Copenhagen Commences
Posted on | December 7, 2009 | No Comments
Ah, Copenhagen. You’ve been getting all sorts of action this year, haven’t you? First you crush our hopes of having the Olympics in Chicago and now you gather our world leaders together via their 1,200 limos and 140 private planes … to a conference on the deleterious effects of pollution on our global climate. But I digress.
Today the EPA took the historical and bold step of announcing that man-made greenhouse gases – mainly carbon dioxide – are harmful to human health and the environment, and should be regulated. Conventional wisdom suggests that this announcement was timed to coincide with the beginning of the Copenhagen climate conference, or as it’s formally known, the COP15. And I’m OK with that, really, especially since it will lend momentum to climate legislation. Also, apparently the Republican party greeted the EPA’s announcement with a statement ridiculing them for suggesting that we place regulations on the “air that we exhale”. To which I say, perhaps if the Republicans didn’t spout off so much hot air in the first place we wouldn’t be in such trouble! (Ba-dum-pum… seriously am I the only one that thought of this joke?!)
I’ll try to keep up with news from Copenhagen and post it here as I see it… in the meantime, stay warm, folks!
Tags: carbon > efficient > emissions > energy > globalwarming > politics > sustainable
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