Exactly! Cheers! EPA official: GOP bill would ‘cripple’ global climate efforts
The Hill Excerpt: An Environmental Protection Agency official said during a Tuesday hearing that a House Republican-sponsored bill would “cripple” the agency’s ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Republicans said deficit cutting has to start somewhere, acknowledging that the total tab for EPA’s foreign grants program is minor. But Whitfield said the programs — such as a $400,000 program to study urban air quality in Indonesia and $141,000 to test swine manure — were frivolous when domestic infrastructure and economy need money.
“We can’t maintain our roads, bridges and domestic programs, but yet we have money to give China to study swine manure,” Whitfield said. “Something doesn’t smell right in this situation.”
Full The Hill article here.
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Paper shows solar activity at end of 20th century was the highest in 1200 years: Paper published in Living Reviews of Solar Physics
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New paper finds warming reduces monsoon intensity: ‘Finds the intensity of the winter monsoon in the S. China Sea has markedly decreased ‘over the last 24 years (1977–2000)’
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Prof. Stephan Lewandowsky believes satellite temps data ‘…yield precisely the same result…’ as ‘surface-based thermometers’ — But his claims challenged
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