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  The two lawyers can post anything they want under free speech, they just can't use their official EPA positions to further their "cause". Without their official positions being cited, it becomes just one more unmemorable climate change rant. These two clowns are attorneys, have received ethics training up the wazoo over the years, and knew exactly what they were doing. Since they are close to retirement age, I figure they just wanted to land some work afterwards and this was a good way to market themselves. ("Whistle blower" laws protect people who rat out the system about SPECIFIC wrongdoing. Not general policy type disagreements like this.) All this government ethics stuff can be found at: http://www.oge.gov/ Now with any other profession, folks might be more understanding. But lawyers (LAWYERS!) trying to weasal out of this one? Forget it. Lawyers make a living "encouraging" compliance with the law. And these two then proceeded to completely flout it.On EPA demands attorneys remove video critical of cap-and-trade posted 1 week, 1 day ago 28 Responses

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  Uh, these attorneys knew exactly what they were doing. The ethics guidelines are very clear on this one. If what you are saying depends on using your official position to establish credibility, you can't do it.On EPA demands attorneys remove video critical of cap-and-trade posted 1 week, 1 day ago 28 Responses

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  I think this legislation has so many caveats and loopholes that it will be business as usual.  Taxes will go up, CO2 will continue to rise, temperature over the next ten years anyone's guess, and the poor take it in the shorts.

  I love democracy!

  On House passes landmark climate and clean-energy bill posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago 10 Responses

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  recordhop - glad you brought up mercury.  It is really as bad as the enviros say ... so why exactly are we putting a zillion compact fluorescents in homes?  All with mercury?

  LED's are expensive, but extraordinarily efficient and long-lived.  Since enviros don't seem to have any problem with lots of uneconomic energy sources (solar, wind, electric vehicles, etc.) I don't understand why they did not embrace LED's from the get go.

  In regards to sea level, ports already adapt to the tides that rise and fall by many feet (and often more) twice a day.  Ports are at sea level precisely because they have to moor ships and load/unload them at sea level.  Since sea level is changing (either rising or falling), ports would have to be adapting anyway.  Over the course of a hundred years, a rise of a foot or so isn't hard to deal with.

  On The Climate Post: Waxman-Markey, Bonn, and carbon counting posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago 6 Responses

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  There are winners and losers in climate change.  The US, Canada, Russia, and Northern Europe make out well with global warming.  The third world toilets?  Well, no one will notice any difference either way.

  On Global warming did NOT cause this plane crash posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago 7 Responses