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Another misleading headline is something that will help divide those debating environmental concerns and the relative merits of propsals attributed to the scientific community. It needs to be written again that blindly adopting every proposed solution to protect the environment is as damaging as complete dismissal of every concern expressed on the condition and future of that same environment.

In the article below, the headline reads as if the entire public and Congress are demanding emissions laws. And yet in the first and second paragraphs of the article several vaguely defined categories of possible organizations are defined by the author as a new coalition, not the public and Congress deamanding new laws.

Later on this same page of a site called ‘Down to Earth’ self-described as science and environment online describes its understanding of the roles of Seantor Barbara Boxer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi on matters of the environment. As the chair of the committee on Environment and Public Works there are indications that like this particular online environmental publication, Senator Barbara Boxer will push her personal environmental agenda along without any consideration of whether it is an intelligent course of action or not. As written before, just as damaging as entirely dismissing all envrionmental concerns

Public, Congress demand emission laws in US

SUNITA DUBEY
The US Congress is finally taking climate change seriously, with the Democrats, who are in control, reversing the existing policy of denial. The change has galvanised environmental groups. Business groups, including large corporations, have joined hands with bodies like the Natural Resource Defense Council, Environmental Defense, World Resources Institute and Pew Center for Climate Change.

This new coalition is now demanding national legislation to curb greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions to mitigate the effects of global warming.

And as if muddying the environmental debate wasn’t enough, Senator Barbara Boxer along with her esteemed colleagues is on a revival of sorts to muddy more waters. We do not believe we can address this situation more clearly than has already been done by George Will. An excerpt of his opinion is provided below as well as the link to the entire piece. I will simply add that this additional meaningless non-issue campaign merely distracts attention from the real issues which is a politician’s most frequently used tactic to get nothing meaningful accomplished. I guess this means we can add Rep Carolyn Maloney to the Women in Politics series on this blog.

Newest equality amendment resurrects a familiar bad idea

4/5/2007 8:02:24 AM

GEORGE WILL
WASHINGTON — Liberals, dolled up in love beads and bell-bottom trousers, have had another bright idea, one as fresh as other 1970s fads.

Sens. Ted Kennedy and Barbara Boxer and Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerrold Nadler, high-octane liberals all, have asked Congress to improve the Constitution by adding the Women’s Equality Amendment, which, like the Equal Rights Amendment before it, says: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”

As I have lamented on this blog before, please Lord, make it stop.

Stanford Matthews
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