Sentences with phrase «endangerment finding largely»
The EPA's stance, however, was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2007, and one of the first actions of Lisa Jackson, the new EPA administrator under the Obama administration, was to declare CO2 and other greenhouse gases a threat to public health and welfare and release a proposed endangerment finding largely built on the earlier ignored analysis.
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«The messages of the two points outlined in the extract above are: (1) the claims about increases in frequency and intensity of extreme events are generally not supported by actual observations and, (2) official information about climate science is largely controlled by agencies through (a) funding choices for research and (b) by the carefullyselected (i.e. biased) authorship of reports such as the EPA Endangerment Finding and the National Climate Assessment.»
Unfortunately for the EPA, a major pillar of support of the Endangerment Finding — that «most» of the «observed warming» since the mid-20th century is from greenhouse gas emissions from human activities — has been shown by recent scientific research in major peer - reviewed scientific journals to be largely in doubt.