My Response To The EPA Hearings This Week
Posted on June 20, 2014 by stevengoddard
In one corner, we had very organized and well scripted Democrats pushing mindless dishonest global warming propaganda. On the other side (with a few exceptions) we had clueless, disarmed Republicans mumbling incoherently against the EPA regulations.
The Democrats had numerous present and former EPA administrators verbally backing up their claims. The major claims were :
- 97% of scientists agree that global warming is real, imminent and dangerous
- Heatwaves are becoming more common
- Severe weather is becoming more common and extreme
- Sea level is rising due to global warming and threatens coastal regions
There isn’t one shred of evidence to support the idea that most scientists believe global warming is imminent and dangerous. The Democrats tack those words on to a completely benign (and obvious) finding that most scientists believe humans influence the climate. It is beyond my comprehension why Republicans repeatedly let them get away with that.
The EPA’s own data shows that heatwaves are not becoming more common in the US, and peaked 80 years ago.
 
Heat waves in the 1930s remain the most severe heat waves in the U.S. historical record (see Figure 1).
High and Low Temperatures | Climate Change | US EPA
The Republicans could have discredited the EPA administrators by simply showing this graph, which is prominently displayed on the EPA web site.
Extreme weather is not becoming more common or more severe. Obama’s presidency has seen the fewest US hurricane strikes of any president since at least 1850. There have been three US hurricane strikes since Obama took office, compared to twenty-six while Grover Cleveland was president.
HURDAT Re-analysis Chronological List of All Hurricanes
The last two years have had the lowest number of US tornadoes on record.
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The frequency of severe tornadoes peaked forty years ago.
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All US short term rainfall records were set a long time ago.
Weather Extremes : What is the Most Rain to Ever Fall in One Minute or One Hour? | Weather Underground
There isn’t one shred of legitimate evidence to back up the claim that the weather is becoming more extreme.
As far as sea level goes, it has been rising for 20,000 years, and is 400 feet higher now than it was when the first Americans walked across the Bering Strait from Asia.
File:Post-Glacial Sea Level.png – Global Warming Art
More recent observations of sea level show that there is no human influence. Sea level on the East Coast (blue below) appears to have been rising at a steady rate since the start of measurements in 1850. It shows no acceleration as CO2 increased, indicating that there is no human influence on sea level.
On the west coast (red below) sea level rise rates are much lower, indicating that what is being observed on the East Coast is land sinking, rather than oceans rising.
None of the scary Democrat/EPA claims are backed by evidence, and are nothing more than carefully planned, well versed propaganda – yet the Republicans remain incapable of mounting a coherent response. If the Republicans were educated and organized, they would be able to shut this scam down in a matter of days. |
