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Myron Ebell [Myron.Ebell@cei.org] 7/24/2017 3:46:06 PM Myron Ebell [Myron.Ebell@cei.org] Correction: Cooler Heads Coalition announcements and events
Note correction in bold and underlined: The Environmental Protection Agency is holding a public hearing on its proposed volume requirements for the Renewable Fuel Standard in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, 1st August. People who wish to testify in person must sign up by tomorrow, 25th July, here. Questions may be sent to macallister.iulia@epa.gov. The EPA is also accepting written statements. I can send briefing points to anyone interested in testifying or submitting a statement.
From: Myron Ebell Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 11:36 AM To: 'mebell@cei.org' <mebell@cei.org> Subject: Cooler Heads Coalition announcements and events
The Cooler Heads Coalition will not meet in August.
Three items of interest:
1) Press release on a new study on surface temperature data and the Endangerment Finding--pasted below.
2) The Environmental Protection Agency is holding a public hearing on its proposed volume requirements for the Renewable Fuel Standard in Washington, DC, on 1st August. People who wish to testify in person must sign up by 25thAugust here. Questions may be sent to macallister. iulia@epa. gov. The EPA is also accepting written statements. I can send briefing points to anyone interested in testifying or submitting a statement.
3) AEI is holding yet another event on Wednesday at 3 PM to promote the WhitehouseSchatz carbon tax bill. I have pasted the invitation below. I'm one of the panelists, so I hope you'll be able to attend! Rsvp or watch online here.
American Enterprise Institute
Carbon taxes: A problem or a solution? Remarks from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI)
Wednesday, July 26, 2017 | 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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RSVP or watch online at fattp://www.aei.org/events/earboi-tai.es-a-probiem-0r-a-solutioB" reiii!irkS"frc)!HseiisfaeidoiiwliitelM)iiseTMil"riTM!iiMiTMseii"bri!iii"Scli!ite"ClIii/
The debate over whether the US should implement a carbon tax is both highly important and highly controversial. Supporters of a carbon tax argue that it would be the most efficient way of addressing climate change and implementing broader fiscal reform, while opponents suggest it would harm the economy and have almost no effect on the climate.
Please join AEI at this event assessing the merits and pitfalls of a US carbon tax. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Brian Schatz (D-HI) will unveil their own carbon tax proposal, and panelists will debate the implications of such a proposal.
Join the conversation on social media by following @AEI and @AEIecon on Twitter and Facebook.
If you are unable to attend, we welcome you to watch the event live on this page. Full video will be posted within 24 hours.
Agenda
2:45 PM Registration
3:00 PM Introduction: Aparna Mathur, AEI
3:05 PM Keynote address: Sheldon Whitehouse, US Senate (D-RI)
3:15 PM Keynote address: Brian Schatz, US Senate (D-HI)
3:25 PM Q&A
3:45 PM Panel discussion
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Participants: Vronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center Myron Ebell, Competitive Enterprise Institute George Frampton, Partnership for Responsible Growth Adele Morris, Brookings Institution Moderator: Aparna Mathur, AEI 4:15 PM Q&A 4:30 PM Adjournment
Event Contact Information
For more information, please contact Isabelle Staff at IsabeUe.staff@ad.org, 202.862.5885
Media Contact Information
For media inquiries or to register a camera crew, please contact MediaServices@aei.org, 202.862.5829
PRESS RELEASE
Electricity Consumers File New Study in Their Call for EPA to Reopen its Endangerment Finding
Key Points:
1. Just Released, new research findings demonstrate that adjustments by government agencies to the global average surface temperature (GAST) record render that record totally inconsistent with published credible temperature data sets and useless for any policy purpose.
2. The new results invalidate the claims based on GAST data of "record warming" in recent
years, and thereby also invalidate the so-called "lines of evidence" on which EPA claimed to base its 2009 C02 Endangerment Finding.
3. If the Endangerment Finding is not vacated, whether the current administration likes it or
not, it is certain that electric utility, automotive and many other industries will face ongoing EPA CO2 regulation.
4 . This scientifically illiterate regulation will raise U.S. energy prices thereby reducing
economic growth and jobs.
July 24, 2017
The Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council announces that on July 6, 2017 it filed with EPA a Second Supplement to the Council's January 20, 2017 Petition asking the Agency to reconsider the scientifically invalid Endangerment Finding on which all Obama-era greenhouse gas regulations are based. The Second Supplement to Petition may be found at: https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2017/Q7/ef-gastdata-secondsupplementtopetitionfinal.pdf
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The Council's original Petition (see https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2017/Q4/ef--ep8-petitionforreconsiderationof-ef~final~i.pdf) and First Supplement to Petition (see https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/ef-checc-suppFpfr--of--ef05Q817-final.pdf) demonstrated that the Endangerment Finding is nothing more than assumptions that have each been disproved by the most relevant empirical evidence from the real world. The original Petition was substantially based on a major peerreviewed 2016 scientific paper by James Wallace, John Christy and Joseph D'Aleo (Wallace 2016) that analyzed the best available temperature data sets and "failed to find that the steadily rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations have had a statistically significant impact on any of the 13 critically important tropical and global temperature time series data sets analyzed." The full text of Wallace 2016 may be found at: https://fhsresearch.fiSes.wordpress.com/2016/Q9/ef-cpp-sc-2018-data-ths-paoer-ex-sum-Q90518v2.pdf.
The First Supplement to Petition was substantially based on a new April 2017 peer reviewed scientific paper,
also from the same authors (Wallace 2017A). Wallace 2017A can be found
at: https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/efdata-resear
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Wallace 2017A concluded that once impacts of natural factors such as solar, volcanic and ENSO
activity are accounted for, there is no "natural factor adjusted" warming remaining to be attributed to rising
atmospheric CO2 levels.
The Second Supplement to the Petition now relies on a third new major peer reviewed scientific paper from James Wallace, Joseph D'Aleo and Craig Idso, published in June 2017 (Wallace 2017B). Wallace 2017B analyzes the GAST data issued by U.S. agencies NASA and NOAA, as well as British group Hadley CRU. In this research report past changes in the previously reported historical data are quantified. It was found that each new version of GAST has nearly always exhibited a steeper warming linear trend over its entire history. And, this result was nearly always accomplished by each entity systematically removing the previously existing cyclical temperature pattern. This was true for all three entities providing GAST data measurement, NOAA, NASA and Hadley CRU.
The Second Supplement to Petition states:
Adjustments that impart an ever-steeper upward trend in the data by removing the natural cyclical temperature patterns present in the data deprive the GAST products from NOAA, NASA and Hadley CRU of the credibility required for policymaking or climate modeling, particularly when they are relied on to drive trillions of dollars in expenditures.
The invalidation of the adjusted GAST data knocks yet another essential pillar out from under the lines of evidence that are the claimed foundation of the Endangerment Finding. As the Second Supplement to Petition states:
It is therefore inescapable that if the official GAST data from NOAA, NASA and Hadley CRU are invalid, then both the "basic physical understanding" of climate and the climate models will also be invalid.
The scientific invalidity of the Endangerment Finding becomes more blindingly obvious and undeniable with each day's accumulation of reliable empirical data. It is time for an honest and rigorous scientific re-evaluation of this Obama-era political document. The nation has been taken down a tragically foolish path of pointless regulations and wasteful mal-investments to "solve" a problem which does not actually exist. Our leaders must summon the courage to acknowledge the truth and act accordingly.
The Council brought its Petition because the Obama-era greenhouse gas regulations threaten, as President Obama himself conceded, to make the price of electricity "skyrocket." All Americans will benefit from a new era where the cheapest sources of energy can also compete and prevail in the marketplace.
Media Contacts:
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