{"id":525722,"date":"2010-04-13T08:05:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T12:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=22906"},"modified":"2010-04-13T08:05:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T12:05:32","slug":"virginia-ag-mocks-dangers-of-co2-telling-tea-partiers-to-hold-their-breath-and-make-the-epa-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525722","title":{"rendered":"Virginia AG mocks dangers of CO2, telling Tea Partiers to hold their breath and make the EPA happy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli attended the Powhatan Taxpayers\u2019 Alliance Tea Party rally to address his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/23\/AR2010032304224.html\">beloved base<\/a>.\u00a0 Think Progress has the <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/04\/12\/cuccinelli-hold-breath\/\">details<\/a> of his anti-science pandering:<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-22906\"><\/span>Cuccinelli reportedly greeted the crowd by saying that it was \u201cgreat to be with so many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-16143-Richmond-Republican-Examiner%7Ey2010m4d12-Cuccinelli-appears-at-Powhatan-Courthouse\">people who appreciate the Constitution<\/a>\u201d and then talked about his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whsv.com\/home\/headlines\/89749127.html\">challenge<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2010\/02\/18\/virginia-climatologist-conspiracy\/\">Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s conclusion<\/a> that greenhouse gases should be regulated under the Clean Air Act. In particular, the crowd loved when he made fun of the EPA and joked that they could hold their breath for a few seconds and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-16143-Richmond-Republican-Examiner%7Ey2010m4d12-Cuccinelli-appears-at-Powhatan-Courthouse\">make the EPA \u201chappy\u201d<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Attorney General\u2019s office is a very reactive office. We wouldn\u2019t be suing the EPA if the EPA did not abandon all semblance of science and law to put out its endangerment finding on the CO2. <strong>Now, let\u2019s make them all happy just for a moment and everybody just hold your breath,\u201d Cuccinelli waited several seconds before saying \u201cThere you go, just a short period of time with no CO2. Now the trees are going protest but at least the EPA will be happy\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cuccinelli is a full-on global warming disinfomer, saying that climate change is \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2010\/02\/18\/virginia-climatologist-conspiracy\/\">unverifiable and doctored<\/a>\u201d science. However, environmental and energy groups in Virginia are <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2010\/02\/18\/virginia-climatologist-conspiracy\/\">increasingly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/03\/27\/virginians-cuccinelli\/\">pushing back<\/a> on Cuccinelli\u2019s attempts to dismantle regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to Refuting state AG\u2019s anti-science petition, Virginia climate scientists see \u201cgreat risk\u201d from greenhouse gases\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/02\/21\/refuting-state-ags-anti-science-petition-virginia-climate-scientists-see-great-risk-from-greenhouse-gases\/\">Refuting state AG\u2019s anti-science petition, Virginia climate scientists see \u201cgreat risk\u201d from greenhouse gases<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to Cuccinelli\u2019s climate denial lawsuits could junk auto industry\u2019s recovery\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/04\/07\/cuccinelli%e2%80%99s-climate-denial-lawsuits-could-junk-auto-industry%e2%80%99s-recovery\/\">Cuccinelli\u2019s climate denial lawsuits could junk auto industry\u2019s recovery<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 id=\"post-19583\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to Refuting state AG\u2019s anti-science petition, Virginia climate scientists see \u201cgreat risk\u201d from greenhouse gases\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/02\/21\/refuting-state-ags-anti-science-petition-virginia-climate-scientists-see-great-risk-from-greenhouse-gases\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli attended the Powhatan Taxpayers\u2019 Alliance Tea Party rally to address his beloved base.\u00a0 Think Progress has the details of his anti-science pandering: Cuccinelli reportedly greeted the crowd by saying that it was \u201cgreat to be with so many people who appreciate the Constitution\u201d and then talked about his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}