [Note that neither NRC and USGCRP are “independent;” both reports are based on the IPCC, whose own Assessment has been compromised by the revelations of the Climategate e-mails.]
But in so saying, EPA may have leapt from the frying pan into the fire, because in the ongoing litigation over EPA’s greenhouse gas regulations, a key claim made by the petitioners Coalition for Responsible Regulation is that when EPA developed its TSD and associated EF, it unlawfully outsourced its “judgment” to the IPCC and other non-agency experts.
The lack of an independent analysis of the science underlying the EF puts the burden right back on the soundness of the science used by the IPCC, which is the main source of the TSD.
But the science is certainly inadequate to support the IPCC conclusion of anthropogenic global warming (AGW).
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