King County Prosecutor Fighting Climate Change

Politics

The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office detailed in their latest e-mail update that they are “advocates for Clean Air and Reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions.” The civil division of the PAO has been “litigating and advising County agencies on an important, developing climate change situation.”

Recently, in an amicus brief filed in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the PAO “supported California’s argument that it should be permitted to enact auto emissions standards that are more stringent than the minimum national standards and that doing so is consistent with the Clean Air Act.”

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MEYERS: Global Warming Activists Ignore the Science they Claim to Support

Opinion

When discussing global warming, one phrase recurs: “scientific consensus.” Environmental activists often cite “science” when arguing for far-reaching and costly responses to global warming. Ironically, however, those activists ignore the findings of that same science. The potential impacts they cite are based not on science but on speculation which contradicts the actual science.

The list of errors is very long.

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