The GOP climate denial, coupled with political control achieved after the last legislative elections, it becomes increasingly worrisome. Yesterday, the Energy Committee of the U.S. Congress, controlled by Republicans, voted a bill to prohibit the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases. Before the adoption of the bill, Republicans rejected block three amendments submitted by congressional Democrats asked to acknowledge in the text that climate change is a scientific reality. The same guys who want to teach creationism in schools Instead of the theory of evolution, yes, those same .
The amendments sought to include in the bill the findings of studies of the EPA on global warming. The first read (translations are mine) that "warming of the climate system is inequícovo, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air temperature and sea, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising sea \u200b\u200blevel. "
The second called for recognition that "public health of present generations are in danger and that the risk to public health of current and future generations will likely increase over time if greenhouse gases continue to accumulate in the atmosphere and result in even higher rates of climate change. "The third, also rejected, included a reference to anthropogenic global warming.
Project bill approved yesterday will prevent the EPA to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases from power plants and factories, as proposed by Barack Obama in 2009 . The EPA found that emissions of greenhouse gases were within its competence under the premise that threaten human health and the environment, but with this law, the Agency may not impose new regulations to control emissions. For the Republicans, new restrictions on emissions of greenhouse gases would increase the price of energy, the economy and stifle job creation complicate.
El Presidente Obama ya avisó de que vetaría cualquier iniciativa que intentara limitar la autoridad de la EPA, aunque no está muy claro lo que podrá hacer cuando la Propuesta de Ley se vote en el Congreso. De cualquier modo, es desolador comprobar cómo la postura del Partido Republicano frente al cambio climático no sólo no ha mejorado desde que Bush salió del poder, sino que se está radicalizando, seguramente por culpa de la creciente influencia de los ultras del Tea Party. Que la política climática de la mayor potencia del mundo esté influenciada por personajes tan ignorantes e irresponsables como los líderes del Tea Party asusta, y mucho. Estamos en un momento crítico en la combating climate change, and we can not afford to fall behind the United States.
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