Right-Wingers Say, Top 10 Reasons to Oppose EPA Regulations

We got a kick out of this response to power plant regulations announced today by the EPA.

It comes from an official-sounding group, the National Center for Public Policy Research, one of the many right-wing organizations that tries to derail any action on climate.

Title of the press release:

Top 10 Reasons to Oppose President Obama’s New Climate Regulations

Here are their reasons, with our reaction in []:

1. The Earth hasn’t warmed since the Clinton Administration; [ridiculous, not true – for the first time, carbon levels exceeded 400 ppm for an entire month, in April]
2. New global warming laws and regulations harm people, especially those with lower incomes and minorities; [not true, the laws will improve their health since polluting facilities are usually located in those communities]
3. Energy-related carbon emissions in the US fell 12.6% from 2005-2012, while worldwide emissions rose 17.7%; [true! but our emissions are still way to high, and are rising again as of 2013. Either way, it’s no excuse for the US to sit back and relax]
4. The climate models upon which President Obama’s belief in human-caused catastrophic global warming is based do not work – since 1979, over 96% of climate models predicted more warming by now than has taken place; [ridiculous, scientists are horrified by how quickly changes are proceeding; if anything they have been too conservative in their predictions]
5. Claims that 97% of scientists endorse the global warming "theory" are propaganda. [absurd, completely false].
6. The IPCC is a political, not scientific, body. [wow – they can sure make stuff up!]
7. As temperature predictions haven’t come true [really?], global warming activists desperately started blaming climate change for hurricanes, tornadoes and even cold weather [temperature predictions are true, you bet we blame the onslaught of extreme weather events, ocean acidity etc.]
8. Current sea ice levels prove nothing. While arctic sea ice levels are below average, Antarctic sea ice levels are above average, as are global sea ice levels. [below average in the Arctic?! Try getting close to being ice-free; I guess they missed the news on Antarctica, sliding into the sea].

   

9. While claiming global warming is a crisis, environmental groups paradoxically oppose the major energy sources that can reduce carbon emissions, such as nuclear,  hydropower and fracking [that’s right, we prefer renewable energy that’s clean and safe, why don’t you?]
10. After the Clinton-Gore Administration signed Kyoto, they didn’t present it to the Senate for ratification and after the Democrat-led House of Representatives passed cap-and-trade legislation in 2009, it didn’t come up for a vote in the Senate – they act as if they don’t believe it themselves. [Kyoto didn’t have a chance of being ratified with the Republican majority, which filibustered the vote on cap-and-trade.

At the end of the press release, there’s this:
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