In the times when global warming is the issue in every people’s mouth, with the help of their donors RAN frequently runs full page advertisements in national newspapers and magazines. The problem now is that we need solutions, awareness is no longer enough.
And RAN fights for solutions. And wins.
“Last Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Massachusetts v. EPA, produced what some are calling its most important environmental ruling in a generation, telling the EPA that unless it determines that global warming causes no harm, it must begin regulating CO2 emissions.
The case began with a lawsuit in 1999 by environmental groups, later joined by a number of states, asserting that under the authority of the Clean Air Act, the EPA had to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars. The auto industry then joined in the lawsuit, coming to EPA’s defense.
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers also brought a separate suit against California after the state passed its own law regulating CO2 emissions in 2002. The bill, AB 1493, sponsored by California Rep. Fran Pavley, requires new cars and trucks sold in California to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 22 percent by 2012 and 30 percent by 2016.
Detroit maintains that California has no right to make its own CO2 regulations because regulating CO2 has to mean regulating fuel economy and that is the prerogative of the Department of Transportation. On that basis, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers sued California and two states that adopted its regulations, Rhode Island and Vermont.”
April 9, 2007, Kelpie Wilson
Thank God for global warming! The mile thick ice sheet that used to sit on top of where my town is, melted and went away. I don’t know what I’d do if it were still there!
“telling the EPA that unless it determines that global warming causes no harm, it must begin regulating CO2 emissions.” Global warming is yet to be “proved” and yet these people can beg the question to pass a law controlling emissions.. am I missing something?
^accuracy in reasoning and knowledge of the facts and their ratio
global warming doesnt has to be proved , noone in their right mind is questioning that its happening, what you may want to say is the cause of global warming has not been proved, wich is defendable for now.altough… a majority of knowlegable people believe it has a strong correlation with co2 levels wich we raised by bringing vast amounts of carbon to the surface of the earth.
its pretty much like a smoking gun in a locked room, with only one person present
it may have gone off by itself, but not very likely
a recent paper showed that carbon levels rise and fall in the atomsphere all the time (shown by core samples from ice that dates back to before the industrial revolution), and the world is currently on a general rise. However, emissions aren’t helping, but there actually affect on the carbon levels is miminal.
But it is important to aim to reduce emission levels if only because of the chemicals added to the air that people have to breathe.
Carbon has a long residence time in the atmosphere, so the rate of addition of carbon each year due to humans does not have to be that high in order to have an impact. All it needs to do is change the system so that more carbon is added to the atmospheric pool than is removed from it each year. It’s just a matter of tipping the scales… and the additional carbon added to the atmosphere also makes the ocean more acidic, which leads to fun things like coral bleaching and other adverse impacts on our world’s oceans. Even without global warming, the threat to the ocean ecosystem is still significant.