The LA Times reported yesterday that the largest business lobby, the US Chamber of Commerce, is trying to mimic the Scopes-monkey trial by calling for a hearing regarding the legitamacy of human caused global warming and it's harmful effects on the human population.
Despite an overwhelming concensus among published papers and scientists, the US CoC wants to bring this issue up in court in hopes to create the illusion of "discord" among the scientific community, and ultimately allow their members to avoid paying higher taxes/fines regarding emmision and pollution standards.
The EPA, who is primed to initiate legislation that would make greenhouse gases regulatable under the Clean Air Act, has already called such a hearing a "waste of time", but the CoC may pursue this in a higher, federal court.
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Funny how the Chamber of Commerce actually CHOSE to compare themselves with "creationists" (not even doing themselves the favor of calling it the ever so slighly more progressive "intelligent design", nope. creationists). I mean, I'm all for global warming deniers making it clear to the public how ignorant they are, but this is just embarrassingly bad strategy.
ReplyDeleteSome decent commentary on this story here:
Haha, oops, I meant to link to this:
ReplyDeletehttp://climateprogress.org/2009/08/25/memo-to-alcoa-kodak-ibm-nike-pepsi-toyota-luddite-chamber-of-commerce-seeks-the-scopes-monkey-trial-global-warming/