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Related: About this forumThis congressman doesn’t want a federal science board to be allowed to consider science
Last year, the House of Representatives passed two absurd anti-science bills, the Secret Science Reform Act and the EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act. It will come as no surprise that both bills, under the guise of reform, would have the practical effect of crippling the EPAs efforts to assess science in a fair and timely way. I dont have the heart to get into it follow the links above for the details.
The bills are back; the House considered them both again yesterday. Emily Atkin has the gory details if youre interested. They might get a little further this time the Democratic Senate didnt take them up last year, obviously, but the GOP-controlled Senate might this year though it wont matter in the end, as Obama has threatened to veto both. So its mainly yet another act of reactionary symbolism from the right.
All that is by way of background so I can draw your attention to a hilarious amendment attached to the Science Advisory Board bill. It comes by way of the bills sponsor, Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.), a far-right, coal-country, climate-denying conservative of the old school.
Heres the amendment. Its sole purpose is to prohibit the EPAs Science Advisory Board from taking into consideration, for any purpose, the following reports:
the U.S. Global Change Research Programs National Climate Assessment
the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report
the May 2013 Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive Order No. 12866 (which I wrote about here)
the July 2014 Pathways to Deep Decarbonization Report, from the Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (which I wrote about here)
more
http://grist.org/politics/this-congressman-doesnt-want-a-federal-science-board-to-be-allowed-to-consider-science/
Next they will propose that federal agencies not use the terms 'climate change' and 'global warming', just like they have done in Florida...
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This congressman doesn’t want a federal science board to be allowed to consider science (Original Post)
n2doc
Mar 2015
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Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)1. What irritates me most these days
is that they can't even be bothered to pretend they understand science, or that it exists outside of the bounds of finding new ways of making money.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)2. What state will be the first to be declared unfit for human habitation?
My money's on WV.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)3. None, so long as there is a buck to be made.
Doesn't matter how toxic or hazardous they make it.