'chilling' climate change document - SUPRESSED

[Phred42]

Once again we have to learn about critical matters OUTSIDE of and in spite of the US Corporate Media.
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Democrats: White House must publish 'chilling' climate change document
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/25/carbonemissions.climatechange

Senator Barbara Boxer reveals details of a climate change document that the White House is refusing to make public

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The chairman of the Senate environment committee, California Democrat Barbara Boxer, released a summary of the proposal to reporters. Boxer was allowed to take notes on the plan but not given a copy. ( :mad: WTF!!!)

"Based on the evidence before him, the administrator believes it is reasonable to conclude current and future emissions of greenhouse gases will contribute to future climate change," the proposal stated.

"The US has a long and populous coastline," the EPA continued. "Sea level rise will continue and exacerbate storm surge flooding and coastline erosion … in areas where heat waves already occur, they are expected to be more intense, more frequent, and longer-lasting."

The EPA proposal also predicted that warming temperatures would lead to more wildfires in western US states and "additional strain" on already overtaxed water resources in the dry south-east and western regions.

...snip...

Boxer decried the White House's decision not to release the full EPA proposal to the public.

"It is clear. It is chilling. It is detailed," she said to colleagues yesterday. "That information belongs to the American people and we must get it to them. Then they will decide whether we should act to prevent this coming crisis or sit on our hands."

[livingon]

1. and LOOK---EPA is claiming 'executive privledge" !! --

Democrats asked the EPA administrator, Stephen Johnson, to testify next week at a hearing exploring allegations of White House obstruction on climate change. But Johnson refused, citing executive privilege and forcing the cancellation of the hearing.

"The American people are poorly served by an administration whose head of environmental protection cannot appear before a Senate committee and honestly discuss what he did and why he did it," senior Democrat Patrick Leahy said.

The next step may be holding Johnson in contempt of Congress, which would effectively move the dispute into the judicial system. White House chief of staff Josh Bolten and former Bush counsellor Karl Rove were found in contempt last year after refusing to cooperate with a different investigation, but their case has yet to move forward.

[Clovis Sangrail]

2. congress has rendered themselves impotent

and this is an example of the result

Democrats asked the EPA administrator, Stephen Johnson, to testify next week at a hearing exploring allegations of White House obstruction on climate change. But Johnson refused, citing executive privilege and forcing the cancellation of the hearing.

Had they aggressively pursued the first people for contempt this wouldn't be happening.
Now nobody in the executive is going to pay any attention to subpoenas.

[Phred42]

3. Congress - especially the Dems- have rendered themselves Members of the Reich

[LaurenG]

4. They think if they let it out a little at a time no one will notice

after all they have known how things were looking since the 90's. The new report will probably be released in snippets over the course of a year or so, if things go the way they normally do.

For instance they'll say 20,000 people could be affected, and a week later say, no make that 150,000 and then later still say, no we were misquoted we meant triple the previous number without giving the 150,000, but by that time no one will put the info together and will think nothing of it.

[Phred42]

5. Correct.