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2010-08-03 Science & Technology

EPA Ignores Protests; Will Control Carbon

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Posted by Bobby 2010-08-03 06:27|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 Congress can amend the statutes regulating what the EPA can and can't do at any time they wish. These protests should be directed to Congress & expressed at the ballot box.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-08-03 08:15|| 2010-08-03 08:15|| Front Page Top

#2 I've had a subscription to National Geographic for 35 years, and I'm actually considering canceling it because of the way they are ignoring the discrediting of global warming.
It used to be an occasional article which could be over looked but they are becoming increasingly shrill just like the rest of the loonies.

Posted by NCMike 2010-08-03 08:21|| 2010-08-03 08:21|| Front Page Top

#3 I read an article on Israel in NG a few years ago. It was so slanted that I would have cancelled the subscription based on that alone -- but the subscription was paid by my doctor's office, so their balance sheet remained safe. They did a big write-up on Afghanistan more recently, complete with the poster-sized maps they do so well. Again, party line, despite the gorgeous photos. I wouldn't have known, had I not been a loyal Rantburger.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-08-03 10:36|| 2010-08-03 10:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Family had a long, continuous tradition of taking National Geographic, from early 50's (grandparents), through 70's (parents), until a few years ago, when I dropped it for being too much politics and not enough science. Great maps and pretty pictures just weren't enough.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-08-03 10:39|| 2010-08-03 10:39|| Front Page Top

#5 when I dropped it for being too much politics and not enough science

Same problem with Scientific American, which now has as many non-science articles as science ones.

Can anyone recommend an excellent, reasonably highbrow science publication for laymen that is NOT infected with heavy political bias? Open to anything in English or French at this point. Russian too, if such a journal exists.

Posted by lex 2010-08-03 10:44|| 2010-08-03 10:44|| Front Page Top

#6 I'll second that lex. I dropped SA for exactly those reasons a couple opf years ago.

Posted by Hellfish 2010-08-03 12:28|| 2010-08-03 12:28|| Front Page Top

#7 I gave up on SA, too, but still get Discover. Not quite as high-brow...

Posted by Bobby 2010-08-03 12:44|| 2010-08-03 12:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Tree huggers now run the EPA with the support of tax and spend politicians who see a different kind of green potential, your money going to them. The conspirators have got it all worked out.

Posted by Hupoting Fillmore9546 2010-08-03 13:36|| 2010-08-03 13:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Lex, the best thing I can do is recommend "Watts up with That?", an online "magazine" that deals primarily with climate, but digresses into other science quite frequently. There are NO print magazines that are even halfway as honest as WUWT. They've been voted "the best science news site on the Web" for the second year in a row. Lots of top-named "skeptics" contribute articles there, and the readership is about as diverse as Rantburg.

Posted by Old Patriot 2010-08-03 15:48|| 2010-08-03 15:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Watts Up is also on a slant but with the opposite slope of SA. Watts Up still views the news primarily from a scientific view, not ideological as does SA, but it still has a slant. New Scientist is in the middle.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-08-03 16:18|| 2010-08-03 16:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Liberals, the new aristocracy or autacracy if things continue the way they've been.

Posted by miscellaneous 2010-08-03 16:53|| 2010-08-03 16:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Shut up peons. Swallow hard and like it. We don't really care if you like it. Just shut up you are getting it anyway.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-08-03 17:23|| 2010-08-03 17:23|| Front Page Top

#13 Ditto immigration. It is another piece of stealth ~~law~~ underhanded crud through the executive branch.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-08-03 17:25|| 2010-08-03 17:25|| Front Page Top

#14 The left is always ready to quote Eisenhower on the 'military industrial complex' but has also buried what immediately followed that quote -

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-08-03 17:48|| 2010-08-03 17:48|| Front Page Top

#15 The NG article on Israel several years back was the final straw for me. Cancelled and never looked back.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2010-08-03 18:16|| 2010-08-03 18:16|| Front Page Top

#16 Thanks, Mods, for corrrecting the yellow highlight on the first paragraph. I was momentarily confused between re-writing and commenting. After it went up, I decided it shoulda been yellow.

Posted by Bobby 2010-08-03 18:25|| 2010-08-03 18:25|| Front Page Top

#17 The EPA has come a long way since Nixon set them up to protect bald eagles. Hopefully the new Republican House will defund them in January. Obama will veto any attempt to eliminate the agency, but he can't force Congress to appropriate money to pay for it.

Posted by rwv 2010-08-03 18:41|| 2010-08-03 18:41|| Front Page Top

#18 Then watch the usual suspect use the ~~aristocracy~~ judiciary to dictate to Congress to appropriate the money. At that point the Constitution is all but a relic in word.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-08-03 19:24|| 2010-08-03 19:24|| Front Page Top

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