The Eco-Fight Rages On

Are you tired of the political fighting over global warming? We're told by environmentalists that (a) global warming is real, and (b) everybody knows it's caused by humans. The other side says (a) global warming is a hoax or based on a limited historical perspective, and (b) scientists with dissenting views are forced to shut up or lose government research grants.

Well now, the LA Times reports the US Chamber of Commerce is pushing to force the Environmental Protection Agency to hold public hearings on the validity of the science, before using the premise of man-made climate change as a basis to impose regulations which could severely impact US businesses.
 
William Kovacs, the chamber's senior VP for environment, technology and regulatory affairs tells the paper, "It would be evolution versus creationism. It would be the science of climate change on trial."
 
The EPA has another description - a waste of time. Spokesman Brendan Gilfillan says the agency's stand that global warming is a danger to public health is based, "...on the soundest peer-reviewed science available, which overwhelmingly indicates that climate change presents a threat to human health and welfare."

The two sides can't even agree on whether the effects would be bad or good. EPA says global warming will bring us more frequent heat waves, wildfires, degraded air quality and an increase in both droughts and floods. The chamber cites studies that predict higher temperatures will actually reduce mortality rates.
 
This could get interesting.

FMI: www.uschamber.com