Our anti-science Republican ideologue, Justice Scalia, said much more than the WaPo deigned to print. Don't know why they bother: just let the man blather on the national stage like he wants, don't bother attempting to burnish his idiocy.
From Chris Mooney's blog
The Intersection: Scalia Idiocy, Continued
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I've now seen the Supreme Court transcript and can provide actual passages of what Scalia said. It's even worse
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JUSTICE SCALIA: That's why I don't want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truthMR. MILKEY: Under the express words of the statute -- and this is 302(g) -- for something to be an air pollutant it has to be emitted into the ambient air or otherwise entered there.
JUSTICE SCALIA: Yes, and I agree with that. It is when it comes out an air pollutant. But is it an air pollutant that endangers health? I think it has to endanger health by reason of polluting the air, and this does not endanger health by reason of polluting the air at all.
MR. MILKEY: Your Honor, respectfully, I disagree, and there is nothing in the act that actually requires the harm to occur in the ambient air. In fact, some of the harm here does occur there.
JUSTICE SCALIA: Well, it talks about air pollution all the time. That's what the, that's what the thing is about, air pollution. It's not about global warming and it's not about the troposphere.
Tags: global_warming
