CNSNews.com) – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforced nearly $500,000 in fines and mandatory “environmental projects” on a school bus contractor for “excessive idling,” and as part of its anti-idling campaign to reduce the carbon footprint of school buses waiting to pick up children for their routes.
...Also referenced is California’s 2003 anti-idling regulation that bus drivers must to turn off their vehicle within 100 feet of a school and must not turn the bus back on more than 30 seconds before beginning to depart – or face a minimum penalty of $100.
The EPA suggests purchasing block engine pre-heaters, which cost approximately $1,200 to $1,500 each, to reduce idling and warm up engines and passenger compartments during colder months. Also available are Compartment/Engine Block Heaters that cost approximately $2,300 to $2,500. [Hat tip: Mark]
What appeared to get the goat of the British retired-banker-turned-climate-”skeptic” is the American scientist’s statement that most of those people dismissing climate change do so “for ideological or political reasons, not for scientific reasons.”
The quote, attributed to Colorado State Atmospheric Science Professor Scott Denning and taken from a Yale Forum post April 5, is not in question. Denning stands by it and says that he has had talks “with literally thousands of people who don’t ‘believe’ in climate change …. Nearly all of them have been opposed almost entirely on ideological rather than scientific grounds.”
“This is not hearsay,” Denning wrote in an e-mail to Douglas E. Keenan of London. “It’s simply been my personal experience.”
High levels of climate concern, bounded by costs of managing climate risks, characterize much of the Muslim world, with interesting differences from the West on the science/religion relationship … and with a preference for viewing climate change through a broader prism of global environmental concerns.
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