ah, breath easier... a victory

We can all breath a little easier now (oh my, the fun of the pun) as clean air and the health of the Earth won a small victory yesterday. The President's "Clean Skies" bill failed to make it out of Committee.

Now, remember, this is the bill that doesn't do jack shit about carbon dioxide emissions, greenhouse gases, and nevermind that the vast majority of scientists and climatologists say that global warming is caused by the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere - this bill did not even address it in the slightest.

Sen. James Inhofe, fundy wingnut supremo (and the Committees chair!), had this to say:

"This bill has been killed by the environmental extremists who care more about continuing the litigation-friendly status quo and making a political statement about carbon dioxide than they do about reducing air pollution"

Hmmm. Well, he IS a former land developer and the former mayor of Tulsa... I mean, just because the scientific community says that global warming is real, that it's caused by greenhouse gases, I mean - shit - who are you gonna believe:

The scientists and their new fangled book learnin' or the ex mayor of Tulsa?