Historic EPA finding: Greenhouse gases harm humans
Water vapor is by far the major green house gas, and it composes 95% of total green house gases. Is water vapor now bad for our health?
EPA signals new pollution controls, concluding climate-changing gases endanger people's health
H. Josef Hebert and Dina Cappiello, Associated Press Writers
7:14 pm EST, Monday December 7, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration took a major step Monday toward imposing the first federal limits on climate-changing pollution from cars, power plants and factories, declaring there was compelling scientific evidence that global warming from manmade greenhouse gases endangers Americans' health.
The announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency was clearly timed to build momentum toward an agreement at the international conference on climate change that opened Monday in Copenhagen, Denmark. It signaled the administration was prepared to push ahead for significant controls in the U.S. if Congress doesn't act first on its own.
The price could be steep for both industry and consumers. The EPA finding clears the way for rules that eventually could force the sale of more fuel-efficient vehicles and require plants to install costly new equipment -- at a cost of billions or even many tens of billions of dollars -- or shift to other forms of energy.
No analysis has been conducted by the EPA on costs of such broad regulations, although the agency put the price tag of its proposed climare-related car rules at $60 billion, with an estimated benefit of $250 billion.
Energy prices for many Americans probably would rise, too -- though Monday's finding will have no immediate impact since regulations have yet to be written. Supporters of separate legislation in Congress argue they could craft measures that would mitigate some of those costs.
Environmentalists hailed the EPA announcement as a clear indication the United States will take steps to attack climate change even if Congress fails to act. And they welcomed the timing of the declaration, saying it will help the Obama administration convince delegates at the international climate talks that the U.S. is serious about addressing the problem. Obama will address the conference next week.
But business groups said regulating carbon emissions through the EPA under existing clean air law would put new economic burdens on manufacturers, cost jobs and drive up energy prices.
More:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Historic-EPA-finding-apf-79715...
i read this today earlier
and i almost peed myself -
carbon dioxide is now an official harmful agent to human health!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
omfg!
at what point do we hear something so absurd and retarded that we as a majority actually just burst out laughing?
if we overbalance our atmosphere with ANY element in overabundance to throw off the current atmospheric composition of COURSE there will be consequences, ones probably adverse to our 'health'. But to single handedly come out and say "carbon dioxide" ... that counter component that plants exchange for oxygen which we breathe.... being essentially toxic to human life...
oh wait what? the copenhagen treaty is taking place?
oh well f*** me, now i get it.
Cant end the wars, cant socialize healthcare, but hell be damned if he cant lock us down with carbon credits.
CO2 is way less than 0.5% of the atmosphere.
Component
Symbol
Volume
Nitrogen
N2
78.084% 99.998%
Oxygen
O2
20.947%
Argon
Ar
0.934%
Carbon Dioxide
CO2
0.033%
Neon
Ne
18.2 parts per million
Helium
He
5.2 parts per million
Krypton
Kr
1.1 parts per million
Sulfur dioxide
SO2
1.0 parts per million
Methane
CH4
2.0 parts per million
Hydrogen
H2
0.5 parts per million
Nitrous Oxide
N2O
0.5 parts per million
Xenon
Xe
0.09 parts per million
Ozone
O3
0.07 parts per million
Nitrogen dioxide
NO2
0.02 parts per million
Iodine
I2
0.01 parts per million
Carbon monoxide
CO
trace
Ammonia
NH3
trace
http://www.physlink.com/reference/AirComposition.cfm
http://mistupid.com/chemistry/aircomp.htm
zomg its eating teh oz0nes!
zomg its eating teh oz0nes! lol
Just in time for Copenhagen
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As if it has been orchestrated perfectly with Copenhagen.
Alas, so were the leaked emails from two weeks ago. They were perfectly timed also to nix the importance of this sham meeting.
Al Gore decided to skip it.
Carbon: definition from the
Carbon: definition from the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1971 Version! There's a part where it says the following about carbon:
"Most of the energy of our bodies, as well as that which drives our machines, is supplied by oxidation of carbon and its compounds, and every form of animal and plant life requires carbon for survival.
Plants obtain it from the carbon dioxide in the air, converting carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates in the process of photosynthesis.
Animals consume the carbohydrates, returning carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by the processes of exhalation and excretion and the decomposition of their bodies under bacterial action after death.
This endless chain linking animal and plant life is known as the carbon cycle."
There's climate change alright. However, it's cyclical. Are human beings supposed to be blamed for the extinction of the dinosaurs for example? From what I've read, there have been 7 cycles already in the past and people we're saying that the next Ice Age is coming and so on. Humans, animals and plants need CO2, it's a basic need. Without it, Earth is lifeless. CO2 isn't bad as the corporatists are saying.
Good, now we will have clean clear skies with no clouds and the
full force of the sun will be felt by everyone. That should cool things down really well. I always hated it when out at my ranch in west Texas it would be 112 and a pesky cloud would come overhead and cool me off.
Maybe next they can part the Gulf of Mexico and I`ll be able to drive to the Yucatan for lunch.
" The force of a correction is equal and opposite to the deception that proceded it"
B. Bonner
"Since 1789 the only government on Earth that has the power to crush the American people`s liberties across the board is the government of the United States"
Robert Higgs
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This is the same EPA that
This is the same EPA that told everyone that dust from the WTC demolition did not adversely affect air and water. How can anyone believe a word of this agency's drivel?
EPA Should Have Been Shut Down Because Of That...
I saw a video can't remember the name showing all the people that have died because of that...
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...right on Gil...
...They think they are ahead of the curve of B.S. they create, leaving us all ignorant and forgetful of the last fraud they perpetrated...
...THEY ARE MISTAKEN...
RON2012PAUL...The r3VOLution continues...
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A lot of us don't ;)
I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees...
I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees...
I forgot to link the press
I forgot to link the press release
http://www.epa.gov/wtc/stories/headline_091801.htm
UK: "Barack Obama given power to cut greenhouse gases" What!!
Copenhagen climate summit: Barack Obama given power to cut greenhouse gases
President Barack Obama has taken powers to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from cars, factories and power plants across the United States.
By Geoffrey Lean
Published: 9:02PM GMT 07 Dec 2009
The news dramatically improves the prospects of reaching a new agreement to combat global warming at the climate summit which opened in Copenhagen on Monday.
His administration formally declared that the gases "endanger the public health and welfare of the America people" empowering its Environment Protection Agency to regulate them across the country under the country's Clean Air Act, without having to get a hotly-contested climate bill through the US Congress.
Lisa Jackson, the agency's administrator, said the move "relied on decades of sound, peer-reviewed, extensively evaluated scientific data" which both "authorised and obligated" it to take reasonable efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
She called it "a reasonable and common-sense measure" that would "drive technology innovation for a better economy and protect the environment for a better future without placing an undue burden" on business.
She added: "It also means that we arrive at the climate talks in Copenhagen with a clear demonstration of our commitment to facing this global challenge. We hope that today's announcement serves as another incentive for far-reaching accords"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-c...
Doesn't Congress need to
Doesn't Congress need to ratify treaties?
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King Barack
will tax the air we breathe. Executive branch out of control.
Or they will try and stop us from breathing altogether.
This exposed conspiracy continues to move forward undaunted.
Ridiculous, but this joke will be on us, again.
RESIST! THIS HOAX NEEDS TO BE DENIED & RESISTED!
DO NOT COMPLY! RESIST AT ALL COSTS! DON'T LET THEM WIN THIS!
Maybe this will be the final BS straw!
I highly doubt most people buy this BS! Being taxed for exhaling might be a push! I will resist this regardless!
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I posted a similar article earlier today check it out.They're gonna get their tax and world government one way or another.Funny thing is they're imposing this regulation using the same (science) from the people in Climategate.
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/118240
I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees...
I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees...
jfor: Sorry about that.
This article written later in the day looks like the spin doctors were hard at work linking this to Copenhagen and conditioning the masses for more taxes and that it's o.k. because the money will go toward helping the environment.
No prob at all
I just wanted you to check out the article I linked :)
Did you read how Obama and Gore are to meet before O goes to Copenhagen?I'm gonna make a post of it.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/12/09/gore-obama.html?ref...
I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees...
I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees...
Yes I did see that story.
Trash attracts white trash.
Wait
The most harmful greenhouse gas to humans turns out to be.....Water Vapor.
Well, No more showers for me.
Showers will be outlawed.
Cars will be outlawed.
Drinking water will be outlawed.
........For the slave class.
To the elite please disregard.
Expirations also have water vapor. Guess what is next?
De-population! I guess without cremation because that would create more CO2. Perhaps our bodies will become a future oil reserve, which by that time will be o.k. to burn.