Two prominent climate scientists have taken on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new rules to reduce CO2 emissions in electricity generation, arguing in testimony that the regulations “will be disastrous for the country, without no scientifically justifiable reason”.
Citing extensive data (pdf) to support their case, William Happer, professor emeritus of physics at Princeton University, and Richard Lindzen, professor emeritus of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), argued that the claims used by the EPA to justify the new regulations is not based on scientific facts, but on political opinions and speculative models that have been consistently proven wrong.
“The unscientific method of analysis, which relies on consensus, peer review, government opinion, non-working models, data selection, and the omission of voluminous contradictory data, is commonly used in these studies and by EPA in the proposed rule,” said Mr. Happer and Mr. Lindzen stated. “None of the studies provide scientific knowledge and, therefore, none provide any scientific support for the proposed rule.”
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