RSSStatement on Supreme Court Ruling on Global Warming
J.J. Jackson* | April 2, 2007
I was going to write a post about the Supreme Court’s CO2 decision, but when this press release from the National Center for Public Policy Research crossed my desk I figured it addressed what I wanted to say …
For Release: April 2, 2007
Contact: David Almasi at (202) 543-4110 x11 or dalmasi@nationalcenter.orgWashington, D.C. - Amy Ridenour, president of The National Center for Public Policy Research, released this statement today following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency:
Statement on Supreme Court Ruling on Global Warming in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency
“The Supreme Court’s decision is a victory for the bad guys in the battle over whether the American people will be governed by accountable elected officials or unaccountable judges. Unable to convince the Senate to vote upon, let alone ratify, the Kyoto global warming treaty, the left has adopted the Kyoto-by-stealth strategy of asking judges to force its version of science into the pocketbooks of the American people.
Shame on them. And shame on the five Justices agreed to do so today.
We learn from Justice Stevens today that carbon dioxide is ‘the most important… greenhouse gas.’ Science cannot confirm the Justice’s confident statement. The role of water vapor, the most plentiful greenhouse gas, is not yet understood. Nor is the role of carbon dioxide understood. Such uncertainty, among many others, is the reason scientists annually request and spend several billion dollars of funds supplied by hardworking U.S. taxpayer for research into climate change. Can the taxpayers now expect relief? After all, the Justices have spoken; the verdict is in.
We shall see how many groups on the political left today ask: ‘How many peer-reviewed papers has Justice Stevens published?’
U.S. policies relating to the alleged threat of global warming should, as Justices Roberts, Scalia, Thomas and Alito said in their dissent, be determined by the Congress and the Chief Executive. As the dissenting Justices also observed, ‘[Global warming] is not a problem that… has escaped the attention of policymakers in the Executive and Legislative Branches of our Government, who continue to consider regulatory, legislative and treaty-based means of addressing global climate change.’
The Supreme Court should have stayed out of the way. The legislative and executive branches are empowered by the Constitution with the duty of setting environmental policies, and, unlike our rapacious judicial branch, also are accountable to the American people.”
At least Scalia, Thomas and Alito can be counted on (more often than not) for sound judicial reasoning.
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First, I would just like to point out that three of the “unaccountable Justices” that ruled against the EPA in this case were appointed by Republicans. You know you’re a bonehead when even your conservative Supreme Court Justices don’t agree with you.
Second, I don’t remember electing the head of the EPA. Does that make him unaccountable as well? Are only those public officials that we elect worthy of our respect and appreciation? Or do you only deride those unelected officials that you don’t agree with?
And as to leaving the decisions to the Executive and Legislative. This case went to exactly that issue. It held that the Executive has been derelict in its duties to protect the people of the state of Massachusets from the scientifically proven detrimental effects of global warming.
Wake up fools. You lost this one because the evidence is not on your side.
Pay attention class. Jake is a prime example of a liberal who, when the facts don’t mesh with his feelings says anything he wants. You will note that nowhere in his entire comment does he actually address where Congress is tasked with passing such regulation under the Constituion (Article I spells out these powers).
Second he falls back on the same old piece of stinky poo about how some of the judges were appointed by “Republicans”. Hey Jake, “Republican” does not equal “conservative” or “constitutional” so you might want to find a new talking point to rely on.
And about us “fools” and the “evidence”? Don’t remind him that the Earth has warmed and cooled many times before humans and CO2 levels rose and fell many times as well. Those are inconvient facts.
Jake is nothing but one of Al Gore’s little sheep that actually believe humans cause global warming and that there is a “consensus” on the issue. It’s easier to deal with their own illogic that way.
I guess if the federal government has the right to regulate plant food (CO2) then it also has the right to regulate water vapor as well considering that is about a 100x worse of a “green house gas” than CO2.
PM,
People like Jake here are constitutionally illiterate. We all know that.
Jake,
Let me give you just a glimpse of this “fool’s” creditials ok?
Masters of Science in Environmental Engineering (ie. I know quite a bit about atmospheric chemisty, radiation, heatings, etc.)
Nearly 10 years of experience in the field.
So take your crap somewhere else.