EPA SCIENTISTS FILE MASS PETITION FOR ACTION ON GLOBAL WARMING

[kpete]

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility News Release (www.peer.org)

For Immediate Release: November 29, 2006
Contact: Carol Goldberg [phone]

EPA SCIENTISTS FILE MASS PETITION FOR ACTION ON GLOBAL WARMING — Majority of Entire EPA Workforce Calls for Regulation of Greenhouse Gases


Washington, DC — In an unprecedented action, representatives for more than 10,000 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scientists are calling on Congress to take immediate action against global warming, according to a petition released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The petition also calls for an end to censorship of agency scientists and other specialists on topics of climate change and the effects of air pollution.

The petition stresses that time is running out to prevent cataclysmic environmental changes induced by human-caused pollution and urges Congress to undertake prompt actions:

“If we wait, we will be committing the next generation of Americans to approximately double the current global warming concentrations, with the associated adverse impacts on human health and the environment.”

The filing of this petition coincides with today’s oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on a case (Massachusetts v. EPA, Case No. 05-1120) brought by states seeking to force the Bush administration to regulate greenhouse gases that fuel global warming under the Clean Air Act.

more at:
http://www.peer.org/news/print_detail.php?row_id=789

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

1. Bravo!

[The_Warmth]

2. That's some of the best news

I've ever read. Kpete strikes again!

[Jcrowley]

3. K & R n/t

[bloom]

4. good for them... nt

:bounce:

[jpak]

5. Bush Orders Mass Firing of Uppity EPA Scientists

to be replaced by right-thinking Bush-loving Dominionists who will prove that global warming is a "fraud"...

[goforit]

17. This is so sad.

[Canuckistanian]

18. This shouldn't be a sad event, it should be a wake-up call

It shows that the forces of denial cannot be sustained for long.

THE TRUTH will always get out in a just society.

And the EPA employees (and PEER) should be celebrated for their role in this.

:toast:

[Norrin Radd]

28. I just love when people who reject evolution

and the age of this planet think they have the goods to take on global warming and climate change.

[Mnemosyne]

6. More proof that Al is right.

"take immediate action"

That says it all.

[Jacobin]

7. Oh my. This is Bush's EPA?

:yoiks:

[nam78_two]

23. I have always had the impression that like most govt. agencies

the EPA has lots of good people in positions other than the top ones...

Its the asshats at the top that are totally corrupt...

[rman]

29. No institution is monolithic

There are good guys everywhere, even though there are not many in high places.

[Uncle Joe]

8. Outstanding!

Thanks for posting kpete

Kicked and recommended

[RedEarth]

9. Outstanding.............!!!!

[applegrove]

10. Way to go.

[lovuian]

11. I'm so proud of these scientists

:woohoo:

[glitch]

12. Me too. K & R nt

[porphyrian]

13. I'll kick that. - n/t

[crickets]

14. Yes! Enthusiastic K&R

:dem:

[lovuian]

15. kick

:kick:

[Swede]

16. Havn't these 10,000 scientists got the memo that global warming is junk science?

nt

[FogerRox]

19. Time to stand tall.

[civildisoBDence]

20. 10,000 EPA scientists on one side, three or four talk radio blowhards on the other

How could so many scientists be so wrong???

Newsprism

[texpatriot2004]

21. Thank you PEER nm

[nam78_two]

22. K&R/nt

[wiggs]

24. Tonight's NOVA included a piece on the reasons for the mass extinction

at the end of the Permian period: global warming due to greenhouse gases which caused the oceans to warm, oxygen levels to drop in the ocean, and toxic levels of sulphur dioxide to be released into the atmosphere.

Mass extinctions due to global warming.

[buddysmellgood]

25. Setting the stage for President-elect Al Gore.

[RestoreGore]

30. This is much bigger than that...

And Al Gore would tell you that as well.

[buddysmellgood]

31. How so? I understand it is important, but how will lit achieve more than if

Gore is in the Whitehouse to lead people like them?

[RestoreGore]

32. Because he wouldn't be able to concentrate on this alone

And after trying for thirty years to make politicians see it, I don't want for have him to have to bang his head on that brick wall again, and become mired in political BS in order to be able to lead on this issue, as he is already doing.

[buddysmellgood]

33. We need a carbon tax to move this forward. He needs to be in power to

accomplish that.

[Harper_is_Bush]

26. This is pretty amazing. Hope it hits the mainstream soon. n/t

[upi402]

27. "The petition stresses that time is running out"

Nothing else matters one whit if the life-bubble pops.